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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.

Sales expertise, gender diversity key to digital media success, initiative finds

2024-01-11. Digital native companies with dedicated sales teams and solid gender diversity are more successful than those that do not, according to findings from a year-long multi-national research initiative by Project Oasis.

Argentina’s Clarín introduces AI assistant UalterAI to help boost engagement

2024-01-11. Argentina’s Clarín has added an AI tool to its website to enhance reader engagement. On each published story, readers can now choose AI written summaries, select alternative formats and find additional context for the original news item.

Mastering frontpage engagement: Norway’s VG aligns strategy and analytics

2024-01-04. Verdens Gang (VG) is Norway’s largest news website. In navigating the delicate balance between news integrity, reader engagement, and revenue generation, VG.no has crafted a unique, data-driven approach.

The 5 factors driving Schibsted’s digital transformation

2023-12-22. We have written numerous times about how Schibsted in the Nordics serves as an ongoing reference in the industry for “digital transformation” done right. Of course digital transformation looks different from publisher to publisher, with different KPIs, different approaches, different successes. Here is what it looks like for Schibsted today.

Game changer: AI takes the lead in our Top 10 editorial stories from 2023

2023-12-20. Looking back on a tumultuous 2023, it’s not surprising that, through war, climate crises and political and economic turmoil, the introduction of ChatGPT saw AI grabbing global headlines – and our editorials offering sage advice, resources and tools in countering this new disruption, proved our most popular reads.

New report: 9 deep dives into best practice in innovation

2023-12-20. WAN-IFRA just published a new report featuring deep dives into each of the nine winners of the association’s annual Digital Media Award Worldwide competition.

200,000 stories untold

2023-12-19. “We appeal to you as members of the free press, on behalf of our colleagues caught in the midst of this catastrophe, too many of whom have lost their lives, to do everything in your power to stop the killing of journalists in Gaza.”

A global approach to media safety

2023-12-19. With press freedom challenged around the world, WAN-IFRA Members can be proud of the contribution their Association makes to improving media safety and advocating on behalf of journalists and newsrooms worldwide. Through direct engagements with local media partners and solid alliances internationally, we aim to raise standards and embed a culture of safety in every newsroom.

Journalists in Gaza need your help. Here’s how

2023-12-08. The death of 63 journalists in Gaza and the displacement and trauma of hundreds of others is devastating to watch. Among over 16,000 civilian deaths, the catastrophe unfolding before us is rendered even worse by a sense of powerlessness. Despite the challenges of delivering assistance to Gaza, there are initiatives aimed at directly supporting journalists and their families.