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The path to impact: insights from global majority newsrooms. Report for the World and Columbia University (SIPA) have just launched The Path to Impact: Insights from Global Majority Newsrooms, an impact report highlighting the global impact of local journalism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. The new Report for Impact website has also been unveiled. Preethi Nallu and Anya Schiffrin will be #ijf25 speakers
Changing cultural biases: the 51 Percent’s Annette Young on how everyone stands to benefit from gender equity. “I like to think it’s our job to make the unfamiliar, familiar; to challenge those cultural biases that we all have about the role of women in society.” Annette Young will be a #ijf25 speaker
The tug-of-war between Trump and the press. The media is vulnerable to Trump’s attacks. But that doesn’t mean it’s powerless. Jon Allsop will be a #ijf25 speaker
Nieman Fellows honor +972 Magazine with Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. In making their selection, the Nieman Fellows recognized +972 Magazine — whose mission is to provide in-depth reporting “from the ground in Israel-Palestine” — for work that illuminates the complexity of life and politics in the region. Journalists from +972 Magazine will feature in the following three festival sessions: Local Call: independent journalism in Israel after 7 October 2023 and Espionage, abuse of AI and torture in broad daylight: groundbreaking investigations that can change the world and No Other Land.
Will the future of fact-checking flourish or founder? 2025 marks a new turning point. Now is the time for action to protect the work that holds the line on reality. Angie Drobnic Holan will be a #ijf25 speaker
The broken rung is a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. A new book by McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez explains how to move up the corporate ladder and reach your full potential at work.
The Gaza Project. More than 40 journalists from 12 different media outlets participated in this new collaborative investigation. “We had to do it,” Hoda Osman, executive editor at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), said. “More journalists have been killed. There was a brief pause during the cease-fire but it resumed. Each case deserves an investigation.” Hoda Osman will be a #ijf25 speaker
A guide to empowering everyone in media organisations to drive meaningful innovation. The bulk of decisions and ideas in news organisations are usually made by leadership and other senior staff. Yet there are more non-leadership and non-senior staff in newsrooms. What’s happening to their ideas? Khalil Cassimally will be a #ijf25 speaker
Keynote: shaping tomorrow. I was invited to give the opening address at the Publix and European Press Prize event Shaping Tomorrow: Collective Efforts for the Future of Journalism on 12 March 2025. Shirish Kulkarni will be a #ijf25 speaker
Banned Russian channel RT secretly pays video bloggers who promote Kremlin narratives. The bloggers rack up millions of views, promote Russia as a haven for conservatives, glorify the war in Ukraine — and never disclose any ties to the Russian government. The money tells a different story
Investigating clandestine gold mines, deforestation, and corporate misconduct: the reporter who made the Amazon his beat. One of the leading environmental investigative journalists in Brazil is Hyury Potter, a freelance reporter who recently won the Pulitzer Center’s Breakthrough Journalism Award
Spyware attacks on BIRN Serbia journalists further deepen press freedom crisis. IPI and MFRR condemn confirmed spyware attacks against two journalists from Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
Image credit: screenshot from the title page of the report The path to impact: insights from global majority newsrooms