This week, Bangladesh is heading into its first election since student protests led to the overthrow of the government in 2024. To make it easier for journalists to tell global stories, we’ve published over 100 free-to-use clips from Dhaka. Check it out: www.openjournalism.network/packages/ban...

In December 2025, a thick haze covered the Delhi National Capital Region. There was no visibility throughout the cities in the region. AQI monitors showed that particulate matter such as PM 2.5 was at hazardous levels — some of the worst pollution on record www.openjournalism.network/packages/vis...

Footage from the No Kings protest in San Francisco now available for free, with attribution! Head to openjournalism.network to download it.

Come say hi! We’re at #ijf25 in Perugia. Excited to dig into charcuterie boards and deep journalism conversations! We can’t wait to meet old colleagues and make new friends. IJF fills us up with inspiration to carry through these challenging times. Let the coffees and aperitivos flow!

Our free footage library is growing! Watch this behind the scenes video from our latest contributors gathering footage of a solar-powered borehole in Kenya

Footage of how a solar borehole in Kenya now live on our free-to-use footage library: www.flickr.com/photos/inold... Package shot by Juliah Wairimu and Hillary Macharia

We have a library of election-related footage available to use for free, with attribution (CC-By). Use it if you’re covering the inauguration! www.flickr.com/photos/inold...

Our co-founders @sanshey.inold.news and @manon.inold.news just wrapped a training on AI in Journalism in Nairobi. Over the course of the training, journalists tried out more than 10 tools. They explored how these tools can be used in written, audio, video and data formats.

The News Creator Award from @icfjorg.bsky.social is such a wonderful way to celebrate the incredible work independent journalists are doing to fill the widening gaps left by shrinking newsrooms. Winners will get to attend the @jpurnalismfestival.com Details here: www.icfj.org/news/recogni...

77% of US news influencers have no news backgrounds. In this piece, Shuchita Jha explores what the news industry could learn from this. inoldnews.com/in-2025-wher...

Scientist, journalist and editor @klburke.bsky.social joins @healthjournalism.org as new environmental health beat leader 👏 sciencewriting.substack.com/p/science-wr... #sciencewriters #sciencewriting #bluesci 🧪 #scinews #scicomm

“American journalism was always a work in progress…” says Michel Martin in a closing speech at the @rsf-inter.bsky.social Press Freedom Awards, talking about the threats journalism faces in 2024. “We can figure out how to elevate and support each other.”

“When the world is against us, we support each other,” says Anya Schiffrin, director of Technology, Media, & Communications specialisation at Columbia University, presenting the Courage Prize at the @rsf-inter.bsky.social Press Freedom Awards to @aljazeera.com journalist Waël al-Dahdouh.

Accepting the award for independent journalism from @rsf-inter.bsky.social, Ravish Kumar’s speech, read by his colleague Vrinda Sharma, was dedicated to the recognition of journalists around the world who embody the idea of independence

“Free press, to us, is more than being safe,” says Thibaut Bruttin, director of @rsf-inter.bsky.social “We need to restore the prestige of journalism.”

The @rsf-inter.bsky.social Press Freedom Awards 2024 are tonight in Washington, D.C. celebrating the work of journalists across the globe.