IMS combines rapid response with long-term efforts to create a foundation of trust and collaboration on the ground. We work together with our partners to find local solutions to global problems – and global solutions to local problems.
With partners in more than 30 countries, IMS works where independent media is at the greatest risk: in countries experiencing armed conflict, humanitarian crises, rapid political change or authoritarian rule.
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AI can summarise, translate, transcribe, search, compare and suggest at remarkable speed. Many newsrooms already use it for exactly that. But by itself, AI does not know what a newsroom stands for. it does not know its editorial standards, its archive, its audience, its local context or the professional judgement built through years of reporting. That is where the AI Newsroom Pilot begins.
On the quiet shores of Lake Bishoftu on 23-24 July 2026, away from the daily noise of Ethiopia’s political and media pressures, journalists, editors, civil society actors, media support organisations and freedom of expression advocates gathered around one urgent question: how can Ethiopia better protect those who risk their lives, liberty and wellbeing to inform the public?
Citizen Osama made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, offering a raw and intimate portrait of a Palestinian photojournalist’s struggle to document the war in Gaza while protecting his family.
