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Profile: Carlos Fernando Chamorro

2024-05-27. For Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, independence as a journalist is above everything. It has led to an extraordinary career in the news media, but also to a painful exile for him and his family.

Carlos F. Chamorro’s Golden Pen of Freedom acceptance speech

2024-05-27. “Journalism done from exile remains the last reserve of all our freedoms.” Carlos Fernando Chamorro received the Golden Pen of Freedom during the 75th WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress – read his acceptance speech.

Shifting perspectives and changing norms in Tanzania

2024-05-17. Our EDITOR TO EDITOR series honours WAN-IFRA’s 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates, announced this week. Here, Beatrice Bandawe, Managing Editor of The Guardian Limited in Tanzania, reveals her journey as gender advocate and policy reformer.

Exiled, not silenced: amplifying the voices of Myanmar’s ethnic communities – while boosting grassroots journalism

2024-05-17. Our EDITOR TO EDITOR series honours WAN-IFRA’s 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates, announced this week. Here, Asia regional Laureate Nan Paw Gay, Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Karen Information Center in Myanmar, shares her journey in exile.

WAN-IFRA Announces 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates

2024-05-14. Three outstanding newsroom leaders from Africa, the Arab region and Southeast Asia have been named 2024 Laureates of the Women in News (WIN) Editorial Leadership Award.

Digital Media Awards Asia 2024: SPH Media emerges as the biggest winner.

2024-04-24. Singapore’s leading news publisher, SPH Media is the major winner at this year’s prestigious Digital Media Awards Asia organised by WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, taking home a total of eight trophies.

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! 

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

2024-04-15. WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards honour European news publishers whose projects and products showcase creativity, inspiration and service to their readers. We are happy to announce the winners in the 17th year of the awards!

WAN-IFRA unveils the Digital Media Awards Americas 2024 winners.

2024-04-11. WAN-IFRA announced the 2024 Digital Media Americas Awards winners in Panama City during its annual Digital Media LATAM conference. More than 140 projects of 69 media companies from 17 different countries in North America, Central America and South America participated, highlighting topics such as diversity, climate change, the problem of drug trafficking, innovation and the elections, and latent concerns in the region.

Digital Media Awards: A salute to pioneering reader revenue initiatives across regions

2024-04-10. WAN-IFRA recently announced the regional winners for our latest round of Digital Media Awards in Africa, the Americas and Europe. And last month, we presented the trophies to our winners in South Asia during the Digital Media India event.