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.
The EU doesn’t need its own Facebook or wild west development - it needs the digital equivalent of public parks, libraries, and townhall meetings. And some of the best blueprints already exist outside Europe.
IMS and IPI are proud to announce the 11 organisations shortlisted for the 2026 IMS-IPI Free Media Pioneer Award in recognition of their creative and innovative work to sustain independent journalism amid an increasingly hostile global environment for press freedom.
On 6 June, Ukraine marks Journalists’ Day. Reconstituted after 1991 as a system of independent media, Ukrainian journalism has, over the past 35 years, travelled from post-Soviet transformation to a digital and wartime reality.
