Sam Moseti: “At Africa Media Festival 2026, I gave an ‘Ignite talk’ arguing that AI transparency matters for media freedom. I built my case with 5 accretive points contributing to the through line that AI opacity limits the capacity of media to interrogate AI power & systems, and increases vulnerability to delegitimisation.”

Civil society organisations can now assess digital readiness, benchmark performance, and get practical next steps to strengthen their work in a fast-changing digital landscape.

TL:DR Notes on Creating a World where Facts Are Taken Seriously and Power the Dismantling of the Broligarchy. 

“It can just take one concerted attack for a woman to go silent”, said Professor Julie Posetti at the Copenhagen Conference on Information Integrity.

Why a remark from American journalist Chris Hedges offered a perfect (yet grim) lens for me to understand what’s going on in our world today.

In this Digital Media Shakers edition, we speak with Zahra Nader, an Afghan-Canadian journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of Zan Times. Launched in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power, Zan Times is a women-led investigative newsroom that documents the human rights crisis in Afghanistan.

At RNW Media, our mission is to ensure people have access to safe, reliable, and inclusive information. But let’s be real: even for the professionals, the 2026 news cycle can feel like a fever dream.