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Carlos Dada: Investigating Power and Criminality as Democracy Backslides

Dada is ICFJ’s 2022 Knight Trailblazer Award winner. In accepting the honor, Dada hopes to draw attention to the work done by fellow journalists in El Salvador and across Central America who have less of a platform than he does.

Anisa Shaheed: A Voice for the People of Afghanistan

In recognition of the timely, incisive journalism she has carried out during her career, Anisa Shaheed is one of this year’s ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award winners. “I wanted to be wherever there’s a problem, and get that voice and that news to the people,” she said of her reporting. “That was my wish, and I did it.”

Journalism in Afghanistan Today: An Interview with Samiullah Mahdi

Journalists in Afghanistan for two decades provided the public with vital news and information across a range of independent newspapers, radio stations and TV networks – a media ecosystem that they worked hard to build and strengthen. When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, everything changed in a matter of days.

Women Journalists Making Change in the Newsroom and Beyond

Catherine Gicheru is very familiar with glass ceilings, and how to break them.

She became the first woman news editor of the Nation Media Group, later serving as the founding editor of The Star in Kenya. That’s when Catherine first joined the ICFJ network, as one of a cohort of top news editors we brought to the U.S. to learn from their peer newsrooms. 

“Piercing Putin’s Truth Blockade:” Former ICFJ Award Winner, President Shine a Light on Russian Reporters in Exile

In a new piece for Nieman Reports, award-winning media founder Roman Anin and ICFJ President Sharon Moshavi call for global support of Russian journalists who, despite the challenges, are providing independent news about Russia’s war in Ukraine to fellow citizens living under “increasingly authoritarian darkness” in their country.

New Ways to Fight Online Violence

Over the past two years, ICFJ’s research has illuminated a horrendous – and growing – problem of online violence against women journalists. But we know that researching the problem is just the first step. We also need to help journalists deal with this abuse.

Ukraine: How Women Journalists Are Covering the War

As Russian bombs rip through Ukrainian towns and civilians flee, journalists within and outside the country are countering false reports and filling the information gap caused by Russia’s news blackouts about the war. At TOK TV in Tbilisi, Georgia, Natia Kuprashvili put her team on full alert to make sure the news gets out to audiences who would be in the dark if not for courageous reporters.

On International Women’s Day, Meet Three Inspiring Journalists in ICFJ’s Global Network

Srishti Jaswal grew up in a small rural town in the Himalayas where there were no news outlets and no reporters. “In my entire life, nobody had ever seen a journalist before,” she says of her hometown in northern India. “We didn’t even know what journalism was.” 

Today, Jaswal is an award-winning journalist, reporting on controversial issues such as ritual killings despite receiving threats herself – all too common for women journalists in India. She is also a proud member of ICFJ’s global network of journalists, having benefited from ICFJ resources and training.

Standing with Ukraine's Journalists

All of us at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) are deeply dismayed by reports from our brave Ukrainian colleagues and those journalists who are documenting Russia’s brutal effort to crush its neighbor. Because of their reporting, we know that Russian forces are attacking hospitals, schools, apartment buildings and now

La Disparition, a One-of-A-kind Media Outlet in Letter Form

"To you, reading me today.”

This is how the first edition of La Disparition addresses its reader. This new media, whose motto is "epistolary and political," tells the story of the disappearances of our world, whether it be a profession, a tree, or hope.

Every two weeks, readers receive something that is all too rare: a physical letter in the mail (the kind that brings joy, not a bill or a notice for a lost package at the post office).