Why impact reports are now essential to journalism’s business model

In an era of reader fatigue and shrinking revenues, even commercial newsrooms are recognising they have to show their real value, deepen trust, and convert engagement into financial support.

‘Journalism done with, not just for, the audience:’ Lessons from Straits Times

Editor Jaime Ho explains how community-driven reporting builds trust, delivers impact and keeps legacy media relevant in a fast-changing world.

From survival to growth: how Ukranian newsrooms are bolstered with structured support

Four years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, three newsrooms share the most significant changes they experienced, thanks to institutional support from the Stronger Together programme – now entering its second year.

Asahi Shimbun’s digital scoring system helps journalists rethink audiences and content

Like many publishers, a major challenge for Japan’s Asahi Shimbun today is not simply reaching audiences online, but building long-term trust and engagement with readers. As part of this, the publisher has developed Asa-Digi Score, a digital scoring system designed to understand reader satisfaction by measuring how stories are read rather than how often they are clicked.

WAN-IFRA denounces systemic legal targeting of Vanguardia in Mexico

The Saltillo, Coahuila-based news organisation has withstood a decade of intensifying legal harassment, culminating in the falsified arrest of its top executive in what has been described as a coordinated attempt to kidnap and extort.

A decade on, Senner Druckhaus’ DCOS-retrofitted Geoman still delivers

In 2015, Germany’s Senner Druckhaus retrofitted a Manroland Geoman press. Ten years later, the press is still running daily, and doing work it was never designed to do.

From user needs to digital innovation: 5 lessons from leading Danish publishers

WAN-IFRA’s latest Newsroom Summit Study Tour revealed how several of Denmark’s top media companies are reshaping their journalism with audience-first thinking, cultural transformation, and strategic deployment of AI.

The qualities a modern journalist needs in the AI era

What are the skills required of journalists? While journalism shares some fundamental traits across the industry, the day-to-day work can look very different from one outlet to another. Sometimes, also in the same publication, when comparing verticals.

Q&A with Lena K Samuelsson: ‘Who else will take the fight for journalism, if not us?’

For decades, Lena K Samuelsson not only had a front-row seat to witness Schibsted’s constant drive to change and transform its business and journalism, she also played a crucial leadership role in shaping and executing the Nordic group’s strategy. Last week WAN-IFRA announced she will join the organisation as Executive Strategic Advisor, helping to shape the organisation’s strategy and that of its members. Here is our conversation with her about this new role.

Fragile, eroded: ‘Global press freedom needs robust, varied survival strategies’

The latest World Press Trends Outlook reveals a critical state of affairs, made even grimmer by the White House’s attacks on the press, last week’s FBI raid of a Washington Post journalist’s home, and this week’s killing of three Egyptian journalists in Gaza. How to safeguard press freedom?