"Technology turns up the volume of public discourse but rarely gives us the information we need at the moment we need it. Journalists do." Meera Selva marks World News Day with a call to recognise and...

"For Confidencial, reinventing journalism in exile is not a matter of aesthetic change; it is a strategy for resistance and survival to defeat censorship," writes Golden Pen of Freedom laureate Carlos...

"As the tools for manufacturing fiction keep improving, the case for championing the people committed to fact only grows stronger." On World News Day, News Corp Australasia's Executive Chairman Michae...

World News Day aims to highlight the role of news providers in investigating and explaining important events.

Targeted attacks, bombings and death threats against reporters continue in Northern Ireland

Disinformation now carries an estimated annual cost of US$350–510 billion worldwide – which is why governments, platforms and media organisations should strengthen oversight, enforcement and rigour, a...

‘Producing journalism is not enough if we fail to distribute it.’ – Alia Ibrahim, co-founder and CEO of independent Lebanese news outlet Haraj, unlocks the generational key to storytelling in a time o...

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By Branko Brkic and Tina Brown. There is a curious thing about journalism: Everyone seeking power calls us dead but still wants to control it.

By Ritu Kapur As India marked eighty years of independence this August, I found myself grappling with the very idea of “press freedom”. Because who exactly is the “press” anymore? Is it an accredited ...

"Defending truth and facts costs money and requires values." – Phil Chetwynd shares how journalists put themselves at great risk, at incredible cost, to bear witness – sometimes to catastrophes in rem...

After three years of experimenting in building direct relationships with readers, Rappler is amplifying awareness of its community platform – renamed MUNI – and offering commercial access to global ne...

We have the data and verifiable case studies to prove that journalism’s value is both economic and social. This World News Day is an opportunity to go further to show and tell how and why your journal...

Branko Brkic has lived in two societies at breaking point, with opposite outcomes: 1980s Yugoslavia, where shared facts fell apart until the country tore itself to pieces, and South Africa, where jour...

28 September is World News Day, a moment the news industry can show its collective strength - and explain what goes into our best journalism.

In an era dominated by polarising algorithms, generative AI, and pervasive information chaos, ambiguity threatens the very fabric of democratic debate. A multi-layered approach that combines unambiguo...

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 Journa...

World News Day highlights the power of fact-based journalism, uniting newsrooms worldwide on 28 September to promote truth and media literacy.

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 st...

Whether you are a fan of guns, Charlie Kirk, Trump, Israel or Palestine. Whether you love AfriForum, the MK party, the ANC, DA, EFF, we all need reliable news.

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...

Martin Baron posits that democracy cannot exist without a free press – and a free press cannot exist without democracy. Every year of my journalistic career of nearly half a century, I have known only...

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 cha...

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. This summer...

World News Day is a global media industry campaign led by the World Editors Forum of WAN-IFRA, Branko Brkic’s Project Kontinuum, and the Canadian Journalism Foundation. Each year on 28 September, it u...