The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has officially adopted the Development Cooperation Principles on Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment. The Principles aim to respond to the urgency facing the information environment, where a confluence of financial, social, political, and technological forces increasingly undermines media as a democratic institution, journalism as a profession, and information as a public good. These include the capture of media interests, threats to journalist safety, declining public trust in journalism, collapsing business models, pervasive disinformation, and growing authoritarianism.
