To mark 40 years of fighting for press freedom and the right to information, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) took over the Gaîté Lyrique music centre in Paris on 15 November to host its Informing Tomorrow’s World festival, with a programme that included conferences, a photo exhibition, a concert and the 2025 RSF Press Freedom Awards ceremony.  

Twenty-nine journalists, photojournalists and media outlets from around the world were honoured across five categories: the Courage Prize, the Impact Prize, the Independence Prize, the Mohamed Maïga Prize for African Investigative Journalism and the Lucas Dolega-SAIF Photo Prize.  

“This festival is our way of saying thank you to all those who inform, question, doubt and tell stories. And above all, to you, curious public, engaged citizens, without whom press freedom would be nothing but words with no substance,” Thibaut Bruttin, Director General of Reporters Without Borders, said.