Breaking through the challenging media environment that the Orbán government has created over the past decade in Hungary, Nyugat is providing defiantly independent news while working to rebuild trust in the media by emotionally appealing to readers, write Vidya Kathirgamalingam and Jacqui Park   Launched 21 years ago as an experiment at the “dawn of […]

Bringing sources directly to the audience, The Centrum Media (TCM) uses the power of videos shared via social media to engage young audiences in politically divided Pakistan, writes Sophie Bennett. The Centrum Media focuses on putting human faces to news stories and providing deeper context around contemporary political issues. It builds credibility by presenting its […]

New digital and local media are turning to a journalism of solutions across Latin America, filling the void left by the weakness in the public realm, write Andres Schafer and Nathalie Alvaray in this second part of their deep dive into how journalists and media builders are breaking the mold.   Across Latin America new […]

The Myanmar junta’s crackdown on independent media and civil society has been intensifying again in recent weeks. On December 14, freelance photojournalist Ko Soe Naing died in military custody after being arrested earlier this month while covering a pro-democracy protest in the country’s capital Yangon. He became the first Burmese journalist known to have died […]