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.

Regenerating the base layer of democracy: local news

2025-09-24. Jonathan Heawood argues that local news is the foundation of a healthy democracy, yet it has been weakened by political hostility, collapsing business models, and the rise of social media.

Expert opinion by the high-level panel on public interest media

2025-09-24. Eleven of the world’s leading economists, including two Nobel laureates, urge governments to recognise and uphold the economic value of public interest media in the age of AI.

Indonesia’s KG Media outlines four-step plan to withstand AI disruption

2025-09-23. As AI reshapes the media landscape, publishers must invest in building direct audience platforms, diversified revenue streams and – above all – in high-quality journalism, says Andy Budiman, CEO of KG Media in Indonesia. The key is to “differentiate ourselves through the quality of our journalism and the capability of our journalists.”

Mapping the AI opportunity landscape in publishing: A 2×2 CEO framework for implementation

2025-09-23. During his time as Chief Strategy Officer at The Economist, Suprio Guha Thakurta decided to start a weekly update for his colleagues about how the industry was developing. That soon turned into an internal, must-read newsletter. Suprio, now a consultant to news organisations globally, will regularly share his perspectives with WAN-IFRA’s audience – starting with what else, AI.

Newslaundry’s AI chatbot is doing more than answering queries

India’s Newslaundry has built an in-house AI chatbot, Ask Birubala, to handle subscriber queries and streamline the publisher’s support workflows. Beyond troubleshooting, the tool is reshaping internal roles and strengthening its subscription-first strategy.