Dear reader, citizen, fellow human,
2024 AD is testing our modern societies in ways we once hoped would never be repeated.
Autocratic regimes and aspiring dictators around the world have thrown a gauntlet to freedoms across borders, races, and religions. Modern conflicts span the entire globe and are fought in an information expanse that is overwhelming in its reach and power. New technologies, and the platforms they enable, are battlefields on which our future is being decided – often without our permission and against our will.
In this maelstrom, it is journalism – fact-based, evidence-based credible news media – that has a lifelong duty to defend the self-evident values our civilization was built on. Worldwide, it is the journalists who live their responsibility to honour this sacred bond with our audiences and our communities.