Op-Eds

By Michael Miller. Today marks World News Day, when newsrooms worldwide make the same point in unison: that trustworthy reporting isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline. This year, that point needs making more urgently than most.

By Marcelo Rech. Around the world and at any period in history, practicing journalism carries a profound sense of mission – a kind of special priesthood driven by the conviction that free and reliable information possesses the power to positively transform society, or at least slow down the processes of civilizational degradation. In Latin America,…

By Branko Brkic and Tina Brown. There is a curious thing about journalism: Everyone seeking power calls us dead but still wants to control it.

By Anna Mae Lamentillo. As I conduct a language audit of Metro Manila, I am struck by a paradox. This metropolis is home to at least 217 languages, a figure that grows with every new community I encounter. Yet some of the Philippines’ Indigenous and regional languages are fading before our eyes.

By Ritu Kapur. As India marked eighty years of independence this August, I found myself grappling with the very idea of “press freedom”. Because who exactly is the “press” anymore?

By Stig Ørskov. 2026 was destined to be a big year for football headlines. So far it has certainly lived up to expectation, with the men’s World Cup providing both glory and controversy, sometimes in equal measure. But front and back pages have also been dominated by off the field concerns, and in particular the…

By Phil Chetwynd. The obituaries of news agencies have been written on many occasions over the past two decades.

By Oksana Brovko. Around 80% of the print run of a local Ukrainian newspaper was burned in a Russian attack. The newsroom had already been destroyed. Yet the newspaper still had to reach its readers.

By Natalia Antelava. I recently reread my father’s diaries from the 1960s: pages of hurried scribbles of an ambitious twenty-something, furious about the hypocrisies and injustices around him.

By Meera Selva. This is the year the world caught fire.  Often literally – wildfires across Europe and America stopped even the most vocal of climate change skeptics. But also figuratively. We are reminded again how global supply chains are vulnerable to geopolitical shocks, how endless wars force whole communities into spaces they do not…

By Lionel Barber. In a radio address in December 1940, one year before the US entered World War II, Franklin D Roosevelt described America as “the arsenal of democracy”. Today, the guns are falling silent across the western front. Independent journalism, the lifeblood of an informed democracy, faces existential challenges, particularly in the US.

By Garry Pierre-Pierre. Last July, news that Haitian businessman and politician Reginald Boulos had been arrested began circulating widely across social media.

By Charles M. Sennott. What would happen if the same attack occurred today amid the crisis in local news?

By Caroline Vuillemin. When communities are cut off by conflict, displaced by violence, or trying to survive a humanitarian crisis, reliable information becomes even more of a practical necessity. Local journalists and public interest media outlets are often the only actors capable of reaching those communities in their own languages and through trusted channels, with…

By Carlos Fernando Chamorro. For Confidencial, reinventing journalism in exile is not a matter of aesthetic change; it is a strategy for resistance and survival to defeat censorship.

By Branko Brkic. World News Day, 28 September 2026

By Alia Ibrahim. For a couple of months in 2020, my dining-room table was covered by a huge map detailing the companies connected to Lebanon’s central bank governor, Riad Salameh. We had been investigating him for months, and by then it was clear to us that he owned at least two dozen companies, many of…

By David Walmsley, Mariya Gabriel, and Liz Corbin. We are not short of information. We have never had more of it. Yet across the world, people struggle to answer the simplest questions: What actually happened? Who decided what? Is it true?

By Kyle Pope. As awful as the climate headlines have been in 2026 – from melting glaciers to historic wildfires to deadly heatwaves – here’s a sobering fact: there is a very good chance this will be the coolest year of the rest of your life.

By Alberto Ibargüen. When a community is no longer well-informed, a slow social and political train crash follows. We’re already on that track – but it isn’t too late to stop it.

By Fernando Belzunce. Misinformation has ceased to be a system malfunction and has become part of its very logic.