The 1979 Revolution transformed how the Western world views and reports on Islam. What started as a confused attempt to understand a new religious movement has turned into a permanent media habit of framing Iran through the lens of conflict and suspicion.

India’s proposed AI copyright framework risks turning independent journalism into a pooled data resource, undermining the subscription-based models that sustain it. At a moment of political and economic fragility, the struggle over AI licensing is ultimately a struggle over who controls, values, and profits from journalistic work.

Independent journalism no longer exists as a functioning practice inside Chechnya. What remains is a profession rebuilt in exile, forced to operate at a distance from the very place it is meant to cover.

In Gaza, journalism becomes inseparable from the life it documents: reporting continues not from a distance, but from within the same fear, grief, and instability it tries to record.

Normalising inconsistent, messy, or incomplete data is tedious and time-consuming, but essential. AI can handle grunt work, but editorial decisions remain with the journalist.

Despite the promise of digital technologies to amplify voices and expand media reach in the Global South, structural barriers, such as political repression, technological dependency, and persistent digital divides, continue to limit their impact. Real progress requires not only technological adoption but also institutional reform, stronger journalistic capacity, and independent ethical frameworks to challenge dominant Western media narratives.