News

Ahead of presidential elections scheduled for May 2026, Colombia hosts the UNESCO Media Literacy Week against a backdrop of political polarization and press freedom concerns

UNESCO will discuss in Cartagena how MIL can empower individuals to be able to critically assess content in the age of AI. Meanwhile AMI, the country’s most relevant media association, has voiced concern about the state of press freedom in the country.

Join UNESCO and WAN-IFRA to celebrate Media and Information Literacy Week

2025-10-12. A Global Conference in Colombia will discuss how MIL is crucial to empower individuals in the face of AI; WAN-IFRA will develop training for news executives and publishers are encouraged to join up the campaign.

US News/Media Alliance’s campaign to protect journalism from Big Tech

2025-09-30. The News/Media Alliance, the largest nonprofit trade association in the United States representing news, magazine, and digital media organisations, is launching a new ad campaign challenging Big Tech’s use of their content.

The C.H.A.S.E Project: Fostering a Safer European Digital Space against Gender-Based Hate Speech

2025-09-25. Launched in March 2024 with the support of the European Commission’s CERV programme, “Combating online hate speech by engaging online media” (C.HA.S.E.) offers a multi-faceted approach to address the rise of online hate speech targeting women and gender-diverse individuals and posing a threat to equality, safety, and freedom of expression. WAN-IFRA has collaborated on the project since its inception and is now inviting any interested peers to an online webinar that will illustrate the project, the research behind it and the investigated solutions.

M20 Johannesburg Declaration: Urgent call to counter ‘profound global crisis in integrity of information’

2025-09-05. Media policy summit urges G20 to prioritise information integrity for the public good – and calls on media, society and all stakeholders to act on critical challenges.

A new case against Google in EU and UK hopes to give publishers an opt-out of crawling

2025-08-10. Foxglove recently filed a complaint against Google AI Overviews before the European Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Rosa Curling, Foxglove Co-Executive Director, delivered an exclusive brief to the WAN-IFRA Member Associations’ Committee on what she defines an “existential threat to independent news”. 

Opinion | No crawling without consent, credit and compensation

2025-08-07. For generations, news publishers monetized their fact-based, fact-checked journalistic content by selling advertising and subscriptions against it. While generative artificial intelligence has enormous potential for good, left unchecked, it will eviscerate the economics of the publishing business, writes Paul Deegan, President and Chief Executive Officer News Media Canada | Médias d’Info Canada.

Amedia grants 400,000 young people free access to its newspapers

2025-05-21. All Norwegians aged 15 to 20 will be given free digital access to over 100 newspapers through Amedia’s new national initiative.

WAN-IFRA launches Media Literacy Policy and project with support from UNESCO

2025-05-21. The project involves several actions including: the integration of Media Literacy in the WAN-IFRA Policies, a campaign to celebrate Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week, and the development of trainings for news executives to incorporate literacy in their work.

Latin America: Press Freedom Struggles Under Increasing Authoritarianism and Financial Pressures

2025-05-20. Increasing Authoritarianism and Financial Pressures represent the dual threat that now defines journalism’s reality across the Americas. These are not parallel challenges; they are deeply interconnected. Political hostility and economic precarity are converging, weakening the role of the press as a pillar of democracy