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Our approach
We leverage our unique combination of media and legal expertise, together with data intelligence, to inform, connect, and empower professionals and civil society to strengthen free, fair and informed societies. We deliver our work through capacity-building programmes, legal support, events, research, news and data-driven products.
Our research
TRF Insights: Journalism in the AI era
The transition to the AI-enabled newsroom is well underway.
Our new report reveals that over 80% of journalists surveyed are using AI. Yet only 13% had an official policy in their workplace.
Explore the findings from our first TRF Insights report, which amplifies the voices of our journalism training programme alumni.
Our annual event
21 – 22 Oct, 2025
Trust Conference
Trust Conference is our flagship annual forum dedicated to tackling critical and intersecting global issues, convening world-leading experts at the forefront of shaping free, fair and informed societies.
Our journalism See all
Context is the Foundation’s award-winning media platform, providing news and analysis around three of the most significant and interconnected issues of our time: climate change, the effects of technology on society, and socio-economic inequality. Our human-centered journalism is delivered across a range of formats — from in-depth stories to videos and podcasts to newsletters.
Read our latest news stories
As UK cuts aid, we must harness science for humanitarian projects
George Richards is director of Community Jameel, an independent, global organisation that advances science and learning for communities to thrive. The cuts to
Children in Gaza defy trauma to return to school
BEIRUT – Children have returned to school in Gaza, taking classes in tents or in the rubble of schools where families sheltered during the war, but trauma, aid blockades and the threat of more fighting could…
Q&A: UK doctor says Britain is failing children with long COVID
LONDON – Respiratory consultant Binita Kane was working on the frontlines of the pandemic in Britain when her 10-year-old daughter Jasmin developed long COVID in…
Can Indonesia produce more food without deforestation?
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s government hopes an initiative to turn millions of hectares of land, including forests and peatlands, into farmland will reduce the world’s fourth-most populous nation’s reliance…
Q&A: How can fashion workers adapt to climate change?
Jason Judd, executive director of the ILR Global Labor Institute at Cornell University, discusses how workers could be helped to adapt to growing climate hazards. Growing…