The C.H.A.S.E Project: Fostering a Safer European Digital Space against Gender-Based Hate Speech

2025-09-25. Launched in March 2024 with the support of the European Commission’s CERV programme, “Combating online hate speech by engaging online media” (C.HA.S.E.) offers a multi-faceted approach to address the rise of online hate speech targeting women and gender-diverse individuals and posing a threat to equality, safety, and freedom of expression. WAN-IFRA has collaborated on the project since its inception and is now inviting any interested peers to an online webinar that will illustrate the project, the research behind it and the investigated solutions.

Turning news into action: Engaging Gen Z and Millennials locally

2025-09-27. Leaders of the award-winning, hyperlocal The Green Line share how they engage readers with news they can use in their daily lives; links they can use to fact-check information, and in-person community meetings to talk through the local issues that matter to them.

Journalism under siege

2025-09-26. It is getting harder every day to do the fundamental journalistic task of collecting facts and verifying information. It is also getting much more dangerous, writes Phil Chetwynd.

The unseen truth about global trust in news 

2025-09-26. Luba Kassova and Richard Addy argue that the widely repeated claim about global trust in news being in decline is misleading – and overly shaped by the United States’ experience.

Global lessons from a press in peril

2026-09-26. Martin Baron posts that democracy cannot exist without a free press – and a free press cannot exist without democracy.

Sweden’s VK Media is building its future on a young – and paying – audience

2025-09-26. Award-winning VK Media has been a respected news brand in the city of Umeå since its print-only days. As early as the 1990s, it was the first local media company in Sweden to put significant journalistic resources into digital local news.

Times of darkness

2025-09-26. Our current environment of misinformation, mistrust, the spread of illiberal politics through influencer-style authoritarians, and the erosion of democratic norms, is “less an era of change than a change of era,” writes Fernando Belzunce.

Sweden’s Bonnier News boosts print efficiency by 50 percent with AI

2025-09-25. Bonnier News uses ‘AI-assisted robots’ in prepress to produce 45 of its newspapers across Sweden and Finland. The company’s senior business developer explains the print automation project, how it was implemented, and the benefits it has delivered.

You deserve the truth, not AI’s interpretation of it

2025-09-25. To understand the world around us we need reliable and rigorous reporting, with AI as a tool that amplifies such journalism rather than exploits and distorts it, writes Liz Corbin and Vincent Peyrègne.

Shutting down the internet shuts down your Right to Know

2025-09-25. Winnie Kamau calls out the alarming global trend of governments shutting down the internet in times of political crisis, with 294 such shutdowns in 54 countries in 2024 – including 15 in Africa.