World News Day 2025

Choose Truth. Choose Facts. Choose Journalism.

The 2025 World News Day campaign

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Hundreds of news organizations, media support associations, and individuals from over 100 countries have committed to raising awareness about World News Day.

Why Journalism, Facts and Truth Matter

2025 op-eds from veteran journalists

The light we cannot lose

On this World News Day, for too many people, the future is getting too dark to see. This moment is best described as living in a state of perpetual flux, of global uncertainty and deep,…
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September 28, 2025
Your right to know: Why journalism and access to information matter more than ever

Independent journalism and access to public information are mutually reinforcing: societies cannot remain informed or resilient if either is undermined, write David Walmsley and Tawfik Jelassi, who stress that defending the right to know is…
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September 28, 2025
Turning news into action: Engaging Gen Z and Millennials locally

Leaders of the award-winning, hyperlocal The Green Line share how they engage readers with news they can use in their daily lives; links they can use to fact-check information, and in-person community meetings to talk…
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September 27, 2025
Journalism under siege

It is getting harder every day to do the fundamental journalistic task of collecting facts and verifying information. It is also getting much more dangerous, writes Phil Chetwynd.
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September 26, 2025
The unseen truth about global trust in news

Luba Kassova and Richard Addy argue that the widely repeated claim that global trust in news is in decline is misleading and overly shaped by the U.S. experience.
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September 25, 2025
Times of darkness

Our current environment of misinformation, mistrust, the spread of illiberal politics through influencer-style authoritarians, and the erosion of democratic norms, is “less an era of change than a change of era,” writes Fernando Belzunce. We…
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September 25, 2025
Global lessons from a press in peril

Martin Baron posits that democracy cannot exist without a free press – and a free press cannot exist without democracy. Every year of my journalistic career of nearly half a century, I have known only…
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September 24, 2025
Shutting down the internet shuts down your Right To Know

Winnie Kamau calls out the alarming global trend of governments shutting down the internet in times of political crisis, with 294 such shutdowns in 54 countries in 2024 – including 15 in Africa. On 28…
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September 24, 2025
You deserve the truth, not AI’s interpretation of it

To understand the world around us we need reliable and rigorous reporting, with AI as a tool that amplifies such journalism rather than exploits and distorts it, writes Liz Corbin and Vincent Peyrègne. We all…
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September 24, 2025
Regenerating the base layer of democracy: local news

Jonathan Heawood argues that local news is the foundation of a healthy democracy, yet it has been weakened by political hostility, collapsing business models, and the rise of social media.
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September 23, 2025
Expert opinion by the high-level panel on public interest media

Eleven of the world’s leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, urge governments to recognise and uphold the economic value of public interest media in the age of AI.
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September 23, 2025