“You can’t approach it as you would approach a political election. The patterns are just different,” says Corriere della Sera’s Gian Guido Vecchi.

In this special World Press Freedom Day episode of Fellowship Takeaways two exiled journalists speak on covering Russia and Syria from afar.

A panel moderated by our Director, Mitali Mukherjee, discussed tech disruption, a lack of diversity and the uncertain future of young journalists.

With RFE/RL under threat from the US administration, their journalists explain how they manage to do their job from exile and why they think it matters.

They will engage with our global community while working on key issues: developing new business models and ending impunity for journalists’ deaths.

These journalists from Australia, Denmark, Israel and South Africa bring a wealth of experience to our programme, which they are joining for the next few months

From practical applications of AI to an experiment with AI agents for article writing, here are some takeaways from the discussions this week in Copenhagen.

“My goal is to make people more aware of coordinated attempts to shape their perception of an issue,” says journalist Cristina Chi.