Mission and vision.
Our mission.
The Global Risk Journalism Hub (GRJH) is an international research network of 87 scholars, educators, practitioners, and policymakers in 52 countries to investigate journalism in the modern information ecology.
Institutions across the world are challenged when addressing how globalized ‘risks’, such as health pandemics, climate change, environmental crises and humanitarian conflicts, are communicated in today’s digital ecosystem. At the same time, users now need to navigate more risks in the information ecology, such as data, AI, and disinformation. As we face a world in which users and institutions are challenged by the dynamics of this global information ecology, where globalized risks are addressed in regional areas that feed into the global and vice versa, it is essential to examine current journalism practices and policies to lay the grounds for the development of new models of transnational communications.
Our aim is to inspire collaborative projects transcending national boundaries, opening up new spaces for dialogue and debate regarding how best to improve journalism’s role in the information ecology in the public interest within today’s dimensions of globalized risk and communication.
Our vision.
The Global Risk Journalism Hub (GRJH) includes 87 researchers from 52 countries of the Global North and Global South. Communication risks around the world are inherently embedded in the global information ecology, yet we require knowledge of how users and institutions across continents engage with digital spheres in times of crisis, and in turn what the challenges and opportunities are.
We work at the intersection of practice and research to examine questions such as:
How do the pressures of digital technologies influence journalism’s position in dynamic global communication ecosystems?
How do journalists navigate through global digital data and through content providing information, misinformation or disinformation?
How is journalism challenged by new data actors, civic actors and civic techs?
How are national or transnational policy frameworks protecting journalists and users in different world regions during times of crises?
As a uniquely international group of researchers from all world regions, we are best equipped to discover and analyse common issues, similarities and differences in information production and dissemination during times of crises across countries and continents.