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The Local News Playbook: Creating Value for a Sustainable Future
Deep Insights
London; Miami: FT Strategies; Knight Foundation (2026), 105 pp.
"Drawing on global interviews with newsroom leaders, a cross-market survey of exemplary organisations, and FT Strategies’ work with more than 1,000 media businesses worldwide, the playbook identifies the core drivers that distinguish financially sustainable, community-rooted local news. It reframe
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"À l’ère des algorithmes et de l’intelligence artificielle générative, l’enjeu démocratique n’est plus seulement l’accès à l’information, mais la capacité collective à identifier et reconnaître les acteurs de confiance qui en garantissent la production. Lorsque les images, les
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AI in the media: Kenya and South Africa
Bonn; Stellenbosch (ZA): Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 27 pp.
"This study shows that AI remains largely an underexplored, and often misunderstood, topic for journalism in South Africa and Kenya. Stories can be framed in overly positive terms, such as the potential AI holds for development and social change, or negative terms, by highlighting the extractive nat
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Safer platforms, stronger participation: Mapping gender-based violence online in Syria
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 57 pp.
"Findings show that Gender-Based Violence Online( GBVO) in Syria is normalized and systemic, not merely isolated incidents, functioning as a mechanism of social control that reinforces patriarchal power and restricts civic participation. It takes overlapping forms, including sexual blackmail, harass
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Funding the Future of Local News: Lessons for the UK and beyond from journalism funds around the world
Deep Insights
Greater Community Media; Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) (2026), 124 pp.
"In this report we have documented ten case studies of visionary journalism support funds that we can learn from, drawing out insights and experiences from interviews with the people behind these funds. As we ourselves have been founders and leaders of pioneering local news organisations in the UK,
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The Mission in the Digital Environment
Vatican City: XVI General Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (2026), 26 pp.
"[...] The mission in the digital environment is part of the pastoral, missionary, and synodal conversion process to which the Holy Spirit is calling the Church today. It is not merely about using digital tools to proclaim the Gospel, but about embodying this proclamation within digital culture, whe
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Journalism Funds: Building Sustainable Infrastructure for Healthy Information Ecosystems. Why and How the International Fund for Public Interest Media Supports Journalism Funds
International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) (2026), 24 pp.
"This position paper presents the International Fund for Public Interest Media’s vision for journalism funds as a promising structural and sustainable solution for financing independent journalism at scale. It draws on our experience as a multilateral pooled fund, as well as our work funding, advi
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"Based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework, the seven characteristics of trustworthy AI are:
1. Valid and Reliable: The AI system should perform as intended, delivering accurate results consistently across different situations.
2. Safe: The sy
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Navigating risks and rewards: How South African journalists use AI in the newsroom
Johannesburg; Stellenbosch: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Sub-Saharan Africa; Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) (2026), 33 pp.
"This study demonstrates impressively how widely AI is already used in South African newsrooms – often, however, without systematic training, without editorial guidelines, and without tools adapted to African languages and contexts. The interviews make it clear that journalists stand between curio
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Democratic Decline, Economic and Political Pressures, Urgency for Reforms. The Future of the Media in Turkey – Facts and Trends
Sarajevo; Istanbul; Ljubljana: Mediacentar; Bianet; Peace Institute; South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2025), 39 pp.
"The state of the media and democracy in Turkey faces critical challenges that hinder freedom of expression and pluralism, due to restrictive legal frameworks, economic instability, and cross-ownership in the media sector. Although digitalization has transformed news consumption, the government’s
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"The findings in this report highlight the challenges associated with media access in FSM, which are amplified by the country’s dispersed geography. Internet is difficult to access outside of major population centres, however, the recent introduction of Starlink and expected completion of submarin
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Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI: Policy Manual
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2025), 147 pp.
"With this Policy Manual, we provide guidance for building an information space free from oligopolistic control, resilient to manipulation, and supportive of independent, pluralistic media. This Policy Manual proposes both structural reforms and targeted mitigation measures – focusing on media vis
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Urgent call for governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to support independent media and journalism
Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2025), 3 pp.
"The recent U.S. government decision to suspend foreign assistance has abruptly halted key grants and programmes that have been essential in sustaining global development, cooperation, and supporting international peace and security and human rights efforts worldwide, putting in jeopardy the ability
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Recomendaciones estratégicas para fortalecer la ficción televisiva sobre la historia reciente de Colombia
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin; GUMELAB (2025), 28 pp.
"En las últimas dos décadas, la televisión colombiana ha incrementado significativamente la producción de telenovelas y series de ficción que abordan episodios traumáticos de la historia reciente del país, en particular relacionados con el conflicto armado y el narcotráfico. Estas obras —q
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Navigating instability: A five-phase approach to supporting exiled media
Key Guides
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2025), 33 pp.
"In recent years, IMS has seen a steady increase in the number of its media partners forced to flee their home countries to avoid persecution and closure as the democratic space globally has shrunk. IMS expects this trend to continue, with “exiled media” becoming the main – and, in some cases,
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Tools for Reporting Online Violence Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them
Tech Policy Press, Aug 28 (2025)
"For several years now, we’ve seen leading social media platforms make dramatic cuts to their trust and safety teams, often in the name of ‘efficiency.’ Unfortunately, the results have been predictable: Harassment and online threats on those same platforms are more widespread than ever, and th
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Rethinking Open Source in the Age of Foundational AI Models
Deep Insights
ICTworks, July 29 (2025)
"As the global artificial intelligence community wrestles with the tension between scale and accessibility, recent work by researchers at Lelapa AI offers a compelling example of what inclusive, efficient AI can look like. Around the world, the push to shrink massive language models into deployable,
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Key Questions for AI in Public Institutions: Prompts and Resources to Spark Critical Conversation
Key Guides
""In this think piece we sketch the impacts and implications of corporate AI for institutions with a public interest orientation. We focus on public universities and social services as vital public institutions that have been widely understood as essential to democracy and social justice. Through a
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Open Source Software Trap: Our Fatal Business Model Flaw
ICTworks, July 1 (2025)
"I’ve been building open source software technology for NGOs for over a decade, and I have a confession: we’ve been living a lie. For years, I firmly believed that open source was the moral imperative that would democratize technology for the Global South. I championed platforms that could be fr
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Our Media, Our Democracy, Our Future. The Future of the Media in the Western Balkans and Turkey – Facts and Trends. Regional Overview
Deep Insights
Sarajevo; Ljubljana: Mediacentar; Peace Institute; South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2025), 57 pp.
"The results of the research conducted in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey suggest that the key determinants for the future of our media and democracies are the following:
• The poor socio-economic status of journalists and their exposure to
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