In 2014, Toyosi Ogunseye, the first woman editor of Sunday Punch in Nigeria, was honoured by Women in News, receiving its first Women in News  Leadership Award for Africa. The same year, Ogunseye became a Mandela Washington Fellow at the […]

“Over the past two years, the average age of our digital subscribers has decreased from 45 to 38,” Patrick Hamsch, Deputy Head of Media at Sweden’s NWT Media told participants at WAN-IFRA’s recent World News Media Congress in Taipei. Furthermore, […]

About five years ago, podcasting was still relatively novel in Africa. In 2019, only 22% of South Africans had heard of podcasting, according to an Edison Research study; this, compared to 77% of US citizens at the time. And a […]

By Sophia Boysen, BotTalk As the traditional publishing industry embraces digitisation and seeks innovative ways to engage readers, text-to-speech (TTS) and AI voice cloning offer a plethora of advantages that promise to revolutionise the reading experience and open new possibilities […]

IGUALAR OPORTUNIDADES Para brindar apoyo a las mujeres periodistas de la región y en la búsqueda de igualar oportunidades WAN-IFRA, en alianza con Google News Initiative (GNI), lanzó en 2022 la primera edición de WIN Mujeres en las Noticias LATAM, […]

With 80 million monthly unique users, Indonesia’s IDN Media has become the country’s most valuable news source for young audiences by embracing inclusiveness and maximising revenue opportunities, said IDN Media Founder and CEO Winston Utomo, during our World News Media […]

WAN-IFRA members can download the report for free here (if you need a username and password, please contact: customerservice@wan-ifra.org). Non-members can purchase the report by contacting the same email address. For a profession that portends to frown upon clichés, we […]

Pia Rehnquist, editorial director at Bonnier News Local, described the philosophy that the Swedish news publisher has used to attract 2.2 million subscribers during WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Taipei recently. “Don’t lose your self-confidence, but instead, find a […]

By Em Kuntze, smartocto One day, shortly after the new year in 2021, a Dutch fisherman hauled in his catch somewhere off the coast of the Netherlands. Among the usual species of fish, he spotted an unfamiliar specimen. This being […]

‘We need to work on changing attitudes towards diversity and inclusion so that it’s not just about ticking the boxes, but trying to find better ways of working, better ways of storytelling and changing the culture in our organisation. That […]