Our Focus
For more than 40 years, we have supported independent media and more than 20,000 journalists around the world. Leveraging our combined media and legal expertise, we also work to identify emerging threats to media freedom, and to pioneer innovative programmes to address these challenges.
Our work focuses on:
- Enabling world-class reporting. Our global training programmes promote the highest journalistic standards, critical for robust and effective media scrutiny that audiences can trust.
- Strengthening the sustainability of newsrooms. Our support encompasses legal, editorial, business and management interventions to promote media viability and ensure newsrooms can reach their audiences with high-quality, public interest journalism.
- Supporting media at risk. We deliver customised support programmes to independent media and journalists under threat. This includes working with exiled newsrooms and providing access to specialist legal support.
- Protecting media freedom. Leveraging our global networks and expertise, we help to shape collaborative initiatives that promote media freedom. We also produce innovative research that is used by key actors to navigate emerging threats.
We offer a holistic approach to bolstering the resilience of independent media around the world. Our work encompasses media development programmes for journalists and newsrooms, alongside strategic collaboration with governments, technologists, lawyers and media freedom organisations to foster viable and safe media ecosystems.
Our Objectives
Strengthening independent media
We aim to enable world-class journalism through equipping journalists and editors with the skills to uphold high reporting standards, and empowering media to run sustainable and efficient operations.
Defending media freedom
We help to foster a healthy media ecosystem that upholds press freedom and protects journalists through raising awareness of evolving threats and empowering key actors to effectively respond to them.
The AI journalism training not only helped me to improve my work, but also to understand how to use AI ethically. I learnt how to address AI-related issues as a journalist and how to cover stories in detail, so that people can better understand the impact of this technology and raise their concerns.
This training provided vital support towards our quest for media sustainability. Learning about the link between business models and editorial policy was critical in helping to understand how the business side of the newsroom could compromise our editorial independence.
Resources
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Resilience of Independent Media
Why free media matters A thriving independent media is a key pillar of any free, fair and informed society. Accurate, balanced and impartial journalis…
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024
Why free media matters A thriving independent media is a key pillar of any free, fair and informed society. Accurate, balanced and impar…
ARABIC Journalists’ toolkit: “Journalists’ Pact for Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon”
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Journalists’ toolkit: “Journalists’ Pact for Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon”
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Understanding the laws on journalist sources in Germany
German Basic Law guarantees fundamental rights and freedom to persons and organisations active in the field of press and broadcasting. As a result, in…
Understanding the laws on journalistic sources in South Africa
This Guide provides journalists with a practical understanding of the legal framework on news sources in South Africa. It assesses the recognition of …
Understanding the laws on journalistic sources in Kenya
This Guide provides journalists with a practical understanding of the legal framework on news sources in Kenya. It assesses the recognition of news so…
Understanding the laws on journalistic sources in Zambia
This Guide provides journalists with a practical understanding of the legal framework on news sources in Zambia. It assesses the recognition of news s…
Media Freedom and the Law in Kenya, South Africa and Zambia
This research highlights the key media laws that impact the media and the work of journalists and media organisations in Kenya, South Africa and Zambi…
Report on Media regulation in Kenya, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia and its implications for reporting on illicit financial flows and tax abuse
Media freedom is increasingly under threat as governments exploit laws and policies to suppress dissenting voices and control information. By enacting…
Know Your Rights Guide for Journalists in India (Brief Overview)
Since 2015, the Committee to Protect Journalists in India observed more arrests and cases lodged against journalists under various legislations. Some …
Know Your Rights Guide for Journalists in India- Brief Overview (Hindi)
This is the Hindi version of the brief overview to the Know Your Rights Guide for journalists in India. It is intended to provide user-friendly, pract…
Our Partners
PartnershipsOur global network of delivery partners and funders propels our work to build resilient independent media around the world.
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