ENACT stands for Easy-to-Understand News for Collaborative Transformation. We are European public broadcasters and researchers working together to make the news easier to understand. 

Many people find the news hard to follow: the words can be difficult, the topics can be complex, and the pace can be fast. We believe everyone has the right to understand what is happening in the world. This hub brings together what we have learned about making news for the web, radio and television easier to understand. 

Below you will find our recommendations: practical guidance on how to produce easy-to-understand news, developed together with journalists, accessibility experts and people who use easy-to-understand news. You will also find examples: real pieces of easy-to-understand news in several languages that show how the recommendations work in practice. 

The hub is free to use. Journalists, media professionals, researchers and anyone interested in clearer news are welcome to explore it, share it, and use it in their own work. 

How to use the hub

In Recommendations, you can click on each recommendation to open it and read the full text. The recommendations are organised into three main areas: Editorial and Organisational, Journalistic, and Language and Presentation. They explain how to plan, produce, check and present easy-to-understand news in a clear and consistent way.

In Examples, you can explore real pieces of easy-to-understand news from different countries and media organisations. You can use the filters to search by language: Slovenian, Italian, German, Catalan and Latvian, with English translation. You can also search by format: audio, video and website. All the examples are in the languages of the project partners. For audio and video the subtitles are provided in English, for webpage articles you can see the English translation in the transcripts. This helps you compare how easy-to-understand news can work in different languages, platforms and media formats.