VATICAN — Pope Leo XIV defended the importance of rigorous journalism against “the drug of fake news” and “artificial polarizations” in a message to the Italian newspaper L’Adige on the occasion of its 80th anniversary, celebrated Tuesday.
Trust in news in the Philippines plummeted by 10 points in 2026, the steepest decline among all 48 markets covered by this year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
A collaborative investigation by journalists from Southeast Asia has uncovered a coordinated campaign that weaponized transparency to dismantle the world’s primary foreign aid apparatus and vilify media outlets that received funding, labeling them as propaganda machines.
A new IFCN report finds fact-checking organizations cut staff and relied more heavily on grants as financial pressure mounted
IFCN rejects the attempt to portray fact-checking as a security threat and warns of rising global repression
THE VARSITARIAN, the 97-year-old official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, will hold the 27th Inkblots, its annual fellowship for campus journalists and journalism practitioners, on Jan. 13 and 14, 2026.
