Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

The so-called “Anglo-Saxon” style of writing news has been enormously influential on journalism worldwide, but there are many other journalistic cultures and traditions in the world. What is lost and what is gained when the Anglo approach is adopted in different national newsrooms? What compromises do non-native-English speaking journalists make — with their readers or themselves — when they write in English? Do news organizations in the Western world need to rethink their assumptions about style to adapt to a changing world? What is important to maintain from the Anglo approach and what can be changed? In this panel, we will discuss these issues and more with editors from international newsrooms who grapple with these questions every day.