Five countries in Africa — Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria and Niger — sit among the top 10 in the Institute for Economics and Peace’s 2024 Global Terrorism Index. For years, in communities across the continent, deadly terrorist groups such as Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, and the
Distinguishing legitimate from fake job postings can be challenging, including for journalists, and could lead to the loss of valuable time, money and personal information to scammers. In 2023, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, job scams increased by 118% over the previous year. "Ghost jobs" also
If you work in journalism, you might recognize that 2024 was a year of reckoning for our industry. I certainly do. At the start of the year, I embarked on a Knight Fellowship with ICFJ to explore how generative AI can be used to improve the way we serve information
In India in the 1970s, the Dalit Panthers Movement, which challenged caste discrimination, published pocket-sized magazines to share anti-caste work — a defiant break away from the upper caste dominance in India’s art journalism space. Along with anti-caste literature, these magazines had strong visual elements, such as using bold colors
Women who live in riverside communities in the Amazon often contend with challenges that prevent them from accessing critical prenatal care, from low tide levels to long, costly journeys. But in the Brazilian state of Pará, in a riverside city of 72 islands, the rate of pregnant women accessing treatment
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on January 7 regarding the conclusion of Meta’s fact-checking efforts in the U.S. and his intention to “get rid” of fact-checkers subjects journalists to the same treatment they typically receive from disinformers. Omitting the fact that it was the company he leads
Confidence is low in the news industry as it marches into 2025, according to the Reuters Institute's annual report, Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025, published on January 9, 2025. This is based on a survey of 326 digital leaders from 51 countries and territories. In
In the wake of alarming revelations that members of the Brazilian military allegedly planned a coup to overturn the country’s 2022 election, as well as an assassination attempt on the lives of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his vice president, and a Supreme Court judge — and that former
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The International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation through multiple programs such as investigative journalism, capacity building and media literacy education. ICFJ partnered with MediaWise from the Poynter Institute to develop
“The news media is the least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process,” the polling firm Gallup concluded in a 2024 analysis. Despite news organizations’ pledges to provide fact-based reporting, and ongoing investments to build trust, people across the political spectrum in
This resource is part of our Exiled Media Toolkit, produced in partnership with the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), and with the generous support of the Joyce Barnathan Emergency Fund for Journalists. For nearly two decades, Zamaneh Media has brought the people of Iran valuable information about their country,
Trans issues have become central to political debates in Brazil. In October, the most-voted city council candidate in São Paulo ran on a platform that denied rights to transgender people. Beginning in January, he will serve alongside a transgender woman, who received the fifth-highest number of votes in the city.