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Gen Z’ers, editors to team up in Denmark to frame global news values

2024-03-08. A transformative, collaborative workshop bringing together more than 100 young news media users and editors from around the world, aims to identify a new set of guidelines for news outlets to ensure their products have youth appeal.

Scroll’s AI journey: Progress, challenges and some key learnings

2024-03-04. Scroll, an independent Indian news organisation, began exploring ways to incorporate Artificial Intelligence into its workflow in 2021. The digital-only organisation wanted to adapt its long-form reportage to different formats and video seemed to be its best bet to reach a large audience.

Innovate Local: How a new ad product helps Bonnier News create value for readers and local businesses

2024-02-26. In this article, based on our second Innovate Local webinar, we focus on Bonnier News Local’s ad product “Handla lokalt” (Shop Locally), which is easy to understand, easy to buy and has a natural link to social media – all of which makes it attractive to advertisers.

WAN-IFRA Unveils ‘AI Unlocked’ Programme to Drive Media Innovation, Creativity and Sustainability.

2024-02-21. WAN-IFRA announced the launch of “AI Unlocked.” The programme and forum is tailored for all news media publishers interested in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on their organisation. Through AI Unlocked, media professionals will learn, discuss, experiment with, and define ways to use AI in their business. The initiative is open to news publishers around the globe.

2023 en perspectiva y lo que queda por delante

2024-02-05. El trabajo de WAN-IFRA se guía por la convicción de que la libertad de prensa está firmemente arraigada en negocios de noticias sostenibles y económicamente independientes. Agradecemos a nuestros miembros y socios su apoyo y lo que logramos juntos en 2023, un año histórico para WAN-IFRA. La celebración de nuestro 75 aniversario se destaca como un momento clave, a medida que crece el número de editoriales globales con las que nos asociamos.

The role of tech in FUNKE Media Group’s ongoing transformation

2024-02-05. “Digitalisation is a technology-driven development. When technology is part of the problem/challenge, it can also be part of the solution. And that is, what we have been good at in the past and our mission is to be good at it in the future to adapt to “new” market mechanisms and technologies faster than others.” That is from Heimo Krum, head of transformation for FUNKE Technology in Germany. | Sponsored Content

WAN-IFRA Unveils Innovate Local Programme to Drive Media Innovation and Sustainability.

2024-01-31. WAN-IFRA announces the launch of Innovate Local, the first global forum for local media. Through the Innovate Local programme, media professionals will be able to exchange actionable and scalable ideas with a focus on opportunities and problems unique to the business of local journalism. The initiative addresses small and midsized local media and local entities of bigger media groups.

How Mensagem is bridging the news divide within Lisbon’s underreported communities

2024-01-26. A Lisbon-based digital news startup’s groundbreaking community storytelling initiative is evidence that meeting audience needs is a remedy for news avoidance – and can help rebuild trust.

Condé Nast’s six point strategy for a sustainable future

2024-01-15. Condé Nast offers an interesting case study of transformation in the publishing industry, having embarked on a significant restructuring process in order to adapt to changes in the market, its audiences and advertisers.

AI, sustainability, and elections: global editors share key concerns for 2024

2024-01-12. Globally, news media faces an uncertain future, compounded by general mistrust, big tech challenges, and mis/disinformation at scale. The good news is that across the world, editors, publishers and newsroom leaders are (mostly) up to the challenge.