5 elections to watch in 2025
Only a fool or charlatan will pretend to predict the future, so it’s usually best to avoid election forecasting. So instead, The Conversation asked experts on five countries – Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines – to explain what is at stake as those nations go to the ballot.
Fact-Checking Under Fire
Following Mark Zuckerberg's unexpected decision to end third party fact-checking in the U.S., iMEdD explores how Europe is responding to the new reality on Facebook.
Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking partnership with US partners. Here’s how that program works.
Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists and will instate a Community Notes model like X.
The year newsrooms tackle their structural issues
In 2025, newsrooms must align editorial, product, and tech teams to address silos and create seamless, reader-focused experiences.
Influencers become journalists
Influencers are becoming journalists, blurring lines as social media reshapes how audiences consume news and information.
Young journalists will reimagine a better press
A new generation of journalists will redefine the press, focusing on truth, accountability, and strengthening democracy.
Newsrooms reinvent their political journalism
Newsrooms must rethink political journalism in 2025, prioritizing data, relevance, and connecting stories to people’s lives.
Journalism education leads the change we seek
Journalism education in 2025 will tackle misinformation, embrace AI, foster global perspectives, and support diversity and local news.
Reporting from Damascus
Elvira Krithari, the first Greek journalist to enter Syria after the fall of Assad, talks to iMEdD about working conditions on the ground and the presence of foreign journalists in Damascus.
“Do whatever you need to do to survive in Syria”: the person behind Assad’s overthrow
