Open-source intelligence is turning sports journalism into a verification-heavy beat, where reporters must check fan videos, social posts, flight data, maps, prices and hashtags rather than simply cover matches. Sports events such as the 2026 World Cup will demand a wider journalistic eye: one that tracks fans, cities, transport, money, misinformation and organised digital campaigns without mistaking online noise for fact.

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.