This panel discussion will focus on journalism education in Africa and beyond, and feature insights from a UNESCO project to define and implement standards of excellence in journalism education across...

For way too long now, mainstream media in the Global South--particularly in Asia and Africa--has underreported and often misreported the identities, stories and issues of LGBTQIA+ persons. The coverag...

This session will provide you with a blueprint for tackling women’s under-representation in your own news organisations and so enable you to generate: (1) journalism that attracts and keeps women au...

Creating a podcast audience in the Global South is considered one to be one of the holy grails of podcasting right now. This session will hear from people who are already doing it and ask what the cha...

Global efforts to sustain journalism as a public good have increased in urgency in parallel with escalating pandemic-era threats. Newspaper sales in low- and middle-income countries have been particul...

Local journalism: most disrupted, most urgently in need of assistance. Yet it’s the sector that’s laying down the bedrock for the new, stronger media ecosystem that meets their community needs. Th...

A long line of political leaders in our contemporary world share a common hatred of freedom of expression, of the free press and indeed of journalism itself. The term "fake news" discredits and challe...

Yes, hype around deepfakes and other synthetic media manipulation is extensive. But there is also an underlying reality that technology trends combined with trends in weaponization of media indicate t...

Dramatic shifts in the media landscape over the past two decades — including the advent of social media, the rise of participatory audiences, and what the Journalism Innovation Project calls “plat...

Journalism is thriving in Africa! Journalists and media organizations are finding ways to adapt to the changing landscape, with more or less financial success but with innovation, creativity, and pass...