New initiative to shift the needle on women’s leadership in the media

2025-02-21. WIN Guild, WAN-IFRA’s pioneering community of Top Women Editors and Publishers, launches inaugural summit with a bold declaration of intent to drive meaningful and measurable change in the industry.

Germany’s Boxit bets on last-mile delivery as publishers seek new revenue

2025-02-20. Bastian Schweiger, Managing Director of Boxit, shares how publishers can revamp their logistics, explore new market potential, and learn from successful transformations in the industry.

Inside Times Internet’s AI-first strategy: Paywalls, personalisation, productivity

2025-02-19. “AI isn’t just a tool – it’s a fundamental shift in how we operate. It’s allowing us to predict trends, optimise workflows, and personalise user experiences at a scale that was unimaginable before,” says Puneet Gupt, COO, Times Internet.

WAN-IFRA launches South Asia Newsroom AI Catalyst accelerator programme

2025-02-17. WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, has launched the South Asia Newsroom AI Catalyst, an intensive accelerator programme in partnership with OpenAI, to fast-track artificial intelligence adoption in newsrooms.

‘For You’ – The Irish Times goes audience-centric, surfs data overload and gets insights from staff

2025-02-14. Through an initiative aimed primarily at younger female readers, The Irish Times has redefined its focus on key demographics, combining data-driven insights with qualitative feedback to create content that resonates with its readers’ lives and priorities.

Kim Svendsen appointed WAN-IFRA Membership Director

2025-02-07. Kim Svendsen has held various leadership positions, most recently at Stibo DX, a supplier of systems and services to global media groups. His extensive background in media technology and deep understanding of the global news media ecosystem make him uniquely positioned to lead WAN-IFRA’s membership initiatives.

Countering the chaos: a rallying call for collaboration to offset news media funding crisis

2025-02-07. Calls for mobilisation and collaboration, amid the US funding freeze, are compounded by chaos and the alarmingly persecutory rhetoric of a government intent on dismantling the media development ecosystem.

The path to journalism’s best future depends on a word most people hate: politics

2025-02-07. In 2024, about half the world’s population voted on the future of roughly one-third of the globe’s nations. Yet, politics disgusts most people. Journalists know this. It’s why news fatigue spreads like the coronavirus.

You have to pay attention to what young readers want to read – Q&A with Amedia’s Janne Rygh

2025-02-05. “We did a lot of analysis and started various projects,” says Amedia’s Janne Rygh of the Norwegian publishing house’s efforts to attract young readers. “One thing we found out is that the age of the people we write about matters. When we feature people in their 20s, it attracts readers of that age, too.”

Wanted: keyboard volunteers to Spotlight Press Freedom

2025-02-05. Grassroots media advocacy group Ink-stained Wretches is recruiting news warriors to devote 30 minutes to beating back ongoing existential threats and building a culture of appreciation for quality journalism.