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ICFJ President on 2022 Themes in Global Media

In a recent McKinsey article, journalists, media executives, columnists, commentators and media critics offered their perspectives on what business stories will make the news in 2022, from climate change and misinformation to the growing role of artificial intelligence and global supply-chain challenges. They also wrote about what is not likely to merit headlines -- but should. 

ICFJ Award Winners Show the Power of Journalism in Dangerous Times

Last night, at ICFJ’s Tribute to Journalists 2021, we celebrated outstanding colleagues who produce stellar work in the public interest even as the landscape for truth tellers becomes more perilous around the world.

The urgency of the threat was spelled out in powerful remarks by the evening’s honorees – Bill Whitaker of CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic, investigative journalist Pavla Holcová of the Czech Republic and fact-checking leader Natália Leal of Brazil.

Anne Applebaum Accepts ICFJ Excellence in International Reporting Award

Colleagues, friends, and fellow journalists! Thank you so much for this award. To receive it from this institution is truly humbling. The International Center for Journalists has created a network that includes thousands of people who report, write, and take photographs in profoundly difficult circumstances. They do so while living in dictatorships, fighting wars, experiencing cataclysmic natural disasters. Some of them pay an enormous personal price to do what they do. But they know how important it is to write the first draft of history, to inform their fellow citizens, to inform the world about what is happening around them.

Bill Whitaker Accepts ICFJ Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism

Good evening. First, congratulations to Anne Applebaum on her ICFJ Excellence in International Reporting Award. Every reporter among us is covering a world under authoritarian threat that Anne has been warning about for decades.
 

Pavla Holcová Accepts ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award

I would like to express my thanks to ICFJ, and to all the people from OCCRP and investigace.cz who pushed me (and my limits) to be the journalist I am today.

Natália Leal Accepts ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award

Receiving this award is one of the greatest moments in my career as a journalist. I want to thank the International Center for Journalists for considering my work to be fundamental in these unusual times. 

How Journalists Can Best Report on Mental Health and Suicide

The World Health Organization estimates that suicide is the cause of more than 700,000 deaths annually. Of these, over three in four occur in low- and middle-income countries. 

Agência Lupa’s Natália Leal Counters Misinformation with Persistent Fact-Checking

Early in her career, Brazilian reporter Natália Leal held a fundamental concern: Journalists would take unvetted claims from public figures and place them directly in front of readers. It didn’t sit right with her. 

Czech Journalist Pavla Holcová Stresses the Value of Cross-Border Collaboration

If not for Czech investigative journalist Pavla Holcová, the world might not know the true extent of ties between the Italian mafia and the Slovak government, or who was allegedly behind the murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee. We certainly wouldn’t know enough.

Embrace Your Inner Nerd to Improve Your Journalism

There is no shortage of digital tools and techniques that you can use to enhance your reporting ــــــ from identifying what stories to tell, and collecting and analyzing data, to more effectively sharing your reporting with a target audience. 

There’s a nerd inside us all we can embrace to accomplish these goals. Here’s how.