Building the future now: Ukrainian regional media turn learning into action in Lviv

Across three days of exchange surrounding the XV Media Congress in Lviv, Ukrainian media leaders explored how to sustain independent journalism during the war, create safer and more inclusive newsrooms, strengthen relationships with their communities and turn international partnerships into practical organisational change.

Publishers’ AI rights group SPUR doubles membership as The New York Times and AFP join

The standards coalition marks its largest expansion since launch, surpassing 80 global media members.

WAN-IFRA announces 2026 Print & Sustainability Awards winners

WAN-IFRA has announced the winners of the 2026 Print & Sustainability Awards, recognising publishers and media organisations for work spanning print-digital integration, audience engagement, sustainable production, supply chain innovation and print advertising.

How The Washington Post is making relentless journalism visible

We keep saying it, and with good reason: news organisations must become much better at taking readers behind the byline. We need to show not only what journalism uncovers, but how it is made and what it takes to produce.

The journalist as a modern day Robin Hood

We are flooded with information, yet understanding the world has never felt harder. It is time for a new contract between journalists and the public, writes Amalie Kestler, editor in chief, Politiken.

‘A dawn of hope’: How Ethiopia’s Addis Maleda left print behind

After printing 210 editions of its weekly newspaper uninterrupted, rising costs and a shrinking ad market pushed Addis Maleda to a fully digital model in 2022. Founder and CEO Amanyehun R. Sisay shared the story at a BRAVE Virtual Study Visit.

Weser-Kurier takes newspaper page production into the browser, automating 80 percent of layouts

The German regional publisher has spent two years moving to browser-based print production and automated page layout with PPI Media’s CX Fusion. The change has made production 30 percent faster and reduced new-staff training from months to weeks.

Print knows its circulation. Now it needs to know its readers

India’s newspaper publishers have built enormous reach. They must now deepen engagement and monetise audience relationships as readers fragment across platforms and advertisers demand greater accountability.

Thank goodness for the storytellers – the ones who probe, question, irritate the powerful

“Technology turns up the volume of public discourse but rarely gives us the information we need at the moment we need it. Journalists do.” Meera Selva marks World News Day with a call to recognise and protect those who challenge the status quo.

America, the ‘arsenal of democracy,’ is now disarming the press

In a radio address in December 1940, one year before the US entered World War II, Franklin D Roosevelt described America as “the arsenal of democracy”. Today, the guns are falling silent across the western front. Independent journalism, the lifeblood of an informed democracy, faces existential challenges, particularly in the US, writes Lionel Barber for World News Day.