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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.

‘Journalism needs a reinvention.’

2024-12-13. Einar Hålien, Group Editor and Senior Public Policy Adviser at Schibsted Media, shares insights on an exhaustive new report that identifies key drivers to attaining reader loyalty and rebuilding trust in news.

‘We’ve got your back’ – How Belgium’s De Standaard became a case study in driving trust

2024-12-13. In this extract from Schibsted Media’s new report: Editorial Media As Defenders Of European Democracies, Karel Verhoeven, Editor in Chief of De Standaard, explains the motivations, methods and successes of reaching readers and remaining relevant.

Building Tomorrow’s Newsroom Leaders: The Impact of the Young Media Leaders Fellowship

2024-12-10. Faced with the challenge of retaining top talent, WAN-IFRA in Asia launched a groundbreaking newsroom leadership programme five years ago. The Young Media Leaders Fellowship has since empowered 107 emerging leaders across the region, equipping them with the skills to lead and shape newsrooms.

How India’s Times Group has substantially cut its carbon footprint

2024-12-06. The Times Group, one of India’s leading media conglomerates, is taking bold steps in energy management to reduce its carbon footprint. Muralidharan K, the company’s Associate General Manager, recently explained how energy management can be a strategic tool to achieve environmental and business objectives.

Driving loyalty through streaming live local elite sports at Bonnier News

2024-12-04. Bonnier News has improved subscriber engagement by streaming live local sports, positioning these events as “fireside content” that connects communities and drives loyalty. By focusing on second-tier leagues and niche sports like floorball and “folkraces,” the Swedish media group taps into audiences’ deep emotional ties to local teams.

Ringier’s Ladina Heimgartner on leadership, AI, and the future of journalism

2024-12-03. After an extensive Q&A at WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom Summit in late October, Ladina Heimgartner, Head of Media at Ringier AG and CEO of Ringier Media in Switzerland, was asked the following question from a journalist based in Jordan: “What’s your best advice for a woman working in a leadership position in a newsroom?”

Surviving hostile and billionaire politicians: Patrícia Campos Mello on holding the line in challenging times

2024-11-29. Renowned for more than just impactful investigative reporting, Folha de S.Paulo’s Editor at Large shares her experience in exposing electoral crimes, facing misogynistic presidential attacks – and standing up to a demagogue…

Journalism under Trump 2.0: revising the rules of engagement

2024-11-29. As journalists prepare for Trump’s ’second coming,’ editors from countries who have endured antagonistic presidents offer advice on how to remain focused in times of provocation.