WAN-IFRA Unveils ‘AI Unlocked’ Programme to Drive Media Innovation, Creativity and Sustainability.

2024-02-21. WAN-IFRA announced the launch of “AI Unlocked.” The programme and forum is tailored for all news media publishers interested in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on their organisation. Through AI Unlocked, media professionals will learn, discuss, experiment with, and define ways to use AI in their business. The initiative is open to news publishers around the globe.

World Printers Summit comes to Austria this year

2024-02-20. The two-day global summit, hosted by the World Printers Forum, is scheduled to take place from 8-9 October 2024 in Vienna, Austria at Palais Niederösterreich.

Interview: Why focusing on audiences helps newsroom transformation succeed

2024-02-15. Alexandra Borchardt and Lyndsey Jones, coaches in WAN-IFRA’s Table Stakes Europe programme, discuss how paying close attention to the needs and interests of specific audience groups can help ensure that transformation projects stay on track and on target.

Tributes pour in for ‘Dean of Sudanese press’ and Golden Pen Laureate Mahjoub Mohammed Saleh

2024-02-15. The African media fraternity is mourning the passing of award-winning, veteran Sudanese journalist and 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom recipient Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh, who died in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, aged 96.

Innovate Local: Reaching young readers – How Stavanger Aftenblad covers junior football like it’s the Champions League

2024-02-12. Elin Stueland, Project Lead AI at Schibsted’s Norwegian regional title Stavanger Aftenblad explains how the publisher is attracting young readers through their reader promise of covering local football like it’s the Champions League.

Death, exhaustion and suspicion: AFP journalists on the horrors of Gaza

2024-02-12. Every day since October 7, AFP’s team of journalists in Gaza have been risking their lives to cover a war that has shaken the world. They have all had to flee their homes, working without respite in the shadow of death in a territory they are not allowed to leave.

‘There’s no such thing as a deadline’ – investigative veteran David Walmsley on fostering emerging talent in the newsroom

2024-02-09. The Globe and Mail’s Editor in Chief has many stories to tell, none more compelling than his 30-year investigation into the final flight of Zulu Delta 576 – and how it continues to impact his career, and newsroom, today.

Documented: redefining community service journalism for the mobile age

2024-02-09. Award-winning non-profit news site Documented has taken audience engagement to the next level, and is now covering three New York immigrant communities via social media with news, investigations and resource guides. It’s just journalism, they say…

WEXFO: The Global Free Speech Recession – and How to Fight It?

2024-02-08. High-profile speakers have joined the programme of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO) in Lillehammer, a city renowned for its links to literature and writers at risk

How Germany’s SV Zeitungsdruck is documenting its carbon footprint

2024-02-08. Christoph Migotsch, Sustainability Manager and Head of Maintenance and Procurement at SV Zeitungsdruck GmbH, shares how the company documented all its direct and indirect emissions for corporate carbon footprint calculations.