IMS combines rapid response with long-term efforts to create a foundation of trust and collaboration on the ground. We work together with our partners to find local solutions to global problems – and global solutions to local problems.
With partners in more than 30 countries, IMS works where independent media is at the greatest risk: in countries experiencing armed conflict, humanitarian crises, rapid political change or authoritarian rule.
Support for journalists and media development comes in many forms. Learn more about how you can engage with IMS’ work and support us and our partners.
As business models fail, the world faces uncertainties on many fronts, donor funding tightens and digital disruption accelerates, media leaders, financiers, and policymakers gathered in Harare to dialogue on the future of independent journalism.
At a time of shrinking funding, platform disruption, and rising disinformation, Europe needs stronger local and plural media ecosystems—and new ways to sustain them.
In April 2026, the MERIT Forum brought together Ukrainian and Armenian media experts in Brussels for a dialogue with EU institutions and an exchange of expertise on the development of regional media systems amid global challenges. Discussions focused on the realities and specific characteristics of the media environments in the participating countries, the opportunities and capacity to apply European Union approaches in Ukraine and Armenia, as well as lessons and experiences from these countries that are relevant for the EU itself.
