RNW Media is an international media development organisation based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, dedicated to harnessing the power of independent digital media to uphold human rights and advance the public good.
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The Digital Media Impact Summit (DMIS) 2024, held in October, brought together 88 participants from 34 countries in a global gathering that showcased how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping independent and public-interest media.
Aligned with the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, RNW Media proudly unveils 'It Is Real Violence,' an innovative online platform designed to tackle the critical issue of TFGBV.
Rethink targeting to massively boost your social impact, grow your audience and help reverse polarization. Social targeting is a big reason why we’re going so far backwards on all the good stuff. Here’s how your organisation can help turn things back in a happier direction by bringing more people with you.
Digital media impact is about experimenting to discover how your content connects with the people you need to move. How to run content strategy experiments to grow engagement? Move as many people as possible with your digital content.
Learn how independent media creators can grow audience loyalty to create impact and generate sustainable revenue. This is how media drives profit & social change, and data led strategy is the answer to independent media viability (& social impact). Be real & work for people.
Create content that connects with the people you need to reach, and widen your impact to drive lasting social change. Make campaigns work with user first strategy. If your campaigns aren’t landing, it’s because there’s a mismatch between the content and the audience.
Traction for online misogyny is growing fast, and no one embodies that better than Andrew Tate. Using influencers to outperform the traction of harmful ideas with vulnerable audiences.
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Our Solutions
Our free Digital Transformation Assessment is designed to help you understand where your organisation stands today—and where it can go tomorrow.
Launched during the 2025 Digital Media Impact Summit (DMIS), this initiative brings together a comprehensive and collaborative framework—our 360-degree approach—to protect information integrity, empower independent journalism, and strengthen civic resilience.
As part of our International Women’s Day campaign, we launched the digital coffee table book, Under Attack, Still We Rise! – a tribute to women media makers who, despite facing relentless online violence, continue to speak out, shape narratives and defend press freedom worldwide.
AlgoSpeak is coded language used to avoid being flagged or blocked by algorithms on social media, search engines, and other digital platforms. Co-created with partners, our website documents these creative workarounds.