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10/07/2025
Taliban repression silences award-winning Afghan woman journalist
The current holder of the prestigious Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year Award has been forced to stop reporting over fears for her safety in Afgha...
08/07/2025
MediaSafe Africa: A New Digital Safety Resource for Journalists
In an era where digital threats to journalists are becoming increasingly aggressive and widespread, MediaSafe Africa launches as a vital online resource to help...
24/06/2025
Young Journalist Award 2025 is open for entries
Have you got what it takes to be Thomson's Young Journalist of the Year 2025? If youre a journalist aged 30 or under, this is your moment. Entries are now o...
03/06/2025
Thomson Talks at Cambridge University: New Report Charts a Way Forward on Disinformation
What does it take to push back against disinformation in a world of fragmented a...
16/05/2025
New Study Reveals Changing Audience Behaviours in Eastern Europe
Across Central and Eastern Europe, journalism is no longer the default source of information. It competes and often loses against a chaotic content stream drive...
16/05/2025
Entries Open for the 2025 EU Investigative Journalism Award
Journalists working in investigative reporting across the Western Balkans and T rkiye are encouraged to enter their published work for the 2025 edition of the E...
12/05/2025
A practical framework for AI integration in newsrooms
As newsrooms around the world begin to experiment with artificial intelligence, many are asking the same question: how do we move beyond isolated pilots and emb...
09/05/2025
Journalism Under Gender Apartheid: An Interview with Malala Yousafzai and Zahra Joya
At the Frontline Club in London, a venue long associated with media freedom and ...
01/05/2025
Safety, media freedom and integrity top agenda for World Press Freedom Day
As Tanzania approaches a pivotal election year marked by both promise and concern over the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on media, more than 300 journa...
23/04/2025
Finding Accountability
In 2024, Thomson's Total Turnout project played a pivotal role in elevating ethical election reporting and strengthening journalist safety in Pakistan. Wit...
16/04/2025
A Voice Amidst Conflict
At a time when Sudanese women journalists face unprecedented challenges, She Speaks Sudan has provided a critical platform for training, mentorship, and collabo...
15/04/2025
We refuse to be erased: Zahra Joya on the women reporting under Taliban rule
As women in Afghanistan are stripped of their rights - banned from education, barred from public life and rendered invisible - a number of women journalists con...
14/04/2025
Reporting the Change
Rwanda's vulnerability to climate change is underscored by its ranking of 124th out of 182 countries in the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative's in...
19/03/2025
Validation Booster: Funding and Mentorship for European Media Innovators
Applications are open for the second cycle of the Validation Booster programme, offering European media outlets, networks, and content creators the opportunity ...
07/03/2025
The Women Journalists Defying Taliban Oppression
Increasing restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan is forcing women journalists take extraordinary risks to their own safety to tell their stories. The ...
21/01/2025
Leading journalists offer unique insights in war and conflict training course
Two senior war reporters from the BBC and Sky News have joined an outstanding array of experts in a unique series of training courses for journalists covering p...
16/01/2025
Thomson Appoints New Director of Research, Policy and Impact
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Mundy as Thomsons new Director of Research, Policy and Impact. Gary will join the organisation in March 2025,...
15/01/2025
Revolutionising News Production: Thomson's workshop at Al Jazeera's AI in Media Conference
The buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism reached a crescendo a...
08/01/2025
AI Disclosure in Journalism: New Report Highlights Challenges and Opportunities
A landmark document examining key issues into how the media industry is grappling with the challenges of explaining how its using AI in its publications and bro...
30/12/2024
21 Years of Media Development: Lessons, Challenges and Change
Leaving Thomson after 21 years, former Managing Director David Quin reflects on a career spent navigating the shifting sands of global media development. From r...
20/12/2024
Thinking of Launching a Podcast? Let Our New Guide Show You How
Podcasting has become one of the most popular ways to tell stories and connect with audiences, but getting started can be intimidating, especially when it comes...
16/12/2024
Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Thomson's AI in Media Masterclass in Prague
Thomson's Executive Learning Series wrapped up its 2024 calendar with a landmark event in Prague. The AI in Media masterclass brought together 24 media lead...
13/12/2024
Reporting in Silence: Young Journalist of the Year on working in secret under Taliban rule
Reporting in secret under the oppressive shadow of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, ...
04/12/2024
Behind the Headlines: Lessons from London for a Young Journalist Finalist
Somaiyah Hafeez, one of this year's finalists for Thomson's Young Journalist of the Year Award, had a transformative visit to London. As the only finali...
26/11/2024
Afghan Reporter Wins Young Journalist of the Year 2024
A woman journalist from Afghanistan has been named Thomson Foundation's Young Journalist of the Year 2024. The journalist, who we are not naming for her ow...
13/11/2024
EU Investigative Journalism Awards 2024 honour powerful storytelling
Award-winning journalists from the Western Balkans and T rkiye break new ground with impactful investigations on healthcare, environmental threats, human rights...
05/11/2024
Somaiyah Hafeez: Finalist for Young Journalist of the Year 2024
Somaiyah Hafeez, a journalist and writer from Balochistan, Pakistan, stands out for her commitment to telling the stories of overlooked communities in her regio...
05/11/2024
Aisha Farrukh: Finalist Young Journalist of the Year 2024
Aisha Farrukh a multimedia journalist from Pakistan focuses on human interest stories and aims to create change through her storytelling. Twenty eight year old ...
05/11/2024
Afghan woman reporter: Finalist, Young Journalist Year 2024
One of the three finalists for the Young Journalist of the Year 2024 is a woman journalist working in secret in Afghanistan because of the restrictions imposed ...
31/10/2024
Revealing our finalists for the Young Journalist of the Year 2024
Three journalists whose stories give a voice to people who are oppressed or marginalised have been chosen as the finalists for the 2024 Young Journalist of the ...
16/10/2024
New role at Thomson for Federica Varalda
We are pleased to announce that Federica Varalda has been appointed as Managing Director - Development for the Thomson Group. She will be leading project develo...
23/09/2024
Courageous journalism showcased as shortlist for Young Journalist Award 2024 announced
Reporting from a female journalist who is working in secret due to Taliban restr...
30/07/2024
Yara El Murr: A year on from winning the Young Journalist Award
We caught up with Yara El Murr, winner of the Young Journalist Award 2023, to find out how her life has changed since scooping the main prize for her investigat...
23/07/2024
Finding a Balance as AI Advances
Brussels was the location of our third Thomson Talks with Madhav Chinnappa held on 25 June 2024, focused on the specific subject of AI/News & Regulation. Four k...
03/07/2024
AI in Central European Newsrooms: Thomson s New Study Reveals Insights
AI's integration into journalism has sparked a mix of enthusiasm and scepticism across Central Europe, according to research led by Thomson Foundation in co...
01/07/2024
Entry Opens for Young Journalist of the Year 2024
This was such a confidence boost and so much motivation to keep pushing forward in my work and public service journalism. Yara El Murr from Lebanon recollecti...
21/06/2024
Competition to achieve trusted newsroom status as new campus is launched
A new platform dedicated to helping journalists win audience trust and tackle disinformation has been launched and with it a competition offering newsrooms (fro...
30/05/2024
Empowering Media Leaders: Transformative Insights from the Executive Learning Series
Navigating Strategy, Ethics, and Innovation in the evolving European media lands...
28/05/2024
AI and Disinformation in Taiwan's 2024 Election
This is a summary of the report commissioned by Thomson on AI Disinformation Attacks during Taiwans 2024 Presidential Elections, written by Professor Chen-ling ...
13/05/2024
Entry opens for EU Award for Investigative Journalism 2024
Journalists from the Western Balkans and T rkiye can now submit their investigative stories published in 2023 for the EU Award for Investigative Journalism 2024...
03/05/2024
Sudan: New WhatsApp Course Equips Journalists to Report on Conflict Related Sexual Violence
An innovative learning tool to help media and civil society better understand ho...
29/04/2024
She Speaks Sudan': Thomson launches programme to empower women journalists and civil society actors in exile
A groundbreaking initiative offering training and mentoring to 30 women journali...
23/04/2024
Tackling lies online: the answer may be all in the mind
Psychology can play an important role in helping us understand what audiences respond to (Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab) For newsroo...
10/04/2024
AI and Regulation: Advocating for an Informed and Collaborative Approach
A regulator, a technologist and a politician walking into a conference room - the beginning of a very geeky joke - or more accurately, the start of the second T...
09/04/2024
AI and Disinformation in Taiwan s 2024 Election
This is a summary of the report commissioned by Thomson on AI Disinformation Attacks during Taiwans 2024 Presidential Elections, written by Professor Chen-ling ...
04/04/2024
Rethinking how we tackle disinformation in the age of AI
This fantastic course will help you understand and fight disinformation, an absolutely essential skill to acquire during this global election season. Sign up an...
02/04/2024
Transformative Technology in challenging media landscapes
Thomson's work in captive, closed and repressive media landscapes has long been about making sure we get the best possible idea of what people really need f...
28/03/2024
No votes for all
Out of an estimated 20,000 journalists in Pakistan, less than one thousand are women according to a recent Gender Disparity Report published by the Internationa...
15/03/2024
Connecting and training Sudanese journalists-in-exile
To help empower Sudanese journalists living in exile amidst the ongoing conflict in their homeland, Thomson trainers have been delivering workshops designed to ...
01/03/2024
Award winning young journalists get their mojo in London
MoJo is something I want to pursue further and include, not as a last thought, but as a one of the components of my daily work. Michelle Banda Vodacom Young Jou...
