Journalism in an Age of Impunity

2025-10-31. Chat GBV: Raising Awareness on AI-facilitated Gender-Based Violence Against Women Journalists, is UNESCO’s theme for this year’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists – reflecting an acceleration in the number, type and placement of threats and attacks against journalists worldwide – and the increasing lack of accountability for them.

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.

‘Masters of our own fate’: Media leaders embrace an AI future on their own terms

2025-10-30. At WAN-IFRA’s Paris AI Forum this week, optimism defined the conversations. Rather than yielding to disruption, news executives and technologists spoke of agency, collaboration and a human-centered vision for the future of journalism.

Publishers roll out bundle initiatives to boost digital subscriptions

2025-10-28. The past few weeks have seen a number of bundled digital subscription package plans announced by publishers in several parts of the world.

‘The goal is clear: Make journalism stronger, more relevant, and more resilient.’ – Peter Vandermeersch

2025-10-17. The former MediaHuis CEO shares insights into his new role as inaugural Fellow, Journalism and Society – and offers sage advice for journalists, editors and newsrooms working through a period of immense change.

How The City has succeeded by building in community from the ground up

2025-10-17. Since its launch, the award-winning and non-profit local news site The City has focused on “reporting to New Yorkers.” The investigative journalism of its 30-head newsroom has resulted in criminal indictments, political resignations and ethics inquiries. It has inspired new laws, influenced budget decisions and reversed injustices.

Stibo’s Marie Bering on AI: ‘We see a lot of forward-thinking innovation out there’

2025-10-16. Marie Bering recently became Stibo DX’s Director of Product Management. Originally a journalist working in Denmark across both publishing and broadcast, she has a combined 20 years of experience in journalism, IT and product development. WAN-IFRA interviewed Bering as part of its recent report, “Where publishers are seeing AI’s real value – so far,” to get her perspective on how publishers are working with AI. | Sponsored Content

Tapping into AI’s ‘double opportunity’: Ouest-France’s strategy to keep AI in-house

2025-10-14. The French local publisher’s “bottom-up” approach to AI combines a protected sandbox for testing LLMs with robust data protection and copyright safeguards: “We block crawlers, and we are very protective of the content.”