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‘We don’t use AI anymore – we live in it’: Three years after ChatGPT’s debut, publishers confront an existential crossroads

2025-11-18: Since OpenAI’s chatbot launched, concerns about AI’s impact on news publishing have only become more urgent, says Ezra Eeman. “In 2023 we asked, ‘How do we use it?’ In 2024, ‘How can it make us more efficient?’ In 2025, we’re asking, ‘How do we survive this?’”

Leading with precision: Johanna Lahti’s approach to transforming Ilta-Sanomat

2025-11-18. Six years into her role as the Senior Editor-in-Chief of Ilta-Sanomat, Finland’s largest news outlet, Johanna Lahti – who also serves on the Board of our World Editors Forum – has fostered an open and fair atmosphere within the publication. At the heart of her leadership is a drive to connect with the paper’s vast everyday audience: “Media like ours can in no way dismiss or fail to understand people’s small joys and fears.”

Independent CEO Broughton urges publishers to get excited about AI

2025-11-17. The news industry is seeing a variety of reactions to AI, from fight-or-flight to a recent report saying many journalists haven’t had the time or training to use it. However, Christian Broughton, CEO of the UK’s Independent, sees only one appropriate approach: Embrace it! 

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Insights

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Where publishers are seeing AI’s real value – so far

2025-09-05. With all the investment in AI in the last few years, publishers are still struggling with measuring the technology’s true value – and its ROI. While much of the industry discourse has focused on understanding the technology itself, the harder question of measuring real impact and financial returns has remained largely unexplored. This report addresses that critical gap.

World News Media Congress Playbook

2025-08-01. We have distilled tactics, strategies, best practices, and even failures from the more than 120 news executives who spoke over the three days at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Krakow in May 2025. Seven chapters cover the broader issues of business sustainability: naturally, AI; leadership; newsroom transformation; audience engagement; revenue strategies; and the next frontier in journalism.

Mapping the News Creators Landscape

2025-008-04. The News Creators Project is a six-month study into news creators for Google by FT Strategies and supported by WAN-IFRA. The report draws on research conducted across three phases, including in-depth interviews with 15+ creators and 25+ Advisory Board experts, including creators from YouTube, TikTok, Substack, and Instagram.

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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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