2025: No ordinary year
Unprecedented threats tested freedom of expression and information rights everywhere: funding cuts, restrictive legislation, toxic online environments, escalating conflicts. Yet the IFEX network answered with collective power. From winning legal battles to protect independent media, shielding leaders under siege, and forging connections that turned crisis into opportunities. Discover how the diversity and reach of the network advanced the work in ways only collective action can.
Advancing press freedom together
Across the globe, IFEX members are doing the vital work of defending journalists, equipping them with the tools and skills they need, and confronting the forces that silence them. IFEX exists to support that work: connecting organizations across borders, sharing knowledge, opening doors to advocacy spaces, and channelling resources to where they are needed most.
IFEX Collaboration Project
By developing action-oriented tools and frameworks, IFEX is helping civil society organisations strengthen collaboration, challenge power imbalances, and build the foundations for more just and inclusive collective work.
Meeting the AI moment
Artificial intelligence is disrupting journalism, boosting efficiency and data analysis while also exacerbating threats and disinformation. The IFEX network is ready for the challenge.
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Concerns over Czech government’s plan to abolish the licence fee and replace it with state budget funding for public service media
The proposal could reduce the funding for public media and undermine independent public service media.
Death threats issued against journalist and his family, forcing him into exile
Ibrahima Sory Barry had assisted Canadian journalist Isabelle Hachey with an investigation into the 2007 death of the former wife of Guinea’s opposition politician, Rafiou Sow.
Trump administration issues subpoenas targeting several “New York Times” reporters
The subpoenas were issued by a U.S. attorney in Manhattan after “The New York Times” reported on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.
SFLC.in statement on the government’s notice to WhatsApp to halt rollout of username feature
SFLCin urged authorities to withdraw the notice that subjects software features to prior governmental approval.
Future newsrooms study 2026
The report offers a snapshot into how innovative global newsrooms are evolving within a fractured publishing environment.
More than a dozen journalists targeted for reporting on anti-migrant sentiment
CPJ and seven other press freedom groups have called on the M&M anti-migrant movement to end unlawful action, stop threatening journalists, and reject conduct that could expose journalists to intimidation or violence.