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Displaced journalists must adapt to new culture, language, climate, and even a different color of the sky, says Luz Mely Reyes of Venezuela

“You have to go” is the phrase that defines the exile of Venezuelan journalists and the title of the most recent investigation by Luz Mely Reyes, co-founder of digital media outlet Efecto Cocuyo. Her new study reveals how censorship and persecution have forced many to leave their country and reinvent themselves abroad.

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‘He was a visionary’: Journalism scholars reflect on legacy of Max McCombs at ISOJ research breakfast

The late Max McCombs, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. pioneered the internationally-recognized theory on the agenda-setting role of media.

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Google artificial intelligence tools NotebookLM, Pinpoint offer creative techniques to increase efficiency in the newsroom

These two tools work like research assistants to help journalists search through documents and come away with summaries, and also aid in analyzing data more easily.

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Second Trump administration weaponizes chaos and overwhelms media, say journalists at ISOJ

Political journalists warn that Trump in his second term shows an unprecedented disregard for democratic norms. With no internal dissent, his loyal allies enable his efforts to distort reality and sideline critical media.

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International panelists at ISOJ warn of censorship, lawsuits and other patterns in the erosion of democracies

Journalists from El Salvador, India, Hungary and Turkey share how autocratic regimes in their countries have weakened freedom of expression and offer U.S. journalists a glimpse of what may come.

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LA Times editor discusses layoffs, financial strain, and journalistic independence at ISOJ

At the 26th International Symposium on Online Journalism, Los Angeles Times Editor Terry Tang addressed the newspaper’s latest wave of layoffs and financial struggles while defending the newsroom’s editorial independence and the vital role of local journalism in times of crisis.

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