August update

Welcome to the Thomson Reuters Foundation's monthly newsletter!

Registrations are now live for Trust Conference 2025!

Secure your spot today - Trust Conference registrations are officially live!

What is Trust Conference?

Democracy thrives when journalists can report freely and truthfully, when institutions are transparent and accountable, and when the law is applied equally and fairly. 

Across the globe, these democratic pillars face unprecedented challenges.

Every year, Trust Conference convenes more than 700 media, civil society, business, and legal leaders to safeguard the future of free, fair and informed societies.

Over the 21 and 22 of October, attendees will have the chance to:

• dissect the critical issues that threaten democracy and undermine global progress.
• explore innovative solutions - including strategies to defend independent media and shape public interest AI.
• create cross-sector connections, exchanging ideas and expertise.

Featuring a powerful line-up of speakers, including: press freedom advocate Alsu Kurmasheva, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists Jodie Ginsberg, and CEO of AI Collaborative Martin Tisné. This year is one you won't want to miss.

Want to find out more? Our CEO, Antonio Zappulla, explains what this year's event is all about.

August highlights from across the Foundation

Strengthening Independent Media

In this exclusive interview, award-winning journalist and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Fellow Sannuta Raghu, details how rigorous editorial standards and audience-centred design are transforming AI from a potential threat into a powerful ally for independent journalism in India.

Enabling Access to the Law

In the latest episode of the Society for Law and Computers podcast, our Data Journalist Diana Baptisa explores how inadequate resource protection laws are enabling extraction, and the ways communities are mobilising against the arrival of AI-powered datacentres.

Promoting Responsible Business

Featured in Portfolio Adviser Future, Castlefield's Ita McMahon - one of the investor signatories to our new AI Company Data Initiative - highlights the emerging frameworks that are helping investors evaluate AI adoption across their portfolios.

Our statement in response to Reuters journalists killed and injured in Israeli strikes

Journalists play an essential role in delivering eyewitness reporting and shining a light on the reality of conflict. It is critically important that they are able to do so safely and freely. 
 
We were devastated to learn that cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a contractor for Reuters, was killed in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza. Moaz Abu Taha, a freelance journalist whose work had been occasionally published by Reuters, was also killed, and photographer Hatem Khaled, a Reuters contractor, was wounded.

We send our deep condolences and thoughts to Hussam’s and Moaz’s families and loved ones. Reuters has asked authorities in Gaza and Israel to help get urgent medical assistance for Hatem, and are seeking more information from Israeli authorities about these latest strikes.

This month we recommend

📖 Read

• White House Creates Loyalty Rating System For 553 U.S. Companies | Forbes
• Judge rejects Papaya attempt to gag Times of Malta | Times of Malta

🎧 Listen

• Are we witnessing the death of international law? | The Guardian
• The real cost of gutting USAID | Financial Times

📝 Apply

• Senior Business Development Manager, European Funding and Commercial Training | Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | Thomson Reuters Foundation

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