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The Future of Journalism Is Already Here… If We Choose to Support It  - Information Saves Lives | Internews By Meera Selva, Internews Europe CEO  We are at a moment of both promise and peril for democracy. We have been here before, and we will no doubt be here again, but this is a moment when we need to thi...

Internews Europe CEO @meeraselva.bsky.social: "Journalism needs systems of support, such as legal protection, financial stability, and professional solidarity. Without these, heroism becomes the default, and heroism is not a business model.”

Full blog ➡️ bit.ly/4kKLmdX

#Journalism #PressFreedom

📣Our 2025 Internews Mission Report is out. In a year when “truth is contested, and information is weaponised,” journalists and creators around the world kept communities informed against extraordinary odds.

Grateful to everyone who made this work possible. Read the report bit.ly/3ZsavAv

In crises, secure access to information is essential — not optional ℹ️ Thanks to @surfshark.bsky.social, Internews supported 100 partners with secure VPN access, helping journalists work safely under surveillance and censorship.
bit.ly/4kBQb9p

#JournalismUnderThreat #DigitalSecurity #PressFreedom

Today @tepsa.bsky.social #ActEU Final Conference Internews CEO, @meeraselva.bsky.social joined a panel on media’s role in shaping discourse. With local journalism in decline, culture wars intensify—from immigration to bike lanes. Shared narratives matter; without local reporting, division grows.

🌳Journalists in Indonesia & Vietnam: join our workshop in Medan, Sumatra, this May, to deepen your understanding of forest governance, strengthen solutions-focused reporting on forest loss and help audiences hold governments and harmful actors accountable. Apply by Feb 6: https://loom.ly/wrVTiO8

FINAL CALL! 📣 The application deadline for our MENA Impact Creators Fellowship is midnight January 25th.

Internews is looking for an experienced Project Director to lead a new 3-year project that will leverage the power of media and civil society to contribute towards more sustainable and fair forest governance in Asia and Africa 🌳⚖️

Apply TODAY ➡️ bit.ly/3YwXdlC

Not one to miss! 👇

Applications are open for the Impact Creators Fellowship!

🌍 For MENA digital storytellers
💰 Micro-grants up to $3,000
🎓 Mentorship & training
🌐 Networking & global visibility

Deadline: Jan 25, 2026

🔗 bit.ly/4qfVEnU

#ImpactCreators #MediaEthics #MENA #فرصة_زمالة #DigitalStorytelling

This #16DaysOfActivism, Safe Sisters – a joint initiative by Internews & DefendDefenders – invites you to imagine a world without online gender-based violence, where digital spaces are safe for everyone 💻🔒

Share your vision ⬇️

🔗 bit.ly/4rF5l0L

#StopOnlineHarm #DigitalSafety #ProtectWomenOnline

Calling all #climate #environment and #biodiversity media friends to listen to Internews' @earthjournalism.bsky.social Asia-Pacific Environmental Programs Manager, Amy Sim Kok Eng, on the latest episode of the LRF Institute Risk Radar podcast!🎙️

👂 bit.ly/4plzwbQ

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INFORMATION SAVES LIVES: SUPPORT ASIA’S RECOVERY AFTER DEVASTATING FLOODS - Information Saves Lives | Internews In November 2025, typhoons and cyclones swept across Asia, triggering catastrophic floods in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and beyond. Entire communities have been submerged, thousands disp...

Asia’s flood disaster demands urgent action! 🚨

Over 1,300 lives lost. Millions displaced. Misinformation spreading fast.

Help Internews keep communities informed and safe.

DONATE NOW 👉 bit.ly/49T3eA7

#SoutheastAsia #SouthAsia #Floods2025 #ClimateCrisis #FloodDisaster #AsiaFloods #TyphoonCrisis

AI and Synthetic Media are Harming Our Information Ecosystems More Than They Are Benefitting Them - Information Saves Lives | Internews By Rafiq Copeland, Senior Technical Advisor at Internews At Internews, we think a lot about information ecosystems. Far beyond just traditional news media, these relational webs of actors and infrastr...

The benefits of #GenAI for media should not be ignored. Framing it as a fix for society’s information challenges? Even worse.

Our Senior Technical Advisor on why these technologies disrupt global & local information ecosystems ⬇️

🔗 bit.ly/4inZd90

#ArtificialIntelligence #Journalism #TechForGood

Casualty of War: Sudan’s Media Emergency - Nieman Reports A new report by Internews examines the country’s fragile media ecosystem, engulfed in a new wave of information warfare

Sudan’s civil war has put journalists in grave danger & press freedom is under siege. Internews Europe CEO @meeraselva.bsky.social's op-ed in @niemanreports.org calls for urgent global action to protect independent media 📰💻

🔗 bit.ly/49ARmm9

#PressFreedom #Sudan #IndependentMedia #Journalism

In places where truth is under attack, secure communication is everything 🛜

Thanks to #NordSecurity, Internews partners in 6 countries are bypassing censorship and keeping communities informed.

This tech is more than a product: it’s protection.

🔗 bit.ly/47uveqH

#MediaSecurity #TechForGood

Journalism is the oxygen of democracy: How Sudan’s information crisis reflects a global reality When reporters are silenced, communities lose more than news — they lose safety and dignity. Sudan’s media crisis shows why journalism everywhere is a lifeline.

Our Europe CEO @meeraselva.bsky.social writes in @globalvoices.org about how Sudan’s once promising nascent journalism scene is being dismantled ⛓️‍💥

“Investing in resilient media ecosystems is not a luxury; it is a necessity. It is a prerequisite for peace and justice.”

📰🔗 bit.ly/3Jlabz1

#Media

Elevating Coverage of Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health for Media Representatives

Jeanne Bourgault, US CEO and President of the Alliance, joined a powerful conversation last week hosted by @pmnch.bsky.social on how journalism can better serve global health equity 🌍🩺

For practical tools on creating impact and boosting public understanding of #WCAH 👉 bit.ly/4oibvRW

Internews Europe is inviting applications from qualified evaluators to conduct the final evaluation of the project “Support for Ukrainian Media Survival (SUMS)”, a multi-year initiative funded by Sweden.

Apply here 👉 bit.ly/4nRFTCX

#jobs #Ukraine #evaluators #media

New EU-funded independent frontline and investigative journalism project launches in Ukraine - Information Saves Lives | Internews KYIV, UKRAINE (10 October 2025) – A new European Union-funded initiative, the Frontline and Investigative Reporting Media in Ukraine (FAIR Media Ukraine)project, has launched to strengthen independent...

🚨 Big news for Ukraine’s media!

FAIR Media Ukraine has just launched: a €3m EU-funded project, led by Internews & the Media Development Foundation, to support frontline & investigative journalism.

🔗 bit.ly/3KRsSKW

#Ukraine #MediaFreedom #EU #JournalismMatters

Beyond the Headlines - The compelling case for more philanthropic funding for independent media - Civitates Civitates has released 'Beyond the Headlines' - a new report making the case for why independent media urgently needs more philanthropic support.

📰 🔔 Journalism is democracy’s early warning system.
The new @civitates.bsky.social report shows how pooled funding can protect it.

At Internews, we’re proud to align with this vision through our new programme model and projects like AGILE.

🔗 bit.ly/4oeFWIB

#MediaResilience #CivicSpace

Global Press to shut down after 20 years, citing 'out of reach' philanthropic support - Alliance magazine A major journalism house dedicated to training women journalists is to shut down at the end of 2025, citing the collapse of philanthropic support.  Global Press, first formed in 2006, trained and empl...

Insightful reporting by @shafimusaddique.bsky.social for Alliance Magazine on the shrinking of both private and state funding for journalism and media, as described in our 'Crisis in Journalism' report 📰📱

🔗 bit.ly/4mzsBcM

#philanthropy #funding #media #journalism

Fighting Fire With Fire – AI and Disinformation - Information Saves Lives | Internews By Rafiq Copeland, Senior Technical Advisor at Internews With one of the highest rates of social media use in the world, the Philippines has become known as ‘patient zero’ in the fight against online ...

🚨 New blog: How Internews & its partners harness AI responsibly - protecting the truth, supporting media, and keeping communities informed.

Read how ➡️ bit.ly/3VoteL5

#AI #Philippines #disinformation #media #hackathon #LLM

When the Digital Safety Net Collapses — Lessons from the Global Technology Hub  - Information Saves Lives | Internews By Andrew Ford Lyons, Director of the Global Technology Hub The story of Internews’ Global Technology Hub (GTH) is, in many ways, the story of what happened across the wider digital freedom community ...

A new blog by our colleague @andrewfordlyons.net on the incredible work of Internews’ Global Technology Hub (GTH) and the human cost of the fragility of the digital freedom ecosystem 📉

🔗 bit.ly/4gxY260

#DigitalRights #technologysolutions #DigitalSafety

Call for applications: Final evaluation of the CARAVAN Project - Information Saves Lives | Internews Internews is inviting applications from qualified teams of experts or organisations to conduct the final evaluation of the regional project titled “Cultivating Audience Resilience through Amplificatio...

Internews is inviting applications from qualified teams of experts or organisations to conduct the final evaluation of the regional project titled “Cultivating Audience Resilience through Amplification of Vibrant and Authentic Narratives (CARAVAN).”

Apply today! bit.ly/46k1UCF

#CentralAsia #jobs

2025 State of the Union Address by President von der Leyen President von der Leyen delivered the first State of the Union Address of the 2024-2029 Commission. \n

Vital points were raised at the @ec.europa.eu 2025 State of the Union Address by President von der Leyen yesterday about the urgent need to support independent journalism and media literacy ℹ️

A transcript of the President's address is available ➡️ bit.ly/42oaLlJ

#mediafreedom #medialiteracy

The Global Impact of U.S. Funding Cuts on Journalism and Internet Freedom  - Information Saves Lives | Internews By Andrew Ford Lyons, Director of the Global Technology Hub  Media support and internet freedom have always been fellow travellers. The internet isn’t as useful without fact-based, independent news an...

Great piece by our colleague @andrewfordlyons.net on the global impact of U.S. Government funding cuts on journalism and internet freedom ℹ️👇 internews.org/blog/the-glo...

Philanthropy Must Step Up To Save Independent Media - Information Saves Lives | Internews In January this year, the US Government suspended almost all foreign assistance, slashing $150 million annually from global independent media funding. To some, this may sound like a geopolitical budge...

Flexible, strategic, & rapid funding to protect independent media is an obligation for any donor committed to democratic values and human dignity 💡

Read our latest piece on why, as governments retreat, philanthropy must step up! ⬆️

🔗 bit.ly/46ttBLc

We're so proud of @lpostcollective.bsky.social and its partners as they launch the Immigrant News Coalition! 🚀

This powerful peer-ed collaboration will strengthen immigrant-centered journalism and build sustainable models for the future.

More on the initiative 👉 bit.ly/46ngbjX

The recent U.S. Government funding cuts are threatening the survival of hundreds of community radio stations and independent media outlets across Sub-Saharan Africa 📻🗞️

More on this from our latest report 'Crisis in Journalism' 👇

🔗 bit.ly/3TLerte