April 2, 2025
News
Coloquio | April 9, 2025
Para periodistas nicaragüenses, el exilio y la apatridia son el costo de informar en medio de la represión
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. Read More
ISOJ2025 | April 9, 2025
Scholars say disinformation, political pressure and tech disruption are reshaping journalism in Latin America
Scholars are warning that press freedom is threatened not just by dictatorships but also by democratic governments and media capture. At the Iberoamerican Colloquium on Digital Journalism, they called for innovative and collaborative responses. Read More
ISOJ2025 | April 8, 2025
Frente a la crisis, periodistas latinoamericanos apuestan por alianzas, nuevas narrativas y conexión con audiencias
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. Read More
Coloquio | April 8, 2025
Ser periodista en América Latina es cada vez más riesgoso e inestable, según nueva encuesta
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. Read More
Coloquio | April 3, 2025
Displaced journalists must adapt to new culture, language, climate, and even a different color of the sky, says Luz Mely Reyes of Venezuela
“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. Read More
ISOJ2025 | April 3, 2025
‘He was a visionary’: Journalism scholars reflect on legacy of Max McCombs at ISOJ research breakfast
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. Read More
Artificial Intelligence | April 3, 2025
Google artificial intelligence tools NotebookLM, Pinpoint offer creative techniques to increase efficiency in the newsroom
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. Read More
ISOJ2025 | April 3, 2025
Second Trump administration weaponizes chaos and overwhelms media, say journalists at ISOJ
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. Read More
Freedom of Expression | April 2, 2025
International panelists at ISOJ warn of censorship, lawsuits and other patterns in the erosion of democracies
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. Read More
ISOJ2025 | April 2, 2025
LA Times editor discusses layoffs, financial strain, and journalistic independence at ISOJ
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. Read More