As Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies, the Independent Journalists’ Union is working to protect journalists, document attacks and push for accountability. In this interview, the Union’s president Elsy Moufarrej speaks with IMS executive director Jesper Højberg about her organisation’s efforts to support its members in a time of extreme peril for journalists and other media workers in Lebanon.
A personal journey – from journalism to the tech sector – helped shape innovations and tailored information integrity solutions for local outlets in Portugal.
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.
IMS is launching a new model for the international co-production of fiction and documentary film
Co-production makes films possible across borders. It brings together financing, creative collaboration, editorial exchange and access to new audiences. But when rights and revenue are allowed to follow expenditure alone, unequal production conditions can turn cooperation into imbalance.
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.
Insights from a knowledge exchange on audience engagement strategies for public interest media in Europe. The text is available for download in six different languages.
