Events for December 2025

How do women newsroom leaders hold the line when both press freedom and democratic norms are under attack?

Across continents—from Russia to Iran, from Hungary to Venezuela—journalists have learned to read the early signals of autocracy: the slow normalization of censorship, the weaponization of “national security,” and the gradual erosion of the importance of facts. This conversation will explore the panelists’ experiences as journalists and Kronika, a platform born from the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA), as a tool to protect public memory.