Overview

• Local and national outlets across the Reach network published coordinated editorials on September 28 under the call to action, "Choose Truth. Choose Facts. Choose Journalism."
• The editorials cite 2025 global tolls on press freedom, reporting 48 journalists killed, more than 70 missing and over 350 jailed.
• Reach reports online threats or attempts to intimidate its journalists have more than doubled year on year.
• Editors flag structural pressures on trusted reporting, including government cuts to journalism courses and the distorting effects of social media and big tech on public information.
• Titles highlight accountability reporting with concrete results, from Belfast Live’s investigations and BirminghamLive’s probes to the Liverpool Echo’s Hillsborough Law coverage and Express campaigns such as assisted dying reform.