WAN-IFRA unveils the Digital Media Awards Americas 2024 winners.

2024-04-11. WAN-IFRA announced the 2024 Digital Media Americas Awards winners in Panama City during its annual Digital Media LATAM conference. More than 140 projects of 69 media companies from 17 different countries in North America, Central America and South America participated, highlighting topics such as diversity, climate change, the problem of drug trafficking, innovation and the elections, and latent concerns in the region.

Digital Media Awards: A salute to pioneering reader revenue initiatives across regions

2024-04-10. WAN-IFRA recently announced the regional winners for our latest round of Digital Media Awards in Africa, the Americas and Europe. And last month, we presented the trophies to our winners in South Asia during the Digital Media India event.

drupa 2024: Global printing industry meets again in Düsseldorf

2024-04-10. After a lengthy interruption, the international trade fair, drupa, will once again take place at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, from 28 May to 7 June. This year, the focus will be on sustainability and digitalisation.

Tackling print decline and building a path to sustainability: Lessons from KG Media

2024-04-09. Andy Budiman, CEO of KG Media, shares insights from the Indonesian media group’s journey to adapt its business model and build a sustainable future for its media brands, including its flagship publication Kompas, Indonesia’s largest newspaper.

Best practices for printers to navigate new EU environmental regulations

2024-04-08. Environmental regulations in Europe have compelled printing companies to disclose their carbon impact on the environment within their annual reports. Dr. Michael Has, Partner at Monopteros GmbH in Germany, shares insights to help companies in navigating ESG reporting during a webinar hosted by the World Printers Forum.

Lessons from newsrooms who have, and are, prepping for ‘AI Elections’

2024-04-05. THE Election Year. The Year of AI elections. With over 60 countries heading to the polls this year, the world may look a little – or a lot – different by the end of 2024. How are newsrooms managing coverage and the significant challenge to sort fact from fiction?

‘I get quite irritated when people say that the news or journalism is dying,’ News24’s Adriaan Basson

2024-04-05. As South Africans gear up for the seventh democratic elections in 30 years on 29 May, Adriaan Basson, editor-in-chief of one of the country’s largest newsrooms, shares his deepest concerns, in our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR interview.

Indian news executives share advice for navigating turbulent times

2024-04-05. With rapid developments around AI, the upcoming demise of third-party cookies, and audiences’ evolving content consumption habits, it is crucial for publishers to adopt a more agile mindset: “Gone are the days when you could create a five-year plan, three-year plan, one-year plan… Now it’s a one-quarter and one-month plan.”

Bangladesh’s Daily Star finds success with online careers course platform

2024-04-04. Last September, The Daily Star in Bangladesh launched Keeron, an online learning platform. It provides the news publisher with a potentially massive new audience and revenue stream, seamlessly integrating with many of the publishing company’s existing departments.

ACOS Alliance and WAN-IFRA launch the Editor Safety Hub

2024-04-04. The Hub launches with ‘The Fundamentals of Safe Commissioning’, a self-paced training course that equips editors with the skills they need to safely commission journalistic work, support the safety of freelancers they work with, and embed a culture of safety within their everyday practice.