In an increasingly interconnected world, it is hard to exaggerate the outsize impact of technology on people and policies in our communities. However, most tech journalism is Western-led, focused o...
Yasir Khan
As Editor-in-Chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Yasir Khan heads up the Foundation’s digital news platform Context and its global team of award-winning journalists covering the impacts of climate, socio-economic inequality and technology on societies around the world.
Prior to this, Yasir held leadership roles at Euronews as Editor-in-Chief of Digital Platforms and at Al Jazeera English as Head of Digital Video and Podcasts. He has also taught journalism and documentary filmmaking at the American University in Cairo, Northwestern University and the Jordan Media Institute.
Events IJF 2024
If your newsroom is still covering climate as a beat, you have some fixes to make. The climate crisis is now the biggest story in the world and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. It impac...
Building communities around critical beats: the role of local journalists across the globe
This interactive presentation showcases the work of public interest journalism across the globe around critical beat reporting such as the environment, climate change, labor markets, gender issues, co...
Growth: what are the big levers, and what muscles do organisations need to pull them?
Growth is the core common challenge for the media industry. While Covid brought a welcome boost in audiences and subscriptions, it is clear that ‘what got us here won’t get us there’. Covid-era ...
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...
In the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, it's more important than ever that journalists and their employers understand what they’re getting into when using the social media...
Covering migration towards Europe offers a variety of possibilities for alternative narrations and new formats. Can re-thinking new strategies, even technological, for reporting migration also have a ...
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