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The latest news from the International Center for Journalists.

April
14
2023

Reporting Teams Win Grants to Reveal Who Funds Disinformation

Eight reporting teams from 11 countries will receive up to $10,000 each in grants and expert mentorship to support cross-border investigations into the people and organizations funding disinformation campaigns in the Americas. The winning projects will investigate, among other topics, who is behind and who profits from false narratives targeting Latin American migrants at the U.S. border; who funds disinformation about abortion and women's rights in the Americas; and who invested in anti-democratic falsehoods that led to the January 8th attacks in Brazil.

April
10
2023

5 Tips for Launching a Media Startup

I'm a woman journalist from the Middle East who has witnessed the critical need for independent media in the region. Here are my top five recommendations for fellow media entrepreneurs launching startups of their own, drawing from lessons learned during my time with MADRAJ and from working with our innovators.
April
10
2023

Advice for Using TikTok to Drive News Engagement

During a recent ICFJ Empowering the Truth Global Summit session, Openly TikTok Lead and LGBTQ+ correspondent Enrique Anarte shared with journalists how to make engaging news TikToks. Here’s what he had to say:
April
3
2023

How to Use Podcasting to Amplify Credible Reporting

In a recent ICFJ Empowering the Truth Global Summit session, ICFJ spoke with Amit Varma, writer, columnist and host of the weekly podcast, The Seen and The Unseen, about the role podcasting can play in amplifying credible reporting. Varma also offered tips on how to get started as a podcaster.
March
30
2023

Journalists from Nigeria and Zimbabwe Win 2023 Michael Elliott Award

A journalist who investigated the lives of kidnapped schoolgirls now in university in Nigeria and another who chronicled how rising temperatures in Zimbabwe are impacting an all-women fishing cooperative are the 2023 winners of the Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling. 

March
28
2023

Journalists Across 15 African Countries Expand Digital Skills


Godlive is one of 390 journalists from fifteen countries who took part in ICFJ’s African Regional Journalism Workshops, offered in three languages. The online trainings covered ethical newsgathering, investigative reporting, media sustainability and entrepreneurship, mobile journalism and elections journalism. Two dozen journalists from each language cohort were then selected to attend in-person workshops on disinformation and fact-checking. 
 
March
27
2023

How Journalists Can Use New Visual Techniques to Create Viral Stories

Emojis, memes and gifs: you may text with them on a daily basis, but did you know you can also use them in your reporting to boost engagement?

March
23
2023

Helping News Outlets Overcome Their Biggest Business Challenges

Great journalism alone isn’t enough. Independent news coverage cannot reach the communities that need it most if media businesses are not equipped to thrive.

March
21
2023

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to Receive Top Journalism Award

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will honor CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer with the ICFJ Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism. The veteran journalist, who has delivered in-depth coverage of some of the world’s biggest stories in a career spanning more than five decades, will receive the award Nov. 2 at the ICFJ Tribute to Journalists 2023 event in Washington, D.C.

March
20
2023

Understanding Deepfakes and How to Counter Them

From Snapchat face swap filters to U.S. President Joe Biden singing Baby Shark, manipulated media has proliferated in recent years. Deepfakes and other forms of synthetic and AI-assisted media manipulation are on the rise, and journalists tasked with sorting fact from fiction are forced to keep pace.