The weaponisation of nostalgia is a pernicious trend infecting democratic deliberation and affecting the outcome of elections around the world. ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation project has tracked thi...

Over 18 months after the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 and following the massacre in Gaza, Israeli society perseveres at its wilful ignorance. With the death toll in the pummelled Strip at a frighte...

The existential crisis confronting independent media globally continues to worsen. Traditional business models continue to unravel and new ones can’t fill the gap. International aid and philanthropi...

Journalism's economic crisis grows ever deeper for thousands of media globally, and worse hit are those in the majority world. Following a two-year deep dive into regional perspectives in Latin Americ...

This presentation will delve into the critical transformations required in journalism to better align with the pressing needs of the Global South. It will address the following key issues: > Botto...

From South Africa, to Indonesia, to Pakistan, 2024 will be a year of pivotal elections that will have global ramifications for democracy. Extra attention will be paid to two elections in particular as...

When Maria Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside Russian journalist Dimitry Muratov, it was the first time the practice of journalism had been honoured by the Nobel Committee since 1...

The Facebook Journalism Project and the Google News Initiative’s era of dominance in the news industry, at least in its most recent iteration, has ended. Facebook has divorced itself from news, shut...

2024 will bring more voters to the polls than ever in history, with elections planned in at least 64 countries, many of them in key global south countries with fragile information ecosystems. Technolo...

This panel presents the first insights from the new global research project Disarming Disinformation, which has seen researchers embedded in multiple international newsrooms to study their responses t...