Media sustainability

The suspension of public advertising contracts with news outlets by the Trinidad and Tobago government is increasing financial pressure on the country's independent media.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are due to vote soon on the priorities and allocation of funds dedicated to journalism under the new AgoraEU programme, which aims to support all creative sectors.

This investigative outlet relies on a unique model: a binational, gender-balanced editorial team, made up of Palestinians, residents of the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza or citizens of Israel, and Jewish Israelis.

The debate on the Darcos bill is stalled in France’s National Assembly. This proposed law on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI) would help prohibit AI providers from using copyrighted content without remunerating the creators

With less than a year to go to a French presidential election in which victory by a political movement hostile to press freedom is now a real possibility, RSF is launching the Resilience programme.

Benin has fallen 21 places in a year in RSF’s World Press Freedom Index, and now ranks 113th out of 180 countries and territories.

The Australian Government has proposed taxing major platforms that do not negotiate commercial agreements with news publishers.

The Council of Culture Ministers of the European Union (EU) has endorsed the creation of a dedicated “news and journalism” strand within the future AgoraEU programme. Now, the challenge will be to allocate substantial financial resources.

The Forum on Information and Democracy has published a new report entitled “Ads for News, News for Ads: The role of government in reforming the digital advertising market.”