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Hacking the ‘Dictator’s Playbook’: How to navigate retaliation, selective access, and (self-)censorship

How can newsrooms respond in an era of escalating attacks? Legal advisers share practical strategies, plus: we offer a checklist every newsroom needs.

Stronger Together: A Year of Growth, Connection, and Forward Momentum

2025-12-15. In its first year, the Stronger Together programme empowered 40 Ukrainian media outlets with grants, training, and mentorship, boosting investigative reporting, newsroom leadership, and resilience. As it moves into year two, new international partnerships promise to drive further innovation, collaboration, and impact for independent journalism.

World Editors Forum President: “Free Jimmy Lai. Let him leave Hong Kong.”

2025-12-15. David Walmsley, President of the World Editors Forum and Editor in Chief of the Globe and Mail, responds to the guilty verdict handed down to Jimmy Lai, recipient of WAN-IFRA’s 2021 Golden Pen of Freedom, and urges authorities to let him leave the territory.

End Impunity: The US is attacking the public’s right to know

2025-10-31. The public’s right to know is in serious jeopardy in the United States. The country that once proudly lauded its commitment to free expression and a free press has rapidly adopted the behavior of autocrats to stifle reporting it does not like, writes Jodie Ginsberg.

End Impunity: Silence is Complicity

2025-10-31. It is the largest massacre of journalists in human history: 253 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed Since October 2023. Yet these killings remain mostly unacknowledged and unpunished and by those responsible – a stark example of the impunity that allows this to continue, writes Dima Khatib.

End Impunity: Europe’s journalists are under attack – and their abusers walk free

2025-10-31. The pattern is clear: coordinated waves of digital abuse, aimed mainly at women and minority journalists, with almost total impunity for the perpetrators, writes Peter Vandermeersch.

Strength in Unity: #WND2025 shows journalism won’t back down

2025-10-03. From Tonga to Afghanistan, Canada to Venezuela and Korea to Estonia, the global campaign brought together more than 1 000 newsbrands in 111 countries in a record-breaking show of solidarity.

The light we cannot lose

On this World News Day, for too many people, the future is getting too dark to see. This moment is best described as living in a state of perpetual flux, of global uncertainty and deep, unsettling insecurity, writes Brank Brkic.

Your right to know: Why journalism and access to information matter more than ever

2025-09-28. Independent journalism and access to public information are mutually reinforcing: societies cannot remain informed or resilient if either is undermined, write David Walmsley and Tawfik Jelassi, who stress that defending the right to know is not optional.

Journalism under siege

2025-09-26. It is getting harder every day to do the fundamental journalistic task of collecting facts and verifying information. It is also getting much more dangerous, writes Phil Chetwynd.