HIGHLIGHTS DURING 2025
The 13 major events marking 2025 for the French media development agency.
CFI’s first carbon assessment
CFI carried out its first comprehensive carbon footprint assessment in collaboration with GRET and Suez Consulting, as part the development of its green strategy.
Media and civil society facing the challenges of the new Syria
This event, organised by CFI at the Arab World Institute, took the form of two round-table discussions bringing together journalists and representatives of Syrian institutions to discuss the prospects for Syria following the fall of the regime.
The Marseille Journalism Conference
Several sessions organised by or in collaboration with CFI: Mediterranean and African radio stations, journalism in exile, an overview of the media landscape in Senegal and Sudan, and a ‘carte blanche’ for the Qarib project. CFI also supported an award for media and information literacy in the region
The Global Fact-Checking Summit in Brazil
Thanks to CFI’s support, around ten fact-checkers from French-speaking Africa contributed to the Global Fact-Checking Summit, which took place in June in Rio de Janeiro. They also took part in a round-table discussion organised by the Institut français to share their experiences with their Brazilian counterparts.
Project coordinators from Africa in Paris
The seven partners coordinating projects in various African countries were invited to Paris for a week of work and meetings with their counterparts in the media and diplomatic circles.
Yak Vdoma: Three years of support for Ukrainian journalists in Bucharest
Over the course of three and a half years, the Yak Vdoma residency brought together a total of nearly 50 journalists from Ukraine (90 per cent of whom were women), enabled a multitude of journalistic and documentary projects reaching hundreds of thousands of people, and gave rise to numerous meetings, workshops and training sessions in Bucharest, Constanța, Chișinău, Tbilisi, Paris and Lviv. From 2026, CFI’s mission will refocus on supporting journalists who have returned to Ukraine, as well as public media organisations that have remained in free zones and continue to work under difficult conditions.
A new academic year with the MEAE
To mark the 1st edition of La Fabrique de la Diplomatie, CFI organised several workshops with France Médias Monde, notably on investigative journalism and artificial intelligence. It also brought together several specialists for a round-table discussion entitled “What measures can be taken to counter disinformation strategies?” A few days later, the “Information War” was the theme of a day of workshops and debates organised at the Quai d’Orsay. Among the sessions was a round-table discussion by the Voices in Exile project.
CFI’s MEDIADEV Expert Sessions
Focusing on the fight against disinformation! Featuring high-quality presentations that offered an insight into the day-to-day work of journalists and fact-checkers within the CFI network. The event was the subject of a programme on RFI’s L’Atelier des médias.
Africa Fact Summit
As it has done every year for the past three years, CFI was a partner of the Africa Fact Summit. The 2025 event, held in Dakar – the first time it has taken place in a French-speaking city – brought together around a hundred fact-checkers from across the African continent.
AI Week in Benin. CFI brought together 25 journalists from Benin, Chad and Togo in Cotonou, as part of the MediAOS project, to cover Benin’s 7th Digital Week, which this year focused on the theme ‘AI, media and digital technology’. The journalists worked together to produce reports and live coverage broadcast on Medium and across MediAOS’s thirty or so media partners.
Exhibition: ‘Freedom Under Fire: Voices and Communities of Ukraine in Wartime’
Organised by CFI at the Théâtre de la Concorde (Paris) as part of the Institut français’s ‘Ukraine in France’ season, this exhibition was presented by Ukrainian MP Mykyta Poturaiev, Chair of the Committee on Humanitarian Policy and Information, and Lidiia Taran, from the Ukrinform news agency, in the presence of Emmanuelle Talon, CEO of CFI.
18th Annual Forum of ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism)
CFI organised several events at the annual forum of its partner ARIJ (5-7 December 2025, Amman, Jordan) and held working meetings with members of its community who were in attendance, focusing in particular on the Qarib, SA7, Kalam min Souria and Israel-Palestine Support projects.
Adoption of CFI’s green strategy
Following a year marked by several collaborative workshops, CFI’s first green strategy has been adopted!
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