Mission statement
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Impact4news is not about political news but about advancing the politics of news.
The digital revolution has granted a voice and access to information to millions of people around the world who were previously isolated and ignored by mass media. It has unleashed new ways to report and distribute news content that have positively transformed our relationship with information. And we are just at the beginning of this extraordinary new era of media! Digital technologies have however simultaneously disrupted the traditional business model of journalism. The economic sustainability of quality journalism and the capacity for citizens around the Globe to equally access useful, trustworthy news content are, today, gravely undermined. The way governments and policy makers will reinvent copyright and intellectual property, content regulation, data governance or digital literacy in the next coming months will decisively shape up the future of the news ecosystem. As key stakeholders of this ecosystem, news publishers, independent journalists and news content producers must build up their capacity to proactively formulate smart policies and develop creative solutions that will address these challenges. Impact4news pursues 3 main objectives:
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