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.
Meet the journalists training the AI models that might replace them
“If [models] were a vehicle, AI would be the car and humans would be the fuel behind the whole thing,” says one of the reporters who’s worked for Meta
What does it mean for journalism to be open?
We asked this question to journalists and representatives of journalism organizations from the iMEdD network who joined us at SNF Nostos 2026 and took part in this year's event.
Putting disability at the center of the story
Journalists, editors, and media innovators spoke to iMEdD about the visibility of journalists with disabilities and how they rethink who gets to make the news, whose experiences shape coverage, and which audiences' journalism is meant to serve.
Keeping the lights on: independent journalism under siege in Georgia
As Georgia has dropped to 135th place in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index amid unprecedented hostility towards journalists, iMEdD spoke with representatives of four independent media outlets about the challenges facing journalism in the country: imprisonments, attacks, "foreign agent" laws, and the struggle for survival.
Inside press freedom’s emergency rooms
On the other side of journalists’ SOS messages are emergency teams responding to them. Like the reporters they assist, they are navigating multiple crises at once. Three emergency team members spoke to iMEdD about what has changed and what it now takes to keep journalists safe.
Vodcasts – from the golden age of narrative podcasts to the talk show gold rush
Today, well-coiffed podcasters – increasingly, celebrities – with gleaming smiles chat with their guests in set-designed studios. Funded by Big Tech, which has snapped up the formerly independent studios that used to produce podcasts, now most successful podcasts have some sort of video component.
Why some wars don’t make headlines
As media attention is focused on Iran and the wider region, journalists from Uganda, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia reflect on why so many conflicts go ignored.
China’s “double-use” vessels and the journalists that mapped their movements
The journalists from Mongabay and CNN behind the recent investigation into the activity of the Chinese deep-sea mining fleet discuss the idea, the data-centric approach, the methodology, and the steps they followed for a collaborative investigation that lasted one year and was carried out with the support of the Pulitzer Center.