Overview

• EBU and WAN-IFRA urge AI developers to stop training on journalistic content without permission, commit to fair compensation, ensure transparent sourcing, protect pluralism, and engage with newsrooms as partners.
• A BBC investigation this year found roughly half of AI-generated answers to news questions omitted key details or contained significant errors.
• AFP reports 25 serious incidents affecting its journalists in the first half of 2025, already surpassing the total recorded in 2024.
• CPJ says nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza over the past two years and has documented more than 20 alleged targeted attacks.
• Watchdogs cite coordinated hostility and censorship from the Sahel to Central America, including 179 attacks in Argentina in 2024, while opinion campaigns urge the public to subscribe to and share trustworthy reporting to sustain local watchdogs.