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Denmark’s Zetland targets 40 percent growth in 2025 as it expands into Finland

2025-01-16. Danish start-up Zetland has found success by focusing on journalism as an experience, which includes highly curating stories for its members, making stories more personable and directly engaging with their audience at live events.

A call to arms for journalists

25-01-16. It’s time the news media stopped bemoaning their fate, restated their purpose and cooperated to carve out a commercial future writes Branko Brkic.

How two leading Asian news publishers balance subscriptions and advertising

2025-01-16. “The fact that it didn’t work two years ago doesn’t mean it won’t next time,” said Catherine So, CEO of the South China Morning Post, highlighting the media landscape being constantly shaped by technology, shifting audiences, and economic uncertainty.

Second edition of WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom AI Catalyst Europe launched.

2025-01-15. WAN-IFRA announced the seventeen news organisations participating in the second edition of a global series featuring eight catalysts across four regions. The intensive programme combines expert guidance with hands-on experience, equipping newsrooms with the knowledge and tools needed to drive strategic AI initiatives.

What’s ahead in 2025: WAN-IFRA’s global leadership team weighs in

2025-01-10. Based in several countries throughout the world, WAN-IFRA’s executives have a unique umbrella view of the forces, people and projects shaping the news media industry – and so, are perfectly placed to share global insights and perspectives on the year ahead.

It is time to double down on what we do best – reliable, fact-based, great journalism

2025-01-09. A statement from WAN-IFRA in response to the announcement made on 7 January 2025 by Meta that it will end fact-checking on its US platforms and revise prohibited content restrictions.

5 Lessons in 5 years of building a Gen Z-first newsroom

2025-01-09. A pivot from broadcast news to founding a young, independent digital-first newsroom has given The Current founder Marium Chaudhry an inside look at how a ‘drastically different’ younger digital audience disseminates content – and the issues they vote on.

New report highlights best practice in innovation with 12 cases of excellence

2025-01-08. The 12 case studies featured in our innovation report are winners of WAN-IFRA’s annual Digital Media Awards Worldwide, recognising outstanding achievements in digital media by the news industry.

How Dow Jones safeguards content while embracing AI

2025-01-08. AI offers many possibilities for news publishers, and financial news giant Dow Jones is among those working to optimise their use of the technology. “It’s a big opportunity,” says Ingrid Verschuren of Dow Jones. 

How BBC Verify and AFP convey transparency to build audience trust

2024-12-17. Representatives from two major global news providers, BBC and AFP, recently explained how their organisations are making great efforts to combat audience mistrust and news avoidance.