How The Atlantic keeps subscribers – without cutting prices

2025-05-26. Since launching its paywall in 2019, The Atlantic has built a subscription business anchored in loyal, long-term readers. With retention over 70% and steady growth, its success stems from an annual-only model, strong product engagement, and focusing on subscriber habits rather than churn.

World’s press concerned by foreign funding bill that threatens press freedom in Hungary

2025-05-23. WAN-IFRA has written to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressing concern over a proposed new bill before parliament that calls for increased powers for the Sovereignty Protection Office that would negatively impact press freedom in the country. 

Ouest-France bets on TV to diversify revenue streams

2025-05-22. Sipa Ouest-France, one of France’s largest news media groups, is making a move into the television and streaming market with the launch of a channel called Novo 19, planned for September. This decision is part of the company’s effort to expand beyond its traditional print and digital platforms and capitalise on the growing demand for video content.

Amedia grants 400,000 young people free access to its newspapers

2025-05-21. All Norwegians aged 15 to 20 will be given free digital access to over 100 newspapers through Amedia’s new national initiative.

WAN-IFRA launches Media Literacy Policy and project with support from UNESCO

2025-05-21. The project involves several actions including: the integration of Media Literacy in the WAN-IFRA Policies, a campaign to celebrate Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week, and the development of trainings for news executives to incorporate literacy in their work.

From audience to community: High-engagement strategies from the FT and The City

2025-05-21. The rising importance of reader revenue and the decline in referrals from social and search have led publishers to deepen their relationships with their audiences. Here’s how two diverse news publishers are responding.

How Mediahuis is rebuilding journalism with, not just for, Gen Z

2025-05-21. Gen Z is rewriting the rules of media engagement – rejecting condescension and calling for journalism that feels real. The message is clear: They want more than access; they want relevance, belonging, and content that speaks to them.

Latin America: Press Freedom Struggles Under Increasing Authoritarianism and Financial Pressures

2025-05-20. Increasing Authoritarianism and Financial Pressures represent the dual threat that now defines journalism’s reality across the Americas. These are not parallel challenges; they are deeply interconnected. Political hostility and economic precarity are converging, weakening the role of the press as a pillar of democracy

Rainer Esser: Die Zeit riding the wave of its ‘dolphin culture’

2025-05-20. As CEO of the German weekly since 1999, Dr. Rainer Esser has had a front-row seat to the radical evolution of the news industry over the past couple of decades. At our Congress, he shared the approach that has helped the news brand quadruple its revenues and achieve long-term sustainability.

Resilience is not just a belief at Agora – it’s a strategy

2025-05-20. During a panel discussion at our recent Congress in Krakow, moderator Lucy Küng asked the group of CEOs on stage, “What is the one truth you wish people had told you before you became CEO?” Bartosz Hojka, CEO of Agora in Poland, was up first: “That I’m not going to be running a media company, but a crisis management company with a newsroom attached.”