A new JX Fund country profile, produced with support from The Fix Research and Advisory, breaks down how these newsrooms operate, reach their audiences, and survive relentless state pressure.

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Editor’s note: This interview is part of a series produced by The Fix under MOST — Media Organisations for Stronger Transnational Journalism, an initiative led by OBCT and its partners and co-funded by the EU. The Fix works with partner newsrooms on product, audience, and business development.

For the FixEd podcast, we spoke with Chiara Sighele, project director at OBCT.

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We start with some quick-take questions, talk about the model, and spend much of the interview discussing how AI agents – systems that can take actions on a user’s behalf, not just provide information in a chat format – could change how people consume news and how publishers distribute their stories

We'll be around the whole event, so stop by, say hello, and let's talk about the future of independent media.

See you there! 👋

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Then come find us at Booth #15, where we'll have:

▪️ a new research report on media from authoritarian countries
▪️ a first look at a few tech products we've been building for newsrooms
▪️ a vote you can take part in, and watch the results unfold in real time

📍 On September 5th, join our session "Behind the Block: Exiled Media, Circumvention & the Fight for Audiences," 15:30–17:30 — a look at how independent newsrooms operating under censorship and in exile keep reaching their readers, and what it actually takes to get past the block.📍

More or less, this is the story of Future Media Management at SSE Riga – and 300+ media managers who have passed through it over the past decade.

Our big story looks at how a modest program in Riga trained a generation of media managers from the post-Soviet space.