This month, the Global Business Journalism community continued to demonstrate its commitment to rigorous reporting, cross-cultural exchange and on-the-ground learning. From newsroom insights on covering policy in an era of misinformation to international academic partnerships and student exchanges, GBJ faculty and students engaged deeply with the forces shaping global media today. Highlights include a distinguished guest lecture by veteran journalist Angela Greiling Keane.

Journalists too often oversimplify complex geopolitical situations, turning nuanced international disputes into simple binaries of right and wrong, China-based commentator Shamim Zakaria told Global Business Journalism students at Tsinghua University. Zakaria, a native of India, said media coverage of international relations is dominated by superficial reports and stereotypes that rarely explore the underlying causes of events and often simplify the perceptions of countries a