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Inter Press Service (IPS) is a global news agency. Its main focus is the production of independent news and analysis about events and processes affecting economic, social and political development. It provides reporting on the so-called global South, civil society, and globalization. Its aim is to act as a communication channel that privileges the voices and the concerns of the poorest and creates a climate of understanding, accountability and participation around development, promoting a new international information order between the South and the North.

It was set up in 1964 by the Italian journalist Roberto Savio and the Argentine political scientist Pablo Piacentini. with the objective to fill the information gap between Europe and Latin America after the political turbulence following the Cuban revolution of 1959. Later it extended its editorial focus and expanded his network to include all continents.

Other News, a personal initiative of Roberto Savio, is dedicated to the collection and redistribution of professional news and analysis that the commercial media routinely ignore. For Robertos vision on modern journalism, read this interview (19/07/2022).

Pressenza is an international news agency dedicated to news about peace and nonviolence with offices in Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Bogotá, Bordeaux, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Córdoba (Argentina), Florence, Lima, London, Madrid, Manila, Mar del Plata, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Moscow, Munich, New Delhi, New York, Palermo, Paris, Porto, Quito, Rome, San José de Costa Rica, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, Turin, Valencia and Vienna.
The key words are humanism, nonviolence, human rights, disarmament and diversity.

The Conversation tells us they combine academic rigour with journalistic flair. They explain all about it on their site. As a taster I give you a feed of the last five articles they published in the European edition.

• ‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
  13 September 2024 by Saul Justin Newman, Research Fellow, Centre For Longitudinal Studies, UCL
  Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.
• The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one saw
  12 September 2024 by Stephen Hicks, Research Fellow in Computational Seismology, UCL
  This tsunami, triggered by a melting glacier in Greenland, is a sign of things to come.
• Macron-Barnier duo is neither a coalition nor cohabitation – could it be a ‘coalitation’?
  12 September 2024 by Olivier Guyottot, Enseignant-chercheur en stratégie et en sciences politiques, INSEEC Grande École
  ‘Coalitation’ is a neologism to designate an unprecedented institutional relationship between cohabitation and coalition involving the presidential party and Michel Barnier’s Les Républicains.
• Entrepreneurial potential: Which generation is most likely to succeed in business?
  12 September 2024 by Javier Bouzas Arufe, Profesor, Emprendedor e Investigador en economía y empresa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  Social, cultural and economic contexts shape each generation, making some better than others at spotting business opportunities.
• Childhood diabetes cases have risen sharply over the last 30 years in Europe, but some countries are affected more than others – new study
  11 September 2024 by Marta Carolina Ruiz Grao, Profesora Contratada Doctora. Facultad de Enfermería de Albacete (UCLM). Grupo de investigación AGE-ABC (Envejecimiento Activo, Estilos de Vida Saludable y Cognición) de la UCLM, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
  Childhood diabetes has almost doubled in the last two decades, with massive increases in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Middle East Eye is an independently funded digital news organisation covering stories from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as related content from beyond the region.
Its unique coverage offers on-the-ground news, comment and analysis that brings local viewpoints to the fore. Reporters are encouraged to read between the lines and take stories one step further rather than simply follow the official narrative. 

The Palestine Chronicle provides a forum that strives to highlight issues of relevance to human rights, national struggles, freedom and democracy in the form of daily news, commentary, features, TV programs, podcasts, book reviews, photos, art .. in addition to media and other speaking engagements. Its Editor-in-Chief is Ramzy Baroud.

Democracy Now! produces a daily, global, independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

Declassified UK investigates Britain’s military and intelligence agencies, its most powerful corporations and its impact on human rights and the environment. They tell us for instance about Ireland but also how The Guardian had gone in six short years from being the natural outlet to place stories exposing wrongdoing by the security state to a platform trusted by the security state to amplify its information operations.

Since 2001 Media Lens has been describing how mainstream newspapers and broadcasters operate as a propaganda system for the elite interests that dominate modern society.