How the German Press Agency is reinventing news distribution for the agentic age

dpa is preparing to launch a “trusted information layer” designed to plug its verified news and data directly into the AI-powered workflows of its media clients.

As platform pressure grows, elDiario.es bets on trust and reader-funded journalism

As platforms reshape distribution and revenues shrink, elDiario.es is betting on a different path: reader funding, transparency, and deep community ties. Built in the wake of Spain’s media credibility crisis, its membership model shows how trust, not scale, can underpin a more resilient future for journalism.

Stig Ørskov to EU Speakers of Parliaments: Let’s live up to our shared responsibility

“Citizens must feel confident that the press is holding you and your colleagues in the European parliaments accountable – on their behalf. And they will only feel that confidence if the press is truly free from influence from the politicians it must scrutinise.”

Middle East journalism innovates across borders, conflict and constraint

WAN-IFRA’s Middle Eastern Digital Media Awards winners combine verification, audience participation and public value across the region.

African Digital Media Award Winners 2026: 11th Edition

Today, we celebrate excellence, innovation, and the future of digital journalism across the African continent.

British and Scandinavian news publishers lead media innovation in Europe at the Digital Media Awards

Selected from entries across 24 European countries, this year’s winners champion a new era of cross-sector collaboration, proving that journalism’s impact is greatest when it engages with the wider community.

World’s press condemns killing of Amal Khalil, demands justice

World Editors Forum President, David Walmsley, has written to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to demand an inquiry into the death of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil. Read his full letter here.

Serbia’s war on the press: The full playbook in 10 chapters

Ranked 104 on RSF’s 25th World Press Freedom Index, Serbia is not improvising. While most authoritarian governments lean on a handful of tools, President Aleksandar Vučić’s government is running a deliberate, coordinated system in which every instrument of press suppression is deployed simultaneously.
This is how it’s done.

Changing the narrative for 3 May, World Press Freedom Day 

3 May, World Press Freedom Day, is often used to underline just how bad things have become for journalists and independent media worldwide. A cynic could simply change the date and publish the same story each year: the situation has not improved, the usual suspects are running roughshod over press freedom, threats and challenges are worsening. 2026 is no exception. 

Journalism has a modesty problem – and its killing the profession

This Sunday, as the world celebrates – or calls for – Press Freedom, grassroots activist Mirko Petricevic reckons it’s time we rally the troops, and fly journalism’s flag with collective resolve.