In depth

These pages feature detailed projects and particular areas of focus in IMS’ work. These include in depth looks at programmes in which the country has faced war or rapid political change, multifaceted views of the role journalism plays in intersectional feminism; collections of reporting from our partners on global issues such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate and environmental reporting; and projects and events related to IMS.

Countries

Palestine

Israel’s war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict on record for journalists. Learn more about how journalists are continuing to work under extreme conditions and how IMS is supporting their work.

Ukraine

From the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion to a future-focused view to reconstruction and reconciliation, journalists are playing a crucial role in the war in Ukraine.

Afghanistan

IMS has been engaged in Afghanistan since 2001, working to improve press freedom and journalists’ safety in one of the most dangerous places for journalists in the world.

Policy

UNPA

Since 2012, the UNPA has been the backdrop for IMS’ collaborations with local partners to establish robust national safety mechanisms and improve the safety of journalists around the world.

Public Interest Infrastructure

Investigating how our digital infrastructures can serve marginalised communities, local journalism and democracy.

Gender

Navigating a changing world

This online publication is a celebration of intersectional feminist journalism. IMS’ partners tell stories full of wit, critique and passion that denounce and resist patriarchal society.

Gender equality

IMS works to promote ethical and diverse public interest content that is gender sensitive and transformative to ensure that all individuals have access to information that is relevant to and representative of them.

XwhY: Syria gender reader

This reader seeks to cover a periodical selection of media content produced by the Syria Programme’s partners on gender and sexuality.

Global

Environmental reader

The Environmental reader is a collection of IMS’ partners’ evolving coverage of environmental and climate issues and concerns.

Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic massively expanded audiences in need of reporting they could trust while advertising revenues collapsed, leaving public interest media struggling to survive.

Asia rights repressed

Media outlets from Nepal, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Cambodia and the Philippines documented how Covid-19 was used to repress political, social and economic rights.

IMS

IMS 20th anniversary

To mark our 20th anniversary as an organisation, IMS looked back at some of our partners’ successes – and examined the challenges that continue to make our work relevant.

MediaBridge

The digital platform MediaBridge enables collaborating media to bring compelling and essential stories from hard-to-reach places around the world to a global audience.