Fribourg (Switzerland) 2025 The Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, at the 39th Festival international du Film de Fribourg (21-30 March 2025) awarded its Prize of 5’000 CHF, donated by the Church Aid Organisations in Switzerland “Lenten Offering” and “HEKS/EPER/bread for all”, to the film...
Thousands of volunteers gathered evidence of representation and portrayal of women and men in the news in some 95 countries on 6 May during the 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP).Held 30 years after the inaugural GMMP, the 2025 edition of monitoring was the seventh...
When I started to think about World Press Freedom Day (3 May) this year, my mind – and fingers on the keyboard – went first to the existential crisis facing the traditional media industry, battered as it is from so many economic, political, technological, and...
Indigenous activists in eight Latin American countries can better defend their lands by using more professional and secure methods to collect data and evidence, thanks to a project by WACC partner PAKKIRU, the Kichwa Nation in the Pastaza region of Ecuador.The School of Communication and...
WACC members, friends, and partners have a unique chance to promote communication rights in practice on a global stage by voting for network entries nominated for the WSIS Prizes 2025.The contest, run by the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), recognizes activities that leverage...
Water and digital technologies – we can’t live without them. But while people in many parts of the world are running short of water, digital technologies are consuming more and more. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google operate data centres that take vast amounts of water from some...