Mind the gaps: How tomorrow’s newsrooms are bridging today’s divides

Integrated, non-hierarchical, agile and engaging: inaugural Future Newsrooms report outlines glaring disconnects within the fragmented news publishing industry by identifying core shifts – and showing how tomorrow’s newsrooms are evolving to meet them, today.

A crisis of connection, not content: Inside Spilnews’ GenZ model

Information is everywhere, connection isn’t. That’s the gap Spilnews, a Dutch newsroom is building around. Its model puts themes before creators and treats community as a reporting resource, not just a distribution channel.

NYT’s Sulzberger condemns AI giants for ‘brazen theft of intellectual property’

“Some tech leaders will portray my comments today as anti-AI. As defending the old status quo. As yet another ossified institution lashing out at the innovators who are driving the forward march of progress.” – A.G. Sulzberger

2026 WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom acceptance speech

“When journalists are killed, when they are labelled enemies, when they are shut out — it is not just the journalists who suffer. It is everyone who depends on the truth.”

2026 WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom award speech

“We award the Golden Pen of Freedom to an amalgam of journalists who against all the odds, including the killing of colleagues and family members, have persevered in the most grotesque circumstances – to honour the memories of those killed and to ensure the world can never say – we didn’t know.”

With trust on the line, Prisa Media prioritises diligent AI governance over speedy rollouts

When the likes of Prisa Media, the world’s largest Spanish-language media group, deliberately puts the brakes on rolling out its AI development programme, it’s worth knowing why. Olalla Novoa Ojea, Head of AI at Prisa, explained why building governance into the system took priority over speed of rollout; all in the name of trust.

(More) lessons learned from WAN-IFRA’s AI Catalyst accelerator programme

Sceptical of AI evangelists in love with the shiny thing for its own sake? You’re not alone. The good news is that learnings from WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom AI Catalyst accelerator programme make it clear; AI only succeeds when it solves real newsroom problems, and it can only do that when working in partnership with people.

Les Echos grows YouTube audience through consistency, specialisation and storytelling

Les Echos is growing its YouTube audience through a clear editorial focus, a disciplined publishing rhythm, and storytelling designed for retention. The newsroom is building recognition by staying consistent and shaping tightly crafted narratives around its areas of expertise.

New board members take office at WAN-IFRA’s annual meeting in Marseille

WAN-IFRA has announced the re-election of Ladina Heimgartner as President for a second two-year mandate and the election of new members to its Supervisory Board and Executive Board, following the General Assembly of Members held during the 77th World News Media Congress in Marseille today.

WAN-IFRA’s new C-Day creates a global forum for media leadership and future-focused dialogue

Although WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress officially starts today in Marseille at the Palais du Pharo, yesterday a select group of global media leaders met for WAN-IFRA’s first C-Day just a few kilometers down the coast, fittingly at the CMA CGM TANGRAM Excellence Center.