iTromsø is one of two local newsrooms serving Tromsø, a town located on a small island off the northern coast of Norway. Founded in 1898, the newspaper is part of Polaris Media, a media group with more than 70 publications across Norway and Sweden. With an editorial staff of 25 and a total circulation of…
The big Donald Trump foreign policy question heading into this week looked like it was going to be when and if the US was going to launch military strikes against Venezuela. That’s still a live question, but in the meantime, the president has threatened to attack an entirely different country on the other side of…
By Peter Vandermeersch Mediahuis Fellow: Journalism and Society When journalists are vilified online for doing their job, the damage extends beyond the individual. It corrodes public debate, deters independent reporting, and weakens democracy. Across Western Europe, the pattern is clear: coordinated waves of digital abuse, aimed mainly at women and minority journalists, with almost total…
By Dima Khatib, Palestinian journalist/Managing Director of AJ+ It is the largest massacre of journalists in human history. In Gaza, 253 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed since October 2023 — more than those killed in the wars of Afghanistan, Vietnam, the Balkans, World War I, and World War II combined. Yet these…
By Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists The public’s right to know is in serious jeopardy in the United States. The country that once proudly lauded its commitment to free expression and a free press has rapidly adopted the behavior of autocrats to stifle reporting it does not like. From new rules…
Since President Donald Trump’s second term began, his administration’s approach to China has been arguably the toughest aspect of its foreign policy to parse. In part, that’s because the top members of Trump’s team haven’t always seemed to be on the same page with each other or with the president on the question of just…
Statistically, when compared to other occupations, journalism is not considered deadly, or even high risk; labour-intensive sectors such as construction, commercial fishing, mining, etc., reflect consistently higher fatality rates per capita. The danger in threats to journalists is that any attacks go beyond individual physical harm to include a broader, deliberate attack on press freedom…
Across the keynotes and panel discussions of Paris AI Forum, one message was clear: publishers are not powerless in shaping how AI transforms media. Speakers from Reuters, The Independent, Les Échos, the BBC, and others presented their visions of how integrating AI helps journalism to streamline operations, empower journalists, and deepen trust with audiences. Here…
In Malaysia on Sunday, on the sidelines of a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, President Donald Trump presided over a ceremony for the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries had already agreed to a ceasefire back in July to end a five-day skirmish, the latest flare-up of a decades-old…
ABP Kolkata and The Times of India’s Ahmedabad and Delhi-Sahibabad plants receive Carbon Footprint Verification Certificate The print production units of Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) Kolkata and The Times of India (TOI) units in Ahmedabad and Sahibabad (Delhi) received the WAN-IFRA Carbon Footprint Verification Certificate on 15 September 2025 during the Indian Printers Summit…