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Last year, governments all over the world assassinated, assaulted, kidnapped, threatened, and harassed critics beyond their borders. Freedom House recorded 126 new incidents of physical, direct transnational repression during the year, bringing the total number of cases in our database, which spans 2014 to 2025, to 1,375.
This article explains how international journalism festivals have become important spaces for exiled journalists to connect, collaborate, and continue their work despite repression in their home countries. It argues that exile journalism is growing due to increasing threats to press freedom, while also creating new opportunities for global reach and cross-border reporting.
What does it take to address the funding needs of public interest media with locally anchored solutions? Public interest media remains an essential pillar of democratic societies. Ensuring its future will require funding systems that are more diverse, more resilient, and more locally rooted than before. This report provides valuable insights into what it takes to begin building those systems.
Media makers forced into exile share candid insights on continuing independent work from abroad in this ASC MediaRisk panel discussion. Contributors reflect on safety challenges, digital threats, audience engagement and sustaining journalistic identity while displaced. Their perspectives highlight resilience and the complex realities of reporting beyond borders.
Reporters Without Borders investigates how the Chinese state’s global media strategy aims to extend control over international information and narratives, from expanding state broadcasters abroad to influencing foreign media and exporting censorship models. The report warns this push could threaten independent journalism and press freedom worldwide.
Salvadoran journalist Carlos Dada — co‑founder and editor‑in‑chief of El Faro, now operating in exile due to repression in El Salvador — delivered the 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture on “Journalism as Resistance.” He reflects on how independent reporting becomes an act of defiance under dictatorship, the challenges exiled newsrooms face, and the vital role of courageous journalism worldwide.
The Cuban government has blocked independent news outlet El Toque, further shrinking information space for citizens already cut off from uncensored reporting. The move highlights ongoing efforts by authorities to suppress critical journalism, deepen digital censorship, and limit access to diverse sources – complicating efforts by exiled and independent Cuban journalists to reach audiences.
In Costa Rica’s capital San José, a hidden TV station called Nicaragua Actual is broadcasting news aimed at audiences inside Nicaragua, where independent reporting is widely suppressed. Operating discreetly from exile, its team produces and distributes content to counter state censorship and provide alternative information to people facing media repression at home.
This Reuters Institute report shows how Cuban journalists based abroad continue covering their homeland despite strict censorship and information blackouts. Through remote sourcing, social media, clandestine networks and verification techniques, exiled reporters work to pierce state control and deliver news to audiences inside and outside Cuba, revealing both innovation and the obstacles they face.
Earlier this month Donald Trump launched military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The ousting of Maduro was a momentous event for millions of Venezuelans, who have gone through hunger, political repression, a painful economic collapse and a massive exodus in the past two decades.
Luz Mely Reyes, a Venezuelan journalist in exile and director of the digital media outlet Efecto Cocuyo, quickly learned what was happening. She contacted a group of colleagues, also in exile, via text message, and within minutes they organized a live broadcast to inform their compatriots about what was going on in Venezuela.
When technology can manufacture any reality, the journalist becomes both witness and suspect. How can the media rebuild trust when truth itself feels optional? A conversation among editors, reporters, and thinkers on courage, verification, and storytelling in a time of noise.
In 2026, exiled media outlets will overhaul their business models, leaving behind grant dependency and moving toward diversified schemes that include products and services that their audiences — especially readers in the diaspora — are willing to pay for.
The Network of Exiled Media Outlets (NEMO) is proud to join in celebrating the 20th anniversary of Zamaneh Media and its flagship independent journalism platform, Radio Zamaneh, which serves audiences in Iran and diaspora communities worldwide. On December 16, Zamaneh’s team will commemorate this milestone with a donation campaign, and by sharing highlights of their work on their website.
The article describes how UNESCO is training journalists from Myanmar to improve disability-inclusive reporting, combat stigma, and ensure more accurate and accessible media coverage. It highlights how local and ethnic media, guided by persons with disabilities, can drive meaningful change by shifting narratives, newsroom practices, and representation.
Iran’s government is intensifying its media restrictions. This effort is backfiring dramatically. Exiled opposition channels are now setting the domestic news agenda. According to The Economist, state minders severely limit foreign journalists’ access.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is releasing a new report “Ending the Silence on Online Harassment of Journalists”. Authored by journalist and tech policy advisor Elodie Vialle, the report provides an overview of the widespread phenomenon that is online harassment targeting journalists, whose normalisation makes it harder to address.
When war broke out in Sudan in April 2023, Basma Shams witnessed independent journalism collapse under the weight of violence and repression. Maurice Oniang’o spoke with Shams, fellow Ayin reporter Eiad Husham and the network’s managing editor, Tom Rhodes, to find out how grassroots journalism persists in one of the most dangerous countries for reporters.