IMS staff and partners share their expert insights on media development in different global contexts.
In 2011, Gohar Khodjayan first travelled to Kyiv to assess the state of Ukraine’s media market. Since then, she has seen Ukraine before Euromaidan, during the 2013–2014 protests, after the occupation of Crimea, on the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion and today, as Ukrainian media continue to work under conditions of prolonged war, financial pressure and constant information attacks.
IMS Executive Director Jesper Højberg introduced the IPI-IMS Press Freedom Hero and Free Media Pioneer awards at the 2026 Gabo Festival in Bogotá, Colombia. Below is his speech from the event.
Discussions at IPI's Innovation conference reflected a sector in transition: moving beyond debates about whether journalism can attract investment and toward more grounded questions of capital fit, institutional maturity, and ecosystem architecture.
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.
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.
IMS is launching a new model for the international co-production of fiction and documentary film
Contributing to Appeals Centre Europe’s work is one of the ways in which IMS seeks to raise awareness about the scale and patterns of harmful content circulating online, and the challenge of getting platforms to act.
Through the New Democracy Fund, IMS supports five Ukrainian civil society organisations working on transparency, accountability and democratic oversight during war, recovery and Ukraine’s European path.
Belarusian independent media-in-exile face a unique financial crisis that goes far beyond typical nonprofit sustainability challenges. Could a mapping of untapped resources in the business diaspora be a first step forward?
