After being among the first French media groups to receive this recognition in 2023, France Médias Monde has renewed its Journalism Trust Initiative (JTI) certification.
Developed as an international ISO standard, the JTI is an initiative by Reporters Without Borders that promotes free and independent information worldwide. It evaluates news organizations against criteria covering editorial reliability, ethical and professional principles, and transparency. The certification process—based on a questionnaire of nearly 200 items—assesses areas such as editorial organization (ethical framework, newsroom independence, protection of sources, content accuracy, transparency toward audiences, among others), funding sources, governance independence, legal structure, and social management practices.
All of France Médias Monde’s responses are publicly available on the JTI platform (jti-app.com) in a transparency report. This report has undergone an external audit, valid for two years, conducted by the independent third-party organization Deloitte, which certified its accuracy and confirmed France Médias Monde’s compliance with JTI ethical and professional standards.
In an international context increasingly marked by information manipulation, disinformation, and threats to press freedom, the renewal of this certification reaffirms the status and vital role of France Médias Monde’s media outlets in delivering free, independent, verified, and balanced information to global audiences, in French and 20 other languages.
