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ICFJ Statement of Support for John-Allan Namu and Africa Uncensored

In the midst of anti-government protests that have rocked Kenya in recent weeks, authorities are targeting Africa Uncensored – the pioneering, independent news outlet co-founded by ICFJ Knight Award winner John-Allan Namu – with false and dangerous allegations.

ICFJ calls for Release of Acclaimed Guatemalan Journalist on Two-Year Anniversary of his Imprisonment

Zamora, 67, founder of the newspaper elPeriódico, was arrested on July 29, 2022, on trumped up charges of money laundering, payback for hard-hitting reporting on the alarming level of corruption in Guatemala, some linked to former President Alejandro Giammattei and his cronies. The newspaper closed in May 2023 due to legal harassment and financial difficulties.  ICFJ has been a leading voice demanding Zamora, one of Central America’s most celebrated journalists, be released. He is a winner of the prestigious ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award.

Exiled Journalists Provide Vital Reporting to Russian Audiences, Even As Kremlin Cracks Down

A Russian court last week sentenced Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal to 16 years in a penal colony, following a sham trial on false charges of espionage. Then news emerged this week that another journalist, Alsu Kurmasheva of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was sentenced the same day to more than six years in prison.

Factchequeado: Fact-Checking in the Aftermath of the Assassination Attempt Against Trump

In the wake of the assassination attempt against former U.S. President and current Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, mis- and disinformation is rampant — and Spanish-language falsehoods are no exception.

Advice for Journalists Forced Into Exile

IJNet’s Exiled Media Toolkit, developed in collaboration with the Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO), features advice from journalists with first-hand knowledge of the challenges exiled journalists face. It includes tips on how exiled outlets can remain relevant to their audiences, how to measure their impact from exile – which can be especially difficult under an authoritarian regime – and the importance of maintaining a network of journalists in-country. The resource package also includes case studies of exiled journalists from Myanmar, Russia and Nicaragua, which shed light on the paths taken by three different outlets to establish themselves abroad, each amid uniquely trying circumstances.

Exiled But Not Silenced: Russian Journalists Receive Training, Support to Continue Independent Reporting

It has never been easy to operate as an independent journalist in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But following the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, journalists face even greater challenges and threats.

Tips for Covering the Republican and Democratic National Conventions

"Even though there's a zillion other reporters running around, and even though the conventions are very scripted, and [...] even though our access as reporters may in some ways be more limited than the past, I'm very curious to see what [they] look like,” said Craig Gilbert, political columnist and former Washington Bureau Chief at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, during an IJNet Crisis Reporting Forum session.

ICFJ Voices: Justina Asishana, Driving Impact Through Integrity and Coalition

For Justina Asishana, journalism is about integrity and impact. From documenting the dangerous decline in Nigeria’s health system to reporting directly from internally displaced person’s camps in the midst of the pandemic, she is meticulous and people-focused in her investigations and has a proven record of influence. Here’s what Asishana had to say about her work at the Africa Women Journalism Project.

ICFJ Knight Fellow Receives María Moors Cabot Prize’s ‘Special Citation’

The jury for Columbia Journalism School’s prestigious María Moors Cabot Prize has recognized ICFJ Knight Fellow Laura Zommer of Argentina as a 2024 special citation recipient, describing the journalist as “a visionary and a beacon of integrity and innovation in modern journalism in the Americas.”

ICFJ Joins 60-Plus Media, Civil Society Organizations in Urging Israel to Open Access to Gaza

We, the undersigned, request that Israeli authorities end immediately the restrictions on foreign media entering Gaza and grant independent access to international news organizations seeking to access the territory.