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Three Indian printing plants receive WAN-IFRA Carbon Footprint Verification Certificate

2025-10-10. ABP Kolkata and The Times of India’s Ahmedabad and Delhi-Sahibabad plants receive Carbon Footprint Verification Certificate

Winners of the 2025 Sustainability and Print Innovation Awards announced at World Printers Summit

2025-10-09. WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum has announced the winners of this year’s Sustainability and Print Innovation Awards, honouring excellence in media innovation, reader engagement and sustainability in publishing. Publishers from Bangladesh, Singapore, and Ireland bag top honours for innovation in print and sustainability.

Strength in Unity: #WND2025 shows journalism won’t back down

2025-10-03. From Tonga to Afghanistan, Canada to Venezuela and Korea to Estonia, the global campaign brought together more than 1 000 newsbrands in 111 countries in a record-breaking show of solidarity.

WAN-IFRA welcomes 12 pioneering publishers to the Advanced Newsroom AI Catalyst cohort

2025-10-02. Twelve selected news organisations met in London on 1-2 October to address shared challenges, as part of WAN-IFRA’s efforts to foster members’ AI expertise.

Media companies and start-ups join WAN-IFRA Finnish innovation programme

2025-09-29. WAN-IFRA has announced a groundbreaking new media innovation programme teaming Finnish media companies and start-ups. It will officially kick off on 29-30 September in Helsinki, in partnership with Finnmedia, the Finnish Media Federation, and the Media Industry Research Foundation of Finland.

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.

Print’s Future: AI & Distribution at Indian Printers Summit 2025

2025-09-18. Media leaders delved into the role of AI and distribution strategies at Indian Printers Summit 2025. More than 260 delegates from over 50 organisations attended the event, which focused on innovation and the adoption of new technologies in publishing and newspaper distribution.

Stronger Together: Ukrainian media find power in collaboration

2025-09-17. Six months into the Stronger Together programme, Ukrainian independent media are producing new investigative content, building stronger connections, and gaining critical tools for resilience – further boosted by today’s launch of the WIN Ukraine Leadership Accelerator Programme.

WAN-IFRA Announces Second Cohort of Newsroom AI Catalyst in Latin America

2025-09-15. WAN-IFRA is proud to announce the launch of the second cohort of the Newsroom AI Catalyst programme in Latin America, expanding this global initiative to help newsrooms harness the potential of artificial intelligence in journalism.

Global news media call on U.S. to scrap new visa proposal

2025-09-11. Dozens of major news and journalist organisations worldwide are urging the U.S. government to drop a proposal that would drastically shorten the time foreign correspondents can live and work in America.