Information providers across the world are grappling with the same challenges: how to do more with less, how to reach audiences and how to stay financially afloat while doing work that matters. Those pressures were a common thread running through sessions at the 2026 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, earlier this month.
Three sessions – on shared services, the rise of independent news creators and radical collaboration – approached the problem from different angles but kept arriving at the same conclusion: no one can do this work alone anymore.