Heightened by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, wars (such as the one in Ukraine), and the continuous dominance of tech giants like Google and Meta in the digital advertising market, the crisis in local journalism has significantly affected how news organizations serve their communities’ needs and preserve editorial independence. To discuss potential solutions, […]

The new offer of tools and resources powered by large language models has sparked a wide range of perspectives within newsrooms – some good, like the promise of enhanced productivity, some bad, like concerns about misinformation and job displacement. Leaders in the journalism industry shared their insights on such perspectives in a panel titled AI’s […]

Women have long felt that mainstream media is not listening to and representing them properly, despite of the fact that they make up half of the world’s population. In recent years, this misrepresentation has given rise to a number of media organizations that look at the world through a feminist lens, trying to showcase women’s […]

The editorial office of the weekly magazine Nacional received death threats in an SMS message on Monday, 20 May 2024. The SafeJournalists Network and the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners are calling on the relevant institutions in Croatia to immediately respond, find, and prosecute the perpetrator. The message sent to Nacional’s official phone contained […]