World News Media Congress 2026 Report

The report distills the key takeaways from the event in Marseille, focusing heavily on industry resilience, AI’s growing impact on news, the need for collaboration, and reshaping the value exchange between publishers and tech platforms.

Carbon Audit: Call to Action – Managing Emissions in Newspaper Printing Plants

The new industry report provides newspaper printing facilities with a structured framework to measure, manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their operations.

Future Newsrooms Study 2026

FT Strategies and WAN-IFRA’s global benchmark of how newsrooms are changing, what they are prioritising and where they are going next. All based on a survey of about 480 newsroom executives from more than 80 countries.

FIPP Global Subscription Snapshot 2026

The most comprehensive report on the global digital subscriptions market today, FIPP’s Global Digital Subscription Snapshot features information on a huge range of individual titles as well as video streaming and music services.

World Press Trends Outlook 2025-2026

WAN-IFRA’s annual flagship research report reveals an industry that is not in retreat, instead innovating and adapting – all in the face of daunting challenges, both to its journalism and its business.

Digital Media Awards Worldwide Report 2025

2025-12-22. This report features the winners of WAN-IFRA’s 2025 Digital Media Awards Worldwide competition. The finalists were selected from the prestigious regional awards that WAN-IFRA holds throughout the year. Ultimately it boils down to 12 winners, all judged by a global panel of news media executives and experts.

Where publishers are seeing AI’s real value – so far

2025-09-05. With all the investment in AI in the last few years, publishers are still struggling with measuring the technology’s true value – and its ROI. While much of the industry discourse has focused on understanding the technology itself, the harder question of measuring real impact and financial returns has remained largely unexplored. This report addresses that critical gap.

World News Media Congress Playbook

2025-08-01. We have distilled tactics, strategies, best practices, and even failures from the more than 120 news executives who spoke over the three days at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Krakow in May 2025. Seven chapters cover the broader issues of business sustainability: naturally, AI; leadership; newsroom transformation; audience engagement; revenue strategies; and the next frontier in journalism.

Mapping the News Creators Landscape

2025-008-04. The News Creators Project is a six-month study into news creators for Google by FT Strategies and supported by WAN-IFRA. The report draws on research conducted across three phases, including in-depth interviews with 15+ creators and 25+ Advisory Board experts, including creators from YouTube, TikTok, Substack, and Instagram.

The Age of AI in the Newsroom

2025-05-12. WAN-IFRA’s WIN Age of AI in the Newsroom report offers case studies, presenting an unprecedented look at how media houses from Azerbaijan and Jordan to Kenya and Ukraine — ranging from legacy broadcasters to lean digital startups — are adopting AI tools to enhance reporting, optimise production and reimagine newsroom efficiency.