WAN-IFRA unveils initiative to help journalists and creators reach new audiences

2025-11-05. The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today announced the launch of its Future Audiences Initiative, a three-pillared global programme designed not only for established news organisations but equally for independent news creators, digital-native publishers, and emerging media voices who today lack access to professional networks and representation.

A small Norwegian newsroom punches above its weight with a data-driven, human-centred AI strategy

2025-11-04. iTromsø, a 25-reporter newsroom in northern Norway, is showing how a small local publisher can produce original, locally relevant data stories using self-developed AI tools. Its owner, Polaris Media, has built a structure that lets successful, bottom-up innovations scale across the organisation.

India’s digital media leaders on bridging print and digital: ‘We are guardians of trust as much as our print colleagues are’

2025-11-04. Print and digital now play complementary roles, with newsrooms focused on building loyalty, speed with accuracy, and mastering AI to protect trust. India’s digital-media leaders discuss strategies like subscription bundles, ‘velocity journalism’ and transparent AI use to safeguard credibility.

Journalism in an Age of Impunity

2025-10-31. Chat GBV: Raising Awareness on AI-facilitated Gender-Based Violence Against Women Journalists, is UNESCO’s theme for this year’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists – reflecting an acceleration in the number, type and placement of threats and attacks against journalists worldwide – and the increasing lack of accountability for them.

End Impunity: The US is attacking the public’s right to know

2025-10-31. The public’s right to know is in serious jeopardy in the United States. The country that once proudly lauded its commitment to free expression and a free press has rapidly adopted the behavior of autocrats to stifle reporting it does not like, writes Jodie Ginsberg.

End Impunity: Silence is Complicity

2025-10-31. It is the largest massacre of journalists in human history: 253 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed Since October 2023. Yet these killings remain mostly unacknowledged and unpunished and by those responsible – a stark example of the impunity that allows this to continue, writes Dima Khatib.

End Impunity: Europe’s journalists are under attack – and their abusers walk free

2025-10-31. The pattern is clear: coordinated waves of digital abuse, aimed mainly at women and minority journalists, with almost total impunity for the perpetrators, writes Peter Vandermeersch.

‘Masters of our own fate’: Media leaders embrace an AI future on their own terms

2025-10-30. At WAN-IFRA’s Paris AI Forum this week, optimism defined the conversations. Rather than yielding to disruption, news executives and technologists spoke of agency, collaboration and a human-centered vision for the future of journalism.

Publishers roll out bundle initiatives to boost digital subscriptions

2025-10-28. The past few weeks have seen a number of bundled digital subscription package plans announced by publishers in several parts of the world.

‘The goal is clear: Make journalism stronger, more relevant, and more resilient.’ – Peter Vandermeersch

2025-10-17. The former MediaHuis CEO shares insights into his new role as inaugural Fellow, Journalism and Society – and offers sage advice for journalists, editors and newsrooms working through a period of immense change.