It usually starts with a simple email or WhatsApp message: "I'm a journalist, and I got your contact information from so-and-so. I'm traveling to your country and am looking for a fixer." Although ...

As Canada’s media contends with major financial instability, newsrooms are laying off their journalists. In December, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada’s public broadcaster, ...

The World Press Trends Outlook 2024-2025, the 30th edition of an annual report by WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers), offers a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges ...

When a joint investigation published in December 2023 by Amnesty International and The Washington Post revealed that journalists in India were being targeted by the hacking spyware, Pegasus, Siddharth ...

Sameer Roy* remembers vividly the excitement of joining a prominent Indian newsroom in New Delhi about five years ago, upon graduating from a prestigious journalism school. At first the newsroom ...

Last week, I traveled to the historic city of Perugia in Umbria, Italy. With clear blue skies, wisteria hanging over ancient Roman walls, plenty of gelato and beautiful vistas from the hilltop, the ...

As technology advances, fake images and video become harder to spot. A University of Warwick study found participants identified fake images only 60 percent of the time. But these tools can help us ...

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) – the gathering and analysis of publicly available information found on social media, and in databases and government records – can be invaluable in situations when ...

AI-powered fact-checking tools can greatly speed up journalists' efforts to analyze all kinds of content, from images and video, to audio recordings and text. “AI has undeniably become an essential ...

On June 15, a Philippines court found renowned Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa and her former colleague Reynaldo Santos, Jr. guilty of criminal cyber libel. “This is how democracy dies in the ...

After a tip about unsustainable logging at a Malaysian state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) Fellow Low Choon Chyuan launched a yearlong investigation, ...

In an era when people trust news less than ever, how can journalists break through and attract the attention of average people to provide information about their communities, the nation and the world?