Journalism under siege, but Perugia delivered anyway: the Reuters Institute rounds up the International Journalism Festival, from AI editorial responsibility to a Romanian poverty podcast, a WhatsApp newsroom serving 100,000 people across the US-Mexico border, and whether news creators and traditional journalists can stop being weird about each other.
- Reuters Institute highlights from IJF 2026 in Perugia cover AI editorial responsibility, audience engagement, and the creator-journalist divide.
- A Romanian podcast on financial precarity, a WhatsApp newsroom reaching 100,000 people across the Arizona-Sonora border, and a NYT editor describing AI tools as "more like riding an elephant" were among the standout moments.
- The festival's tone was cautious but not despairing, with journalists from conflict zones and fact-checkers pushing back against the broader sense of disruption.
