Younger audiences are the key to the future success of the news industry, but reaching them is a major challenge for many traditional, legacy publishers. During a World News Day panel session at our World News Publishing Congress in Zaragoza, […]

Kaplan, who was among those representing 30 member organisations that founded the Network in 2003, became its first full-time executive director in February 2012. In January he announced his retirement, effective from September 2023. WAN-IFRA sought his insights on the […]

“A lot of lessons have been learned from three years of covering a global pandemic. It is essential that we take those lessons and build on them. One clear development is that misinformation and disinformation now have an even greater […]

During 2022, a group of European news publishers transformed their internal workflows, jump-started their digital transformation, and created new audiences-first editorial products as part of their participation in Table Stakes Europe, a WAN-IFRA programme in partnership with Google News Initiative. Our […]

In February 2022, life for millions of Ukrainians took a dark turn. Russian tanks rolled in, shattering the peace and unleashing new horrors. Many Ukrainian journalists were silenced – both literally and figuratively. They needed indestructible reserves to tell the […]

The Polish-Belarusian correspondent was arrested in March 2021 following a crackdown against opposition critics by the Belarussian President, Alexander Lukashenko that began the previous year. Mr Poczobut had reportedly refused to leave the country after the suppression of mass protests, […]

By FERNANDO BELZUNCE, Editor in Chief, Vocento, Spain This article was first published in June 2022.   It will be a smooth turnaround. Joe Kahn (Boston, 1964), the journalist who has consolidated the full-scale digital transformation of The New York […]

February 1 was a date to celebrate for women in business everywhere. It happened to be the day that water group Severn Trent became the first large UK quoted company to be led by an all-female team by appointing Helen […]

The project was spearheaded by Esther Ng, Chief Content Officer for the Star Malaysia, spurred on by her role as chair of the World Editors Forum Asia Chapter. Ng led the initiative to record the bias that exists in different […]

Our new report, “Building and engaging specific audiences,” is a collection of winning engagement strategies that 15 news publishers used when creating new editorial products for specific audience categories.  The majority of the report’s content is based on the achievements […]