IMS staff and partners share their expert insights on media development in different global contexts.
On 8 December 2024, the fall of the Assad regime transformed the media landscape in Syria. Now, as funding dwindles, new challenges arise.
The 21st edition of the conference, held from 5 to 7 November in South Africa, saw active investigative journalists get together to discuss journalism, safety of journalists, the business of journalism and the role of AI in media consumption.
The ambition of the conference is to talk less about challenges – and more about solutions to disinformation and other challenges to our information ecosystems.
In this blog post, the authors reflect on the urgent need for global action to preserve and promote the health of local and global information ecosystems - the central theme of the Copenhagen Conference on Information Integrity, 11 and 12 Nov. 2025.
The 22nd Africa-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting held in Zimbabwe marked a shift in Africa-Nordic relations by moving the focus away from traditional aid-based models and towards strategic economic partnerships.
Over the weekend, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra’s village Masafer Yatta, wounding two of his brothers and his cousin.
An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude hit eastern Afghanistan late into the night of 31 August. An Afghan journalist who is reporting from Kunar, one of the worst-hit regions, spoke to IMS about the challenges.
We are in a profound global information crisis. That message is coming out loud and clear from the M20 Summit in Johannesburg, where global and local representatives of the media have come together during the 2025 South African presidency of the G20 to sound the alarm.
The event, which is taking place in South Africa this year, is a promising vehicle to bring together local actors on the ground and international coalitions capable of influencing policy.
