M20 Johannesburg Declaration: Media Summit urges global prioritisation of information integrity for the public good
M20 Media Integrity; South African National Editors' Forum (SANEF); Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) (2025), 11 pp.
"Our call on media and civil society – as well as other stakeholders such as independent information regulatory bodies and business entities, to act on: Information integrity -- Artificial Intelligence -- Media viability -- Safety -- Women and media -- Children, young people (teenagers) and marginalised groups [...]
Our call on G20 leaders to include in their final declarations to act on: Information integrity -- Artificial Intelligence -- AI in Africa -- Media viability and media freedom -- Climate crisis and information integrity -- Safety -- Rights of Women Journalists -- Rights of children and young people [...]" (Pages 3-10)
Our call on G20 leaders to include in their final declarations to act on: Information integrity -- Artificial Intelligence -- AI in Africa -- Media viability and media freedom -- Climate crisis and information integrity -- Safety -- Rights of Women Journalists -- Rights of children and young people [...]" (Pages 3-10)
"The M20 is a parallel independent initiative to the G20. As a broad alliance, we have come together to promote journalism as a public good, as a key to information integrity and G20 goals. To this end, M20 participants have compiled a set of policy briefs and convened in Johannesburg on 1-2 September, 2025 to build consensus and a common voice around broad fundamentals. These steps follow previous media initiatives during G20 processes hosted in Brazil (2024) and India (2023). The official G20 baton is to be handed to the United States in 2026. This M20 Declaration is a result of a collaborative global discussion and a foundation for further information-sharing to ensure that the G20 integrates information integrity, press freedom and media sustainability into a broader development financing architecture. This Declaration builds on and supports existing global frameworks, including the Windhoek Declaration of 1991 on a Free, Pluralistic and Independent African media, and the Windhoek+30 Declaration of 2021 on Information as a Public Good. It is aligned to the UN’s Global Principles for Information Integrity, which recognise an independent, free and pluralistic media as one of five pillars. It welcomes the focus on information Integrity in the G20 2024 Digital Economy Working Group Maceio Ministerial Declaration, and encourages the 2025 G20 to continue giving attention to this priority subject." (Page 2)
