Priority Issue List
Priority Issue List
Algorithmic Accountability
Find our issue primers and related work on enhancing algorithmic transparency, algorithms and quality news, and evolving technology and media.
- Enhancing Algorithmic Transparency: How can public policy enhance algorithmic transparency and accountability while protecting against political or commercial manipulation?
- Algorithms & Quality News: How can we ensure that algorithms identify and promote fact-based, independent journalism?
- Evolving Technology & Media: How will evolving technology and media formats change societal expectations for and relationships with news?
Economic Support for News
Find our issue primers and related work on building news sustainability and modernizing copyright law.
- Building News Economic Sustainability: How can public policy addressing economic support for news enable independent, competitive journalism without creating political or legacy bias?
- Modernizing Copyright Law: How can copyright law be modernized in a way that benefits independent, competitive journalism and an open internet?
Information & Cybersecurity
Find our issue primers and related work on journalists and cybersecurity threats, artificial intelligence in journalism, and synthetic media and deepfakes.
- Journalists & Cyber Threats: How can we better ensure the digital security of the press and protect against cyber threats?
- Artificial Intelligence in Journalism: How do we enable the benefits and manage the harms of artificial intelligence in journalism?
- Synthetic Media & Deepfakes: How do we protect societies from synthetic media and “deepfakes”?
News Engagement & Innovation
Find our issue primers and related work on building news relevance and enhancing news diversity.
- Building News Relevance: How can the news media remain relevant, particularly with young audiences and underserved communities?
- Enhancing News Diversity: How can public policy enhance an open, innovative environment for a diverse press?
Online Harms & Disinformation
Find our issue primers and related work on addressing journalists and online abuse, disinformation and “awful but lawful” content.
- Journalists & Online Abuse: How can we better protect the press from online harassment and abuse?
- Addressing Disinformation: How can we ensure that mechanisms to stem disinformation aren’t used to restrict press independence or free speech?
- Addressing “Awful but Lawful” Content: How do we address online content that is “awful but lawful”?
Open Distribution & Access
Find our issue primers and related work on protecting an open internet and sustainable models for the open distribution of news.
- Protecting an Open Internet: How can we discourage the development of ‘splinternets’ and encourage the protection of an open internet?
- Open Distribution of News: What are sustainable models for open distribution and consumption of news and information?
Recent Articles
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World Press Freedom Day 2025: About Half of Surveyed Journalists Report Their Government Seeks Too Much Control Over Their Journalism
Three quarters of surveyed journalists do not think it is OK for their government to define journalism, regardless of perspective on government interference
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Qué quiere el público del periodismo en la era de la IA: una encuesta en cuatro países
Tres cuartos o más de los encuestados valoran el papel del periodismo; más del 56 % dice que “la gente común” puede producir periodismo
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Qué significa hacer periodismo en la era de la IA: Opiniones de los periodistas sobre la seguridad, la tecnología y el Gobierno
El 50 % informa haber sufrido una extralimitación del Gobierno en el último año

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