WAN-IFRA announces the winners of the Digital Media Awards Europe 2024. wan-ifra.org/2024/04/wan-if…

South Africa’s @DailyMaverick has shut down.
For today, 15 April 2024.
It has done so to highlight the global state of emergency in journalism. dailymaverick.co.za/shutdown/

The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

News and media literacy groups are calling on Europe to include journalism in media literacy education. Students need to know how to spot news they can trust. news-decoder.com/for-media-lite…

WAN-IFRA unveils the Digital Media Awards Americas 2024 winners! wan-ifra.org/2024/04/wan-if…

WAN-IFRA is supporter of the World Free Expression Forum which is taking place in Lillehammer, Norway on 27 and 28 May. For their impressive lineup and themes for discussion, and registration 👇 wexfo.no/wexfo-conferen…

Petition to stop British political parties from pretending to be local newspapers when sharing campaign info. #EndDeceptiveCampaigning actions.fullfact.org/petitions/end-… via Full Fact

THE Election Year. The Year of AI elections. With over 60 countries heading to the polls, the world may look a little – or a lot – different by the end of 2024. How are newsrooms managing coverage and the significant challenge to sort fact from fiction?
wan-ifra.org/2024/04/lesson…

Vanguard journalism. Investigating and 'exposing new layers and hard truths' about the devastating Gaza war. And pushing political leaders to ask questions and take a stand 972mag.com/wp-content/the… +972 Magazine

South African President finally repeals criminal defamation laws after decades of campaigning by media freedom advocates- including WAN-IFRA.

AI is quietly revolutionizing the news. Here’s how qz.com/ai-news-media-… via Quartz

Advice from IJNet on how journalists can effectively connect with younger audiences today, and supply them with reliable news. ijnet.org/en/story/how-t…

Russian court extends detention of journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June aje.io/m2ay5f via Al Jazeera English

Iran International journalist stabbed outside London home theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Is generative AI fit for news production? Evaluation is key! In this piece Sachita Nishal is at [email protected] Charlotte Li and I develop a framework for thinking about evaluation in journalism revolving around output quality, interaction quality, and ethics alignment: generative-ai-newsroom.com/blueprints-for…

A wonderful tribute to Tony Heard responsible for one of the most significant moments in South African journalism and history. 'He was a journalist’s journalist, a man for whom principles counted above all else.' dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0…

Award-winning South African journalist Tony Heard has died. He was awarded WAN-IFRA's Golden Pen of Freedom in 1986 in recognition of his contribution to press freedom. news24.com/news24/southaf… via @news24