By John Patrick Pullen, founding editor of Long Lead My new podcast has a big problem: Despite our best intentions, there are far too many journalists appearing as sources. If you’re part of the WAN-IFRA community, you might wonder, “What’s so bad about that?” The rub is that this show isn’t about the news at…
Led by WAN-IFR in collaboration with the Association of Independent Regional Press Publishers of Ukraine (AIRPPU) and the Norwegian Media Association (MBL), with crucial financial backing from Norway, the initiative has selected 40 deserving Ukrainian independent media outlets, from 234 applicants. The grants aim to provide essential support to local and regional news organisations, enabling…
Nationwide planned demonstrations to honour people killed during last year’s anti-government protests have turned violent, with clashes between police and protesters occurring in Nairobi and around the country. Over 60 people died in June 2024 as police opened fire on a crowd that tried to storm parliament in opposition to planned tax rises. The 2024…
In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter authorized Operation Eagle Claw, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the American hostages held at the US embassy in Iran. Since then, every US president has ordered at least one — usually more than one — military intervention in the Middle East and North Africa. Under Ronald Reagan, there…
President Donald Trump is now the most unpopular he has been during his second term. More than half of American adults disapprove of the job he is doing, and he’s underwater on nearly every important issue of the day. The polling averages show this net disapproval clearly: On the economy, he’s down 13 percentage points….
Over the weekend, the United States bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran. Iran has been considered a political risk to America since the 1979 revolution, and President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that it cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. The strikes mark yet another attempt in a long-running US strategy to rein in…
President Donald Trump has framed his strikes on Iran as a costless triumph. The president is not asking Americans to accept sacrifices in service of destroying the Iranian nuclear program — only to applaud his already successful destruction of it. “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” Trump declared Saturday night….
The first phase of the programme which started in March 2025, ended in May with the selection of three Finnish media organisations. In order to be selected, each media had submitted a challenge they aimed to solve in collaboration with a tech partner. Today, we enter the second phase of the programme and launch an…
When Vice President JD Vance appeared on Meet the Press on Sunday morning, anchor Kristen Welker asked him a simple question: Is the United States now at war with Iran? In response, Vance said, “We’re not at war with Iran; we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.” This is akin to saying that, in attacking…
President Donald Trump claimed during his 2024 campaign for president that America had fought “no wars” during his first presidency, and that he was the first president in 72 years who could say that. This was not, strictly speaking, true. In his first term, Trump intensified the air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria,…