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Open Letter to José Rubén Zamora, Imprisoned in Guatemala, from Fellow ICFJ Knight Award Winners

Renowned Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, who has been behind bars since July 2022 in pre-trial detention, was sentenced June 14 to six years in prison on spurious money laundering charges. This follows the closing of his news outlet, elPeriódico, in May, after sustained economic and political harassment, including against nine additional members of elPeriódico’s newsroom. 

ICFJ Condemns Sham Conviction of Guatemalan Journalist

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) calls for the immediate release of journalist José Rubén Zamora in Guatemala and an end to the unjust legal assault on the publisher and his colleagues.

Georgian Journalists Incorporate Game-Based Learning Amid Press Freedom Interference

160 projetos de mídia no Brasil foram selecionados para receber mentorias e fundos de inovação

Acelerando Negócios Digitais visa ajudar a mídia brasileira a inovar para a era digital, construindo organizações de notícias mais fortes e financeiramente sustentáveis para melhor atender suas audiências.

160 Media Projects in Brazil Selected to Receive Mentoring, Innovation Grants

Accelerating Digital Businesses aims to help Brazilian media innovate for the digital era, building stronger, financially sustainable news organizations that better serve the public.

How to Use Artificial Intelligence in Journalism Without Losing Audience Trust

At Media Party Chicago, a conference exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and journalism, attendees debated and learned about the opportunities and dangers of AI. Ethics experts proposed frameworks for responsible use of powerful new technologies, developers taught journalists how to use AI to bring customized content to their readers and reporters wrestled with how to maintain audiences’ trust while AI-aided disinformation abounds. 

The Success Stories of IJNet Arabic’s 2022-23 Mentoring Center for Media Startups

With support from the National Endowment for Democracy, the IJNet Arabic Mentoring Center for Media Startups in the Middle East and North Africa has worked with more than 70 media entrepreneurs since launching in 2014, helping them develop their media platforms and improve their financial sustainability.  

Here’s more on the six media entrepreneurs who took part in the 2022-23 Mentoring Center, and their promising initiatives.

A Network of Women Journalists in Africa is Changing the Narrative Surrounding Women

Through her ICFJ Knight Fellowship, Catherine Gicheru created the Africa Women Journalism Project (AWJP), a network of female journalists and data analysts who team up to produce data-driven coverage of underreported health, gender and economic issues. 

The ICFJ Forum: Helping Over 15,000 Journalists Cover Global Crises

The ICFJ Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting is a community of 15,000 journalists from 134 countries. Through Facebook groups, sessions with experts and newsletters – all in five languages – journalists worldwide get to meet, learn and collaborate. 

Good Journalism Can Help U.S. Avoid Pitfalls of Misjudging China, Experts Say

A strange moment of consensus exists in Washington today that China is becoming “the dominant fact in our windscreen” and “a kind of inevitable enemy,” said The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, in conversation Tuesday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.