As systematic persecution by the Ortega-Murillo regime forces entire newsrooms to flee, exile has become a defining feature of Nicaraguan journalism. At the Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, reporters shared their efforts to report, resist and stay safe.
Researchers from the Worlds of Journalism Study examined safety, editorial freedom, and pressures facing journalists in 11 Latin American countries. At the Iberoamerican Colloquium on Digital Journalism in Austin, they shared findings from Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico.
At the Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism, outlets from across the region shared initiatives to confront funding challenges, declining trust, the rise of AI, and attacks on the press.
The late Max McCombs, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. pioneered the internationally-recognized theory on the agenda-setting role of media.
“You have to go” is the phrase that defines the exile of Venezuelan journalists and the title of the most recent investigation by Luz Mely Reyes, co-founder of digital media outlet Efecto Cocuyo. Her new study reveals how censorship and persecution have forced many to leave their country and reinvent themselves abroad.
These two tools work like research assistants to help journalists search through documents and come away with summaries, and also aid in analyzing data more easily.
Political journalists warn that Trump in his second term shows an unprecedented disregard for democratic norms. With no internal dissent, his loyal allies enable his efforts to distort reality and sideline critical media.
Journalists from El Salvador, India, Hungary and Turkey share how autocratic regimes in their countries have weakened freedom of expression and offer U.S. journalists a glimpse of what may come.
At the 26th International Symposium on Online Journalism, Los Angeles Times Editor Terry Tang addressed the newspaper’s latest wave of layoffs and financial struggles while defending the newsroom’s editorial independence and the vital role of local journalism in times of crisis.
The 26th International Symposium on Online Journalism explored the latest challenges–and opportunities– for journalism brought on by AI, threats to democracy, digital content creators and more.
Speaking at the 26th ISOJ, Katherine Maher warned that ending federal funding could dismantle the U.S. public national network and harm access to information in rural and underserved communities that rely on public media as their primary source of local news.
Speakers at ISOJ 2025 discussed threats and opportunities for innovation presented by artificial intelligence as the technology is rapidly changing how journalism is practiced.