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 […]

WAN-IFRA: Can you tell our readers about how long you have been in the industry? Dr. Klemens Berktold: I have been working in the printing industry since 1998. After holding various positions at Gruner + Jahr and Prinovis, I have […]

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the winners of the South Asian Digital Media Awards 2022, the sixth edition of digital media awards for South Asia. These prestigious awards recognise the outstanding digital media projects delivered by news […]

By Em Kuntze at smartocto The interesting thing about TikTok is that it’s deeply reflective of the GenZ audience that make up 60% of its user base. A recent report says that 40% of Gen Z use TikTok and Instagram […]

The recent Journalism, Media and Technology Trends Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism cited human-centred news as a reason to be cheerful in 2023, giving the nod to The Human Journalism Network, a startup from the […]

While there are numerous success stories around the world with digital subscriptions, in many ways the industry is still grappling with myriad of challenges. Shared best-practice is in demand, which is why WAN-IFRA just published a new report, “Reader Revenue […]

Intensely focused on reader revenue for more than a decade, Fisco credits The Seattle Times’ success in large part to its high quality, local content.  Winner of 11 Pulitzer Prizes, the Times has 176 journalists, which makes it the second […]

By Lucinda Jordaan The spike in killings in 2022 marks a dramatic reversal of the positive trend seen in recent years: from 99 killings in 2018, the number had dropped to an average of 58 killings per year from 2019-2021, […]

Collectively representing over 30 years in jail and a substantial fine, the four charges showed the lengths to which the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte was willing to go to use the legal system to silence critical independent media. […]