Accessibility isn’t optional
For many people, avoiding the news is a choice. For millions of people with disabilities, it can be the result of something else: a news industry that was not designed with accessibility in mind.
The cockroaches’ reckoning: How Gen Z protests exposed India’s ‘lapdog media’ and ushered in a new wave of reporters
As young demonstrators turned their backs on TV anchors, a new generation of phone-and-mic journalists covered a movement that shook the establishment
Turning investigations into games
Journalism is searching for new ways to hold readers’ attention. Can games built from investigative reporting keep audiences engaged?
Opening the “black box” with explainable AI – a conversation with Menna El-Assady
With artificial intelligence tools having overwhelmed work routines and even our daily lives, Menna El-Assady, computer science professor and head of the Interactive Visualization & Intelligence Augmentation Lab of ETH Zurich, explains what we should avoid, what are the real questions and how we can understand what really happens inside AI models.
Retrieving and processing OpenStreetMap data
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is a "treasure trove" hiding in plain sight for any journalistic mapping project. We present how one can retrieve and process OpenStreetMap data using Python or QGIS.
Rhett Butler on Mongabay’s global reporting network and impact-driven environmental journalism
Rhett Butler, founder and CEO of Mongabay, speaks to iMEdD about Mongabay’s transformation from a one-man project into a global media non-profit reporting on nature, and the “recipe” for driving impact.
Notes from an Existential Editor: On vulnerability
Line Vaaben, existential editor at Politiken and a mentor at the trauma and resilience retreat, reflects on why journalists who cover trauma must dare to be wounded.
The thrill and skill of young reporters in the field
Radio Workshop’s Mike Rahfaldt discussed how critical it is for early career journalists to gain experiences away from their screens. After a week of live radio shows, youth reporters from South Africa, Greece, and Zambia shared how it feels to report out of your comfort zone.