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News #JournalismMatters: Journalism is society's safety net The creator of World News Day, an initiative to recognise journalists' role in upholding democracy, encourages threatened journalists to keep fighting for the truth and facts By David Walmsley • 3 min read
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Credit: screenshot via The New Humanitarian's Yemen Listening Project News Audiences, sources and strategies: Inside The New Humanitarian's Yemen Listening Project The non-profit newsroom garnered 100 detailed, personal accounts of how the civil war in Yemen is affecting day-to-day life for citizens and the diaspora By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: Photo by Julia Koblitz on Unsplash News What mainstream media can learn from niche news sites Appealing to small and specific audience groups can have a big impact - if you know what you are doing By Isabel Meszaros • 2 min read
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News Solutions journalism superstars: freelance journalist and researcher Nieves Zúñiga How do you sustain solutions stories when the training and funding of a grant programme run out? We asked SJN Lede Fellows for their best advice By Jacob Granger • 5 min read
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Credit: The Presidential Office of Ukraine (Creative Commons licence) via Wikimedia News 100 days of war: What has international media learned from covering Ukraine? Reporting on Russia's invasion has put media standards under the microscope. Experts from across Europe mull over what the media has got right and wrong, and how practices must change moving forward By Catherine Edwards • 5 min read
