News

The unseen truth about global trust in news 

2025-09-26. Luba Kassova and Richard Addy argue that the widely repeated claim about global trust in news being in decline is misleading – and overly shaped by the United States’ experience.

Global lessons from a press in peril

2026-09-26. Martin Baron posts that democracy cannot exist without a free press – and a free press cannot exist without democracy.

Times of darkness

2025-09-26. Our current environment of misinformation, mistrust, the spread of illiberal politics through influencer-style authoritarians, and the erosion of democratic norms, is “less an era of change than a change of era,” writes Fernando Belzunce.

You deserve the truth, not AI’s interpretation of it

2025-09-25. To understand the world around us we need reliable and rigorous reporting, with AI as a tool that amplifies such journalism rather than exploits and distorts it, writes Liz Corbin and Vincent Peyrègne.

Shutting down the internet shuts down your Right to Know

2025-09-25. Winnie Kamau calls out the alarming global trend of governments shutting down the internet in times of political crisis, with 294 such shutdowns in 54 countries in 2024 – including 15 in Africa.

Regenerating the base layer of democracy: local news

2025-09-24. Jonathan Heawood argues that local news is the foundation of a healthy democracy, yet it has been weakened by political hostility, collapsing business models, and the rise of social media.

Expert opinion by the high-level panel on public interest media

2025-09-24. Eleven of the world’s leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, urge governments to recognise and uphold the economic value of public interest media in the age of AI.

Nepal’s social media ban sparks deadly protests, but deeper grievances fuel the fire

2025-09-12. Demonstrations have escalated since a government ban on 26 social media apps triggered widespread protests led by the country’s youth demanding widespread political reform.

Global news media call on U.S. to scrap new visa proposal

2025-09-11. Dozens of major news and journalist organisations worldwide are urging the U.S. government to drop a proposal that would drastically shorten the time foreign correspondents can live and work in America.

Enough death, enough tragedy. The killing of Palestinian journalists must end

2025-09-01. As an industry, we demand protection for our Palestinian colleagues and an end to impunity for those who target and kill journalists. Independent access to Gaza for foreign media is also vital. Journalism, and the accountability it brings, matters – if it didn’t, the Israeli government wouldn’t be so hell-bent on restricting it.