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WAN-IFRA and FIPP Forge Strategic Alliance to Strengthen Global Media Collaboration

2025-03-25. WAN-IFRA and FIPP, two of the world’s leading media trade associations, have formed a strategic alliance to foster greater collaboration and innovation within the industry. This partnership will empower publishers to navigate the rapidly evolving digital media landscape through enhanced knowledge sharing and expanded resources, ensuring a more resilient and future-ready industry.

Trumping the trolls: Lessons in overcoming the new digital authoritarian playbook

2025-03-21. As South Africa marked Human Rights Day today, award-winning investigative legal journalist Karyn Maughan shares key learnings on remaining true to the essence of journalism while countering disinformation, confronting the abuse of power – and facing down a presidential SLAPP suit.

Protecting journalists in the Digital Age: an inside look into the workings of the world’s first Online Safety Editor

2025-03-21. Four years into a role designed to tackle online abuse, Reach Plc’s Rebecca Whittington puts the spotlight on this ongoing scourge, ahead of the upcoming release of WAN-IFRA WIN’s Newsroom Policy Guide to Fight Online Harassment.

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Insights

News and insights to support innovation and business development.

Who is Setting the News Agenda? New report shows some progress in gender equality – but barriers remain

2025-03-04. A new report from WAN-IFRA WIN highlights ongoing disparities in gender representation in media leadership roles across major global regions, as men continue to dominate business and editorial leadership roles. WIN responds with a decisive all to action.

Field Trip Report: AI Study Tour to San Francisco and Silicon Valley

2025-02-08. From 27 to 31 January, WAN-IFRA hosted some fifteen international media executives on an exclusive field trip to meet and learn from California’s generative AI pioneers. This mission report sets out the main lessons learnt at the nerve centre of world-class artificial intelligence.

Navigating sustained newsroom transformation – Report on the latest round of Table Stakes Europe

2025-01-30. Our new report draws on the experiences of European news publishers who made significant headway with their digital- and audiences-first initiatives and built stronger relationships with their readers, while at the same time creating momentum for long-term change.

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Events

Essential networking events for publishers across the globe

Conferences

Network with other leaders and innovators in publishing

Connect

Connecting industry suppliers to our global community of publishers

Awards

Recognise the groundbreaking innovators in publishing

Study Tours

Visit the hubs of publishing and media development

Communities

Learn more about our expert member communities

Press Freedom

We protect the rights of journalists and publishers to operate a free media

World Editors Forum

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

Newsroom AI Catalyst

Our accelerator programme for prototypes and a roadmap to scale up artificial intelligence in the newsroom

Research & Innovation

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

Public Affairs and Media Policy

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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