The rise of misinformation in Africa has led to a series of consequences, among them conflict and violence, and a lack of trust in healthcare systems. Earlier this year, for example, a number of false ...

Journalists provide quality information. Librarians help people find quality information. Both fields are rooted in promoting civic engagement. Both are contextual experts in the communities they ...

As India carries out the world’s largest-ever election this year, an alarming trend must not go overlooked: the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is weaponizing legislation to go after journalists ...

As technology advances, fake images and video become harder to spot. A University of Warwick study found participants identified fake images only 60 percent of the time. But these tools can help us ...

Today, anyone with access to a smartphone has the ability to become a mobile journalist. From covering breaking news, to creating unique feature videos on underreported stories, to highlighting ...

In the COVID era, many of us have had to adapt to new ways of doing things. Working from home and distributed newsrooms have become part of the “new normal” for many journalists. This has often meant ...

The rise of AI technologies is transforming the way journalists work, and while text-generating models like ChatGPT make most of the headlines, there is much more to this rapidly-evolving technology.

Humanizing data is all about breathing life into numbers. Doing so successfully is the challenge journalists face as they cover global events, from the pandemic and migration to conflict and terrorism ...

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) – the gathering and analysis of publicly available information found on social media, and in databases and government records – can be invaluable in situations when ...

As every journalist knows, interviews make stories real. They bring us closer to the truth, give the news a voice and supply readers with first-hand experiences that deepen their understanding of the ...

The World Press Trends Outlook 2024-2025, the 30th edition of an annual report by WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers), offers a comprehensive look at the opportunities and challenges ...

When a joint investigation published in December 2023 by Amnesty International and The Washington Post revealed that journalists in India were being targeted by the hacking spyware, Pegasus, Siddharth ...