Why AI transparency matters for media freedom…
Sam Moseti: “At Africa Media Festival 2026, I gave an ‘Ignite talk’ arguing that AI transparency matters for media freedom. I built my case with 5 accretive points contributing to the through line that AI opacity limits the capacity of media to interrogate AI power & systems, and increases vulnerability to delegitimisation.”
RNW Media’s Digital Transformation Assessment (DTA) is now available in English, French, and Arabic!
Civil society organisations can now assess digital readiness, benchmark performance, and get practical next steps to strengthen their work in a fast-changing digital landscape.
Make Facts Great Again!
TL:DR Notes on Creating a World where Facts Are Taken Seriously and Power the Dismantling of the Broligarchy.
To fix information vacuums, we first need to address structural online misogyny
“It can just take one concerted attack for a woman to go silent”, said Professor Julie Posetti at the Copenhagen Conference on Information Integrity.
The Case for Action: Gender Equality in Media Cannot Wait
In the spirit of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month throughout March, we are taking a moment to name what a media landscape that works for everyone must actually look like, and what it will take to build it.
Media that ceases to examine power strangles democracy every day, be it day or night.
Why a remark from American journalist Chris Hedges offered a perfect (yet grim) lens for me to understand what’s going on in our world today.
Voices in Exile: How Zan Times is Redefining Afghan Journalism
In this Digital Media Shakers edition, we speak with Zahra Nader, an Afghan-Canadian journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of Zan Times. Launched in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power, Zan Times is a women-led investigative newsroom that documents the human rights crisis in Afghanistan.
The 2026 News Cycle vs. Our Sanity: Memes Edition!
At RNW Media, our mission is to ensure people have access to safe, reliable, and inclusive information. But let’s be real: even for the professionals, the 2026 news cycle can feel like a fever dream.
Defending the Digital Public Square Against AI-Generated Abuse
As an international media development organisation dedicated to strengthening independent and public-interest media and committed to building safe, inclusive and trustworthy online spaces, we are deeply concerned by the misuse of artificial intelligence to create and circulate explicit imagery. As reflected in recent reports about AI-generated deepfake images shared online of a Dutch woman member of […]