The latest updates on IMS, our partners and global events concerning press freedom.
IMS strongly condemns Israel’s targeted assassination of five media workers from Al Jazeera in Gaza. Israel must allow media workers to report freely and without fear of direct targeting because of their work.
Without immediate intervention by the international community, the lives of Gaza's journalists are under serious threat, and they may not be able to continue reporting; their voices may fall silent.
As part of the MERIT Forum initiative, Ukrainian media professionals visited Brussels in June 2025 to share their expertise in information warfare, digital threats, and crisis reporting.
IMS (International Media Support), under the REACH: Media partnerships for accountability and trust, invites Ukrainian public interest media outlets, whose foremost objective is to serve the community, safeguard the public interest and promote Ukraine’s European integration, to apply for media grants.
More than 100 organizations are sounding the alarm to allow in life-saving aid.
EAVE, CPH:DOX and IMS are calling for eight teams with documentary projects in development from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Since March, independent Lebanese media outlets Daraj and Megaphone have been subjected to a smear campaign involving leading Lebanese media outlets, coordinated online attacks and defamations as well as several legal complaints.
Representatives from IMS and our partner organisations participated in the Internet Governance Forum's 2025 edition in Norway, drawing attention to urgent issues in the digital media space.
Within just a few days of its launch, more than 400 people had applied for a course on how to use artificial intelligence to verify information and detect manipulation — twice the programme’s capacity. Demand for AI awareness as a convenient factchecking tool likely reflects a broader rise in media literacy and critical thinking in Ukraine. Evaluating facts has become a daily routine for many since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
