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Участники сети ICFJ могут подать заявки на гранты, цель которых – противостоять усилению цензуры и росту дезинформации, возникшим в результате войны в Украине

Международный центр для журналистов предлагает два вида грантов, доступных для участников нашей сети из стран бывшего СССР и Восточной Европы. Цель этих грантов – противостоять росту дезинформации, усилению цензуры и репрессий в отношении независимых медиа и помочь информировать аудиторию, не имеющую доступа к достоверной информации.

ICFJ Network Members Eligible for Grants to Challenge Growing Censorship and Disinformation as a Result of the Ukraine War

The International Center for Journalists is making two kinds of grants available to members of our network in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to address the increase in disinformation, censorship and crackdowns on independent media, and to help inform audiences who lack access to reliable information. 

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Reporting on Vaccine Inequity: Here's What to Know.

COVID-19 has exposed flaws within health care systems globally. Among these has been the striking inequity in access to vaccines between high and low-income countries.

In a recent ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum session, panelists discussed factors that contribute to vaccine inequity, the important role played by journalists

New ICFJ Resources to Help Journalists in Ukraine, Russia and Beyond

For weeks, journalists in Ukraine and around the world have been reporting on a harrowing war. Many in Ukraine have become conflict reporters overnight. Independent Russian journalists, most now in exile, are working to get information to audiences awash in government propaganda. And journalists elsewhere are helping their communities understand what this conflict means for them.

Words Unbound: A Conversation on Free Speech Now and Then

Journalists often are the first ones in a community looking at the facts of a situation, shaping the narrative – and the first to be jailed by authoritarian governments clamping down, said Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, whose new book, PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line, focuses on brave journalists

Journalism and the Pandemic Project: Assessing and Responding to COVID-19’s Long-Term Impacts

COVID-19 might not have resulted in the global news media extinction event predicted, but unrelenting waves of coronavirus over the past two years have taken a very significant toll on journalism globally.

For many journalists the prolonged and uncertain nature of the pandemic has presented a series of unique personal and professional challenges. Newsrooms were stretched to capacity, journalists became mentally and physically exhausted, some lost their lives to the virus, and many states used COVID-19 to restrict media freedom.

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

This Media Startup in Egypt is Helping Journalism Students Pitch to Global Outlets

Growing up in Egypt, Dina Aboughazala was displeased with the way mainstream Western media outlets covered her country. The reporting often fixated on the negative, leaving her disheartened.