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Norway’s VG finding success with six AI-related newsroom tools

2024-04-17. Verdens Gang (VG), one of Norway’s premier news outlets, is using AI to help enhance its newsroom productivity. With a team of seven developers, VG is experimenting with various AI-driven tools built to meet the needs of the newsroom.

WAN-IFRA announces the winners of the Digital Media Awards Africa 2024.

2024-04-16. WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards honour African news publishers whose projects and products showcase creativity and service to their readers. We are excited to announce the winners in the 2024 edition of the competition! 

South Africa’s Daily Maverick shuts down for 24 hours to flag global crisis in journalism

2024-04-15. South Africa’s membership-based Daily Maverick has shut down for a day – 15 April – to bring urgent attention to the emergency facing journalism around the world. It warns that the market failure has put independent journalism at risk of collapse, with effects that will be catastrophic.

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Insights

News and insights to support innovation and business development.

New report: Best practice in reader revenue

2024-02-02. This new report features 10 global case studies examining news publishers’ reader revenue efforts and strategies. The examples here come from eight countries on four continents, and are local, regional and national brands.

Media Watch: Take the pulse of AI in news media

AI is at the pulse of your business intelligence. WAN-IFRA helps you in your daily market watch by curating the essential coverage about applied Artificial Intelligence use cases and trends in the news media, in one place.

New Report: State of Asian Newsrooms 2023

2024-02-01. This new report features issues Asian newsrooms will be prioritising in 2024, ranging from product innovation to implications of AI, online and social media metrics to print vs digital audience, among other things.

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Promoting quality journalism,newsroom transformation and a free press for over 25 years

Digital Revenue Network

Tap into our expertise on digital subscriptions, premium advertising and audience focused transformation

Table Stakes Europe

Our performance challenge based programme for local and regional news media

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We provide our members with new ideas and applied research by bringing the outside in, looking beyond what is already known

World Printers Forum

The central point for the international news media print community

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We build a common understanding of the news media policy challenges around the world

Women in News

WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) aims to increase women’s leadership and voices in the news

Press Freedom

WAN-IFRA oversees initiatives to ensure that the press' essential role in society is understood and respected.

Keep journalism alive – support free, independent media worldwide

From a coup d’état in Myanmar to the crisis in Afghanistan and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, over the last 12 months our members have been incredibly generous in their offers of support to WAN-IFRA Media Freedom. Many ask us how best they can assist – one way is to donate to our dedicated fund to support media in crisis.

Press Freedom Advocacy Campaigns

WAN-IFRA  speaks out in defence of press freedom to reduce censorship and champion the editorial and economic independence of media. Our advocacy campaigns in support of colleagues from around the globe are endorsed and promoted by members, local Media Freedom Committees, professional colleagues and peers from the global human rights and freedom of expression community.

Women in News Digital ABC

The essential guide for media managers and journalists to confront the disrupted traditional outputs of the media industry and to build and operationalise strategies to manage a successful digital transition.

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