“It is designed to intimidate, to make you timid.”
Today is Anti-SLAPP Day of Action.
At the inaugural Truth Tellers, Patrick Radden Keefe spoke about the legal threats he faced while reporting on the Sackler family and their central role in the opioid epidemic.
Watch in full: tinyurl.com/y68upbd6
“We haven’t given up.”
At Truth Tellers 2025, the founder of Afghanistan’s largest media empire, Saad Mohseni, spoke about the realities of reporting the news under the Taliban’s rule.
Watch the full conversation: tinyurl.com/j65f8c5t
This week, @pressgazette.co.uk reported on the growth of The Wall Street Journal’s digital subscriptions under editor Emma Tucker - up 30% since the start of 2023. At Truth Tellers 2024, Tucker pointed to a simple focus: the relationship with your readers, and doing what is truly irreplaceable.
“Trump sees the world as a jungle. You’re either a predator or you’re prey.”
@financialtimes.com US National Editor Edward Luce on why we need to be braver in our response to Donald Trump, not just as journalists, but across the board. #sirharrysummit
Does the media give too much attention to Donald Trump?
That was the question put to a panel of media leaders at Truth Tellers 2025.
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni pushed back:
“I do not think we are doing too much on Trump. He is remaking the world order.” tinyurl.com/4fsae7hh
We asked summit co-host @tinabrownlm.bsky.social what issues her late husband Sir Harry Evans would be keen to tackle at Truth Tellers:
“He would have a lot to say about the media owners caving into Trump.”
Tune in to Truth Tellers 2026 on 6 May at sirharrysummit.org
Across the world, journalists report under extraordinary pressure, facing censorship, shrinking resources, and often working in exile.
Truth Tellers brings together those determined to get the story out. Join the livestream on 6 May, 9.30am GMT at sirharrysummit.org
We asked @theatlantic.com Editor-in-Chief @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social what advice he would give early career journalists, and his answer was simple: protect your brains. 🧠
On @amanpourpod.bsky.social The Ex Files today, @tinabrownlm.bsky.social warns that journalists are increasingly targeted for telling the truth, and that if the Iran war falters, Trump may escalate attacks on the media to “change the reality field.”
Listen: tinyurl.com/msksmaaw
"The point of the Uncensored Library has always been to highlight the stories that are silenced by repressive states."
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How to thrive in this media age? Take a (digital) page from @theatlantic.com magazine, which has expanded its editorial staff to 200. Via @pressgazette.co.uk.
Its editor-in-chief @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social joined us on stage last year and talked about how to keep readers hooked (at link in bio).
“Instead of a life that would have been outwardly beautiful, he chose one of inward beauty. One that has landed him in a Hong Kong prison.” #freejimmylai
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“The weakness is the families.”
Following the killing of Cartel leader ‘El Mencho’, violence has surged across western Mexico. He was reportedly tracked through a romantic partner.
At Truth Tellers, Anabel Hernández told @alexcrawfordphoto.bsky.social about her work investigating cartel networks.
Today marks four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
At Truth Tellers 2023, photojournalist @lynseyaddario.bsky.social spoke about one of the things that set this war apart from the others she has covered.
Watch the full conversation: tinyurl.com/mhrrp656
We’re delighted to share that 2025 Sir Harry Evans Fellow in Investigative Journalism, Pete McKenzie, is joining @reuters.com as International Climate Correspondent, covering the political, economic and scientific implications of our changing climate. Bravo Pete! 👏👏👏
Huge congratulations to Truth Tellers 2025 speakers Abdi Latif Dahir & Justin Scheck on winning the George Polk Award together with Vivian Nereim for their @nytimes.com investigation exposed the trafficking and abuse of East African domestic workers in Saudi Arabia: tinyurl.com/ycxbakm5
Following the 20-yr sentence handed to Jimmy Lai under Hong Kong’s National Security Law, Mark Stephens warned Lai’s case should concern the international community. At #SirHarrySummit, he discussed authoritarian governments targeting media owners with @caoilfhionn.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/yc7fuv5m
A joint statement from the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands has concluded that Alexei Navalny was killed with epibatidine, a toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs. The five countries said “only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity.” tinyurl.com/mw9pvxpk
Guatemalan journalist and founder of El Periodico, José Rubén Zamora, has been returned to house arrest after a total of 1,295 days behind bars.
At Truth Tellers 2024, his son @jczamora.bsky.social shared his story on the Locking Up The Truth panel: tinyurl.com/yc7fuv5m
On BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show, @tinabrownlm.bsky.social spoke about the newly released Epstein files. She reflected on her role as editor at The Daily Beast in 2010, when reporting by Conchita Sarnoff exposed Epstein’s abuse.
🎧: tinyurl.com/4rjksdd4
Mark your calendar.
Truth Tellers 2026 takes place at Vision Hall, London on Wed 6 May. Co-hosted by @tinabrownlm.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @reuters.com, the summit convenes an invitation-only audience of 400 editors, reporters, broadcasters + media leaders. Livestreamed worldwide sirharrysummit.org
In a message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, Pope Leo XIV warned of AI’s impact on information ecosystems, and stressed journalism’s vital role in building public trust. A message that speaks directly to the mission of the Truth Tellers Summit.
Read in full: tinyurl.com/y4peejh6
"Rupert Murdoch is the media world’s great white shark, with a slight trail of blood at the corner of his thin mouth.” More on Gabriel Sherman’s book Bonfire of the Murdochs in @tinabrownlm.bsky.social's Fresh Hell on Substack.
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Today, that insight feels painfully current. According to the @pressfreedom.bsky.social 2025 prison census, 330 journalists were imprisoned worldwide as of December 1, 2025 - the fifth year in a row that more than 300 media workers have been jailed for their work: tinyurl.com/43cc7j35
“My heart is broken.”
Footage from Truth Tellers 2023, where Iranian journalist and campaigner @masihalinejad.bsky.social warned of gender apartheid, repression and the cost of silence. With reports that thousands have now been killed in the protests, her words feel painfully current.
"I feel guilty that I don't name the rest, the list of names goes on and on."
Masih Alinejad broke down in tears at the United Nations on Thursday, as she read out the names of people killed during protests in Iran.
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The words of Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad, urging the international community to support the anti-government protesters in Iran.
Masih shared that same rallying cry at Truth Tellers in 2023. Listen to the conversation on an @observeruk.bsky.social podcast episode: tinyurl.com/5bb6zhu6
At Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit, investigative journalist @christogrozev.bsky.social spoke about paywalls - and the resulting bubblisation of society in the US and Western Europe - as one of the greatest threats facing journalism, something he has already seen play out in Russia.
“There are journalists who have shifted to YouTube for independence.”
Indian YouTube sensation Dhruv Rathee has more than 30 million subscribers - more than Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Once a Modi supporter, Rathee is now one of his most outspoken critics: tinyurl.com/yc3tkk3r
