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IPI and IMS announce 2026 recipients of World Press Freedom Hero and Free Media Pioneer awards
This year’s awardees demonstrate remarkable courage, ingenuity, and resilience in the face of unprecedented challenges to freedom and independent journalism around the world
“Journalists in Lebanon live the crisis twice”
As Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies, the Independent Journalists’ Union is working to protect journalists, document attacks and push for accountability. In this interview, the Union’s president Elsy Moufarrej speaks with IMS executive director Jesper Højberg about her organisation’s efforts to support its members in a time of extreme peril for journalists and other media workers in Lebanon.
Eleven trailblazing organisations shortlisted for 2026 IMS-IPI Free Media Pioneer Award
IMS and IPI are proud to announce the 11 organisations shortlisted for the 2026 IMS-IPI Free Media Pioneer Award in recognition of their creative and innovative work to sustain independent journalism amid an increasingly hostile global environment for press freedom.
Unlocking local capital for Zimbabwe’s public‑interest media
As business models fail, the world faces uncertainties on many fronts, donor funding tightens and digital disruption accelerates, media leaders, financiers, and policymakers gathered in Harare to dialogue on the future of independent journalism.
Why local public-interest media matters more than ever
At a time of shrinking funding, platform disruption, and rising disinformation, Europe needs stronger local and plural media ecosystems—and new ways to sustain them.