For a long time, many news publishers have believed scale was the key to a successful media business model. That was true in the past as free print papers or those with low single-copy prices helped publishers deliver large readerships […]

Disinformation law further muzzles dissent – and critical reporting The Turkish government recently hosted a series of panel discussions in New York and Washington DC, to emphasise the importance of international solidarity and fighting disinformation in the wake of natural […]

Prothom Alo is the largest newspaper in Bangladesh, centred around one of the most spoken languages in the world ­– Bengali, with a daily print readership of 5 million. Prothom Alo Digital is a separate entity from the newspaper and […]

The day started out relatively normal, though there were some fears among us. In the days earlier, several provinces of Afghanistan had fallen into the hands of the Taliban, but no one thought the government would fall. I would start […]

This article is authored by Madeleine White. It was first published by The Audiencers on May 5, 2023. Gen Z are interested in news, but you have to present it in the places where they are” – LADbible Group on […]

Six years later, at our latest DME conference, Head of Product Ole Werring shared how even Amedia, a beacon of inspiration for subs and data strategy in the industry, stumbles sometimes but eventually rights the ship. In this case, it […]

Yet, it can be hard to keep up as streaming platforms become increasingly more expensive and busy schedules are jam-packed with one game tournament after the other. As a result, many sports enthusiasts turn to play-by-play coverage – interactive, written […]

The initiative is a membership programme that seeks to defend investigative reporting organisations and news media around the world from legal threats meant to silence critical voices. It aims to reduce the risk of lawsuits through training, while at the […]

Russia may be the most dramatic example. When  COVID arrived there, Vladimir Putin hid. He reportedly holed himself up in his secret lakeside mansion, emerging briefly in a yellow hazmat suit to greet doctors on the front lines. Throughout the […]

WAN-IFRA’s latest World Press Trends Outlook report features data collected on specific incidents of media freedom violations. In this extract from the full report, adapted for World Press Freedom Day, we see a broad split, echoed in our data, between […]