With authoritarianism on the rise, press freedom is challenged in many countries – and it costs money to keep it alive. Arete News focuses on international organizations out of a belief that the future of our planet depends on cooperation, which, in turn, depends on having an informed public that can agree on a set of common facts to find solutions.
"Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without these, we have no shared reality. You can't solve any problem, let alone existential ones like climate change. You can't have journalism. You can't have democracy. And in a system like that, only a dictatorship wins," Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa told PBS NewsHour.
"You're not going to have an influencer or a content creator stand up to a dictator," she said of the need for trained journalists who have standards, principles and ethics that sometimes go against their own self-interest. "You lose journalism the way we practice it, you lose democracy."
Arete News works to deliver facts through unbiased, nonpartisan coverage of the often hidden world of international organizations, treaties and policies. As U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said of the (solvable) climate and nature crises: "Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish."
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