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7 Tips to Sharpen your Business Mindset and Run a Sustainable Media Outlet

In June, in Seoul, South Korea, at Global Fact 10, an annual conference organized by the International Fact-Checking Network, Jiménez and Çavuş shared with a select group of journalists how their lives – and their businesses – had changed in the past few months If you’re struggling to run a media outlet, or if you know someone who fits this description, make sure to review and share out the following tips.

Helping Journalists Navigate the Artificial Intelligence Frontier

At ICFJ, we’re supporting the journalists in our network to navigate this transformative moment, one filled with questions: How can AI improve how journalists work? How do we prevent the spread of disinformation on a massive scale? How do journalists build and sustain audience trust in their reporting in an AI-powered world? 

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. 

U.S. Journalists Strengthen Their Work Through the ICFJ Network

The power of ICFJ’s network across 173 countries isn’t only in its scope. It’s about what is made possible when journalists connect with one another to collaborate and learn across these borders: better, stronger journalism.

5 Lessons Learned about the Newsletter Business in the U.S.

As an Arthur F. Burns Fellow from Germany, I was able to look behind the scenes at the newsletter start-up 6AM City for two months. This is how clever curating can create a multimillion-dollar business.

The Benefits and Pitfalls of ChatGPT for Journalists

In the latest ICFJ Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting webinar, Jenna Burrell, director of research at Data & Society, dove into the pros of ChatGPT and how it can be a tool for journalists, as well as its limitations and what journalists should be cautious about.  

How Bellingcat Uncovered the Truth Behind Russian Missile Strikes in Ukraine

When Christo Grozev, executive director of Bellingcat, saw that Russia was claiming its missiles were striking only military targets in Ukraine, he knew he had to go beyond just proving that was not true.

How to Produce More Gender-Equitable Coverage

“Women are being underrepresented in news leadership, as protagonists in news gathering and news coverage, and fewer women tend to consume news,” said Kassova. “There are [many] areas we need to get right if equitable journalism is to be produced.”

ICFJ Knight Fellows Offer Tips to Help Journalists Navigate 2023

Here’s what ICFJ Knight Fellows learned in 2022, and tips they shared to help their fellow journalists navigate the new year.