Events

Get ready for a critical two-day forum hosted by Medill and the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs on October 23–24, 2025, in Evanston, Illinois. The event opens Thursday, October 23, at 5:30 pm with a keynote address by Wendy McMahon, former president of CBS News. A reception and the presentation of the James Foley-Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism will follow. On Friday, October 24, starting around 9:00 am, two in-depth panel discussions will spotlight key challenges facing journalists today: digital and physical threats in one session, and legal, financial, and institutional pressures in...

From September 29 to October 3, 2025, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meets in Strasbourg for its autumn session, with a strong spotlight on press freedom and the protection of journalists. One of the standout agenda items is a call for urgent debate on the mounting threats to journalists in Gaza, particularly regarding attacks on their lives and the destruction of media infrastructure. Another priority is the plight of Ukrainian journalists held captive by Russia, which PACE intends to raise through resolutions and political pressure. The session coincides with the awarding...

On Tuesday, 30 September 2025, at 6:00 pm, the Edinburgh & District branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), in partnership with the University of Edinburgh Ukrainian Society and the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland (USCS), will host a public screening of Vika’s Last Assignment. This documentary investigates the torture and death of Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian reporter who disappeared in occupied territory in August 2023 and later died in Russian custody under contested circumstances. Roshchyna had covered vulnerable issues such as fair trial rights, freedom of assembly, and later Russian war crimes in occupied...

You are invited to join a timely event exploring the vital role of journalism and the right to information in today’s world, drawing on insights from Delano’s recent reflection, “Why journalism and access to information matter more than ever.” Event Overview Title: Why Journalism Matters — Access, Trust & Accountability Date / Time: [To be announced] Format: Panel discussion, keynote talk, Q&A Audience: Journalists, media students, civil society, policy makers Key Topics & Themes Journalism as democratic infrastructureDelano emphasizes that journalism is not simply a profession but foundational to how societies hold power to account....

Date: 25 November 2025Location: Stationers’ Hall, London, EC4M 7DDOrganisers: Flashes & Flames & MediaVoices What It Is A one-day forum exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming the media, information, lifestyle, and events industries. The event combines case studies, panel discussions, fireside chats, and hands-on masterclasses designed for senior media executives, tech leads, content strategists, and leaders from events businesses. Key Features A conference programme with leading industry figures (CEOs, tech specialists) from over 20 organisations, talking AI impact & strategy. MediaVoices AI MasterClass workshops covering AI in management, content creation, discovery & marketing. These are...

When: 21-23 October 2025Where: Madrid, SpainWho: WAN-IFRA & FIPP (in partnership)Purpose: To bring together global media leaders, technology innovators, and publishing experts to tackle industry challenges and explore future growth. What’s On the Agenda Celebration of FIPP’s 100-year legacy uniting media executives, publishers, and innovators from around the world. Sessions and tracks focused on digital transformation, audience engagement, monetization strategies, subscription models, emerging technologies such as AI, and content innovation. Networking opportunities, case study showcases, insights into best practice in growing revenue in changing markets, and exploring how publishers are adapting to evolving consumer behavior....

The International Press Institute (IPI) will host the 2025 World Congress and Media Innovation Festival from 23 to 25 October in Vienna, gathering leading journalists, editors, and media innovators from across the globe. This year’s theme, “Defending the Future of Free Media,” underscores the urgent need to safeguard press freedom and strengthen journalism’s role in democratic societies. The congress comes at a pivotal moment, coinciding with IPI’s 75th anniversary. It will serve as both a commemoration of seven decades of defending press freedom and a platform to chart the way forward for public-interest journalism. Sessions...

The Trust Conference 2025 is slated for 21 - 22 October, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, fact-checking experts, technologists, and journalists to address urgent challenges to credibility, misinformation, and trust in journalism. Drawing from global trends and recent crises, the conference aims to tackle how media can rebuild and preserve public trust. Key Themes & Focus Areas Mis-/Disinformation & Fact Checking: Strategies to counter misinformation, improve fact-checking tools and workflows, and enhance accountability for both platforms and media outlets. Audience Trust & Media Ethics: Exploring ethical frameworks for reporting, transparency, corrections, and rebuilding trust, especially...

The Twipe Digital Growth Summit 2025 will take place on 14 October in Stuttgart, Germany, under the theme “AI, Tech & the Future of News.” Now in its 8th edition, the summit gathers publishers, product leaders, and newsroom innovators for a full day of insights, case studies, and collaboration. The program features a CEO panel with leaders from NZZ and PD Digital, a Reuters Institute study on AI presented by Nic Newman, and hands-on workshops led by media experts from Le Monde and beyond. Attendees will hear case studies on building AI-first newsroom cultures, learn...

The Climate Arena Conference 2025 is set for 10-11 October at the Gellért Campus of Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary. Organized by the Arena Climate Network (under Arena for Journalism in Europe), this conference promises a hands-on, collaborative environment for journalists, scientists, and researchers deeply invested in climate reporting. What to Expect The conference is designed not just for learning, but for doing: attendees will see how award-winning investigations are conducted, explore datasets, hear methods from experts, and establish cross-border project collaborations. Key themes include exposing environmental crimes, uncovering greenwashing, measuring the influence of corporate...

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) is hosting Publishing Tech Talk in London on 8-9 & 15-16 October 2025 at the Charlotte Street Hotel—a two-week event aimed at helping publishers sharpen their digital strategies and operational frameworks. What It Covers Week One: Artificial Intelligence (8-9 Oct)Sessions focus on implementing AI internally to improve business effectiveness. Topics include product development, editorial workflows, data analytics, customer management, and ways publishers are using AI tools to optimize performance.Also: revenue-oriented AI applications — how AI and related tech enable new income streams, enhanced ad revenue, licensing content, and better...

The iMEdD Forum 2025, one of the region’s premier media innovation gatherings, brings together journalists, digital creators, academics, media technologists, and industry leaders to explore the rapidly changing landscape of journalism. The event promises an immersive mix of panel discussions, workshops, networking opportunities, and showcases of experimental storytelling. Though full details are not yet publicly available, attendees can expect topics such as newsroom innovation, the ethical use of AI and algorithmic tools, audience engagement in multilingual and multicultural contexts, press freedom in regions experiencing conflict or political pressure, and sustainability models for independent media. Geographically,...

The International News Media Association (INMA) will host its flagship Media Innovation Week 2025 in Dublin from 23 to 26 September, bringing together editors, executives, product leaders, and innovators from across the global news industry. The four-day program will focus on transformation, technology, and the future of storytelling. The event opens on Tuesday, 23 September, with a study tour of leading Irish newsrooms including The Irish Times, RTÉ, and TheJournal.ie. Early sessions will explore the role of data in deepening audience engagement and how automation and artificial intelligence are reshaping editorial workflows. On Wednesday, 24...

From 25 to 26 September, a coalition of press freedom organisations will visit Sofia to assess Bulgaria’s media landscape, engaging with high-level stakeholders and civil society to evaluate the health of independent journalism. The mission—commissioned via the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform and the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR)—is led by groups including ARTICLE 19, RSF, IPI, the European Federation of Journalists, Index on Censorship, and others. Over the two days, the delegation will meet with Bulgaria’s President, the Ministries of Justice and Interior, the Office of the General Prosecutor, the Council of...

Entries are now officially open for the 14th British Journalism Awards, the UK’s leading celebration of public interest journalism. Journalists from across the industry—whether from local newspapers, independent podcasts, or major international outlets—are invited to submit their work before the deadline of 25 September 2025. This year’s awards dinner will take place on 11 December at the London Hilton Bankside, once again hosted by Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine. The event will showcase the best reporting of the past year, with particular recognition for journalism that brings important new information to light, demonstrates exceptional skill,...

A team from the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (CIJN) has earned major recognition for its investigative and multimedia reporting at recent regional journalism awards. The standout work, “Tricked into Sex Slavery: Global Crackdown hasn’t Stopped Caribbean Traffickers”, won the 2025 Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Excellence in Journalism Award under the Migration Journalism “Claudio Paolillo” category. The piece investigates a young Cuban migrant’s experience in Suriname, exposing human trafficking networks in the Caribbean. The same story also took top honours at the 36th Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) Awards for Excellence in Responsible Reporting on Trafficking...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) will celebrate the resilient work of global journalists at its 35th International Press Freedom Awards, taking place on November 20, 2025, in New York City. This year’s honorees represent courage under pressure from China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, and one champion of U.S. press freedom. The lineup includes: Dong Yuyu (China), imprisoned on espionage charges after a 2022 arrest. Elvira del Pilar Nole and Juan Carlos Tito (Ecuador), who fled to safety abroad after threats linked to their investigations into drug gangs. Bolot Temirov (Kyrgyzstan), now in exile, is known...

At the 2025 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Convention, several New York Times journalists and leaders were recognised for their outstanding contributions to journalism and diversity. Cheriss May, a renowned photographer, received the Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award for her decades of impactful visual storytelling. Caryn A. Wilson, director of culture and community at The Times, was honoured with the Ida B. Wells Award for her leadership in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in media. The Times also earned the Best Practices Award, reflecting its dedication to building equitable newsroom structures. The Community Service...

From July 23 to 25, 2025, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) funded an innovative environmental investigative journalism training organized by the Truth Reporting Post consortium in Atakpamé, Togo. The three-day program drew around 25 journalists from across West Africa—including Togo, Guinea, Ghana, and Benin—equipping them with open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques tailored specifically to environmental reporting, now often referred to as ECOSINT. Participants learned how to harness public data, satellite imagery, and other open-source tools to investigate critical environmental issues. One attendee noted the training’s immediate relevance: they planned to apply their new skills to probe the...

Armenia’s national journalists’ football team is preparing to compete in the European Journalists’ Football Championship, which will be held from September 11 to 14 in the Lithuanian resort city of Druskininkai. This year marks the twentieth edition of the tournament and the first time it will be staged under a new format that expands participation. A record fourteen teams are expected, with journalists from Armenia joining counterparts from Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Georgia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Greece, Serbia, and several others. The structure of the championship will feature an opening stage of group matches,...

Join celebrated journalist and author Walt Harrington for a free, one-hour presentation on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. at the Carlinville Public Library, located at 505 North Broad Street. Harrington, a former writer for The Washington Post Magazine and later a professor at the University of Illinois, moved to Carlinville with his wife in 2022. In his talk, he will delve into his 2022 book, The Detective: And Other True Stories, a collection of eight deeply reported narrative nonfiction pieces from his time at the magazine. The evening promises insights into his creative...

On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, Amnesty International UK will hold a solemn vigil to honour the more than 240 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in Gaza since October 2023—the most lethal conflict for journalists on record. The event marks exactly one month since a single Israeli airstrike tragically claimed the lives of six Al Jazeera journalists. Each of those lost will be remembered through the lighting of over 240 candles, a powerful visual tribute to their sacrifice. Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s Gaza Bureau Chief and a symbol of resilience amid unspeakable personal loss, will...

Journalist Samira Mohyeddin is set to deliver the 16th annual keynote address for the NB Media Co-op on Tuesday, September 23, 2025—a virtual event titled “The Israel Exception.” This critical talk will address the deepening crisis in journalism triggered by the ongoing genocide in Gaza, spotlighting both the staggering toll on media professionals and the distortions in Western news coverage. In her keynote, Mohyeddin will confront the harrowing loss of more than 200 journalists in Gaza, decrying the erosion of journalistic standards and credibility amid media silence and bias. She argues that many newsrooms are...

Journalism is rapidly evolving, reshaped by technology, fluid newsroom structures, and shifting audience habits, creating both uncertainty and opportunity. To help media professionals navigate this changing landscape, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering a free online course titled “Explore Your Career River: Navigate Change in Today’s Media Ecosystem,” running from October 6 to November 2, 2025. This accessible, fully asynchronous course—requiring no prior training—is open to journalists, freelancers, editors, media designers, product professionals, and executives worldwide. Guided by veteran journalist Bridget Thoreson, founder of MyCareerRiver.com and Hearken’s Chief Project Officer, participants...

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Mercer will be spotlighting his latest work on the global lobster industry, following the release of his new book. The event brings together readers, environmentalists, and industry watchers for an in-depth look at how one of the world’s most lucrative seafood trades connects climate, culture, and commerce. Over the course of four years, Mercer traveled from the rugged Atlantic coasts of Canada to seafood markets in Asia, documenting the human stories behind the lobster trade. His reporting examines the industry’s vulnerabilities in the face of climate change, overfishing, and market pressures,...