FORUM 2025
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INTERVIEW
Laura Hazard Owen, Harvard’s influential online publication for media, spoke to iMEdD about violence, censorship, and why she still believes in defending the First Amendment.
Tools & Practices
All eyes on earth: Strategies and tools for environmental stories
As climate change impacts communities worldwide, journalists shared strategies and tools to help turn attention to the planet’s most pressing issues.
IMEDDJF25
Tempi train crash: “The whole system was blind”
ALL STORIES
The panel discussion for the Tempi train crash highlighted how four frontline reporters covered the railway tragedy.
DATA
STORIES
Tools, news and practices from the data journalism community, useful for everyone
A guide for journalists on how to observe and measure the reduction of water reserves in water bodies, like the Aposelemi Dam in Crete, with the use and the analysis of satellite images.
We have collected historical data on the water reserves in Attica's reservoirs and are publishing it as an open dataset.
We attended the 5th European Conference on Data Journalism and Computational Journalism, held for the first time in Athens. Here, we gather some of the key takeaways.
Although social media is an important “channel” for publishing journalistic investigations, it is also a rich source of information for all kinds of journalistic research. At the Dataharvest 2025 conference, we learned useful ways in which journalists can gather data from platforms for their investigations.
PRESS FORWARD
Features and analyses about the present and future of journalism
Pulitzer winner Martha Mendoza reflects on her career and landmark contributions to journalism in the public interest.
In a free-flowing conversation curated by the Pew-Knight Initiative for iMEdD's 2025 International Journalism Forum, four journalists discuss how the transfer of power from traditional media gatekeepers to the general public is playing out.
Journalists Laís Martins and Pablo Jiménez Arandia talk to iMEdD about their investigations on the “big issue of our time: how the world is going to sustain the development of AI.”
Professor Nick Diakopoulos speaks to iMEdD about how generative artificial intelligence is affecting newsrooms and journalism’s comparative advantage in content production.
Can a cartoon be "born" from an algorithm? If so, what does this mean for the future of satire and commentary? An AI researcher and four cartoonists speak to iMEdD. The latter explain why, after experimenting, they chose to leave it out of the picture —for now.
With the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas being a reality, five journalists and media professionals share their perspectives on covering a war that has resulted in the highest number of journalist casualties in history.
EDITOR’S
PICKS
Curated stories and reports from the iMEdD journalism team.
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Stories
“Never a good time to break down” – Journalists in Gaza continue to report amidst fear for their lives
Four Gazan journalists reflect on how it feels to be reporting after nearly 20 months of war.
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Interview
“I need to see his face”: The photographer of Trump’s assassination attempt
Award-winning Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford spoke to iMEdD about the story behind the photo of Donald Trump's assassination attempt.
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Stories
MATRIX: A murdered journalist and the mafia’s crypto-phones
How the murder of a journalist in Amsterdam is linked to the investigation of organized crime in Athens.
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Data
Armaments: Israel and the others
Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on international arms transfers to Israel, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen and Palestine. What does the data on the quantity and origin of transfers show?
PODCASTS
Audio documentaries for the public, audio series for journalism
OPINIONS
Showcasing insights that challenge perspectives
