Speech of Martha Ramos, World Editors Forum President, for the occasion of the award of the 2023 WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom to Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi. Taipei, Taiwan, 28th June 2023 Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, friends. A […]

Since 1961, WAN-IFRA has presented the Golden Pen of Freedom – an award that recognises outstanding action, in writing or deed, of an individual, group or institution in the cause of press freedom.  The inaugural award went to Turkish journalist, […]

By Colette Davidson On 13 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly wearing her veil improperly. She was taken into police custody and fell into a coma under suspicious circumstances. Three days […]

The Committee to Protect Journalists has a comprehensive archive of articles on the many different incidents of media oppression in Iran. A scroll through pages of arresting headlines tells a chilling story: Iranian authorities are ruthless and relentless in their […]

This article, authored by Lindsey Jones, was first published by Women in News AI: how freaked out should we be?  AI could replace 300 million jobs.  Nearly 50 news websites are AI-generated.  Godfather of AI quits Google and warns of […]

The 9th annual WIN Editorial Leadership Awards recognise the exemplary contribution of an editor to her newsroom, and under her leadership, her media organisation’s contribution to society. The 2023 Laureates were honoured on the opening day of WAN-IFRA’s World News […]

News avoidance is high, and trust in news is low. The much-anticipated release of the latest Reuters Oxford Digital News Report 2023 confirms this trend – and is replete with averages and percentages to back it up. But beyond the […]

About five years ago, Marium Chaudhry, an executive producer at Pakistan’s top news channel, decided to create a start-up aimed at younger people. Her idea for this came about during Pakistan’s 2018 election cycle, when Chaudhry discovered that while the […]

On the right track  1) It turns out publishers not only appreciate the importance of the post-millennial audience, but are also reaching it. Digiday and Arc XP surveyed 116 publishers and 114 Gen Z and young millennial consumers to see […]

‘This decision sets a dangerous precedent for countries all over the world who will use this decision to justify financial and other barriers to media scrutiny of the political process.’ – Foreign Press Association Nearly 300 newsrooms have supported an […]