How 2025 shaped journalism: Insights from the Reuters Institute’s work From AI and OSINT to news creators, our researchers and reporters have explored the future of journalism this year. Here’s what they found.
How 2025 shaped journalism: Insights from the Reuters Institute’s work From AI and OSINT to news creators, our researchers and reporters have explored the future of journalism this year. Here’s what they found.
AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, experts must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows.
AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt As generative AI makes fabrication easier and detection harder, experts must evolve its methods, invest in contextual expertise, and adopt transparent workflows.
Anyone can be a digital detective now: The rise of citizen-led online investigations in Kenya Tech-savvy citizens are participating in crowdsourced online investigations fuelled by frustration and a lack of accountability.
Anyone can be a digital detective now: The rise of citizen-led online investigations in Kenya Tech-savvy citizens are participating in crowdsourced online investigations fuelled by frustration and a lack of accountability.
OSINT, aid flights and trusted contacts: how journalists are covering Gaza’s story from afar “As long as I can share the voices of the people in Gaza, I will—whether I am with them or abroad,” said Palestinian journalist Nagham Mohanna.
OSINT, aid flights and trusted contacts: how journalists are covering Gaza’s story from afar “As long as I can share the voices of the people in Gaza, I will—whether I am with them or abroad,” said Palestinian journalist Nagham Mohanna.
How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills “If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills “If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify,” argue Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins and Dr Natalie Martin in this piece.
The Israel-Hamas war highlights the power (and the limits) of open-source reporting “This war has emphasised the need for newsrooms to build out this type of skill set,” says Nadine Ajaka of the ‘Washington Post’.
The Israel-Hamas war highlights the power (and the limits) of open-source reporting “This war has emphasised the need for newsrooms to build out this type of skill set,” says Nadine Ajaka of the ‘Washington Post’.
