WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Americas recognise innovation and excellence in the media industry across the region. In the 2026 edition, the competition brought together well over 100 initiatives, reflecting the dynamism, creativity and commitment of media organisations to developing products, formats and strategies that respond to the current challenges of the sector. The awards ceremony…
When Dave Jorgenson and Lauren Saks take the stage at the World News Media Congress in Marseille this June, they’ll arrive with a simple but radical proposition: the audiences news organisations have been searching for aren’t lost. They’re just somewhere else – and they’re waiting to be met on their own terms. Their session, News…
The mountainous Austrian region of Vorarlberg is perhaps not where you’d expect to find one of Europe’s more candid and instructive accounts of AI integration in newsrooms. But Lena Leibetseder, Head of Digital Publishing at Russmedia, opened her session at the Frankfurt AI Forum by bringing the company, its environment, and progressive ethos into sharp…
The aorta of the global energy economy has been clogged for more than a month now. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway connecting the Gulf oil producers to global markets — has throttled worldwide energy production and driven up the prices of gasoline, diesel, fertilizer, plastics, and myriad other commodities….
By Martin Schori I’m sitting in a café with a young reporter who is frustrated. She’s a future star, I’d say – original thinker, strong voice, clear sense of what she wants to do with journalism. Management ambitions and everything. She is, in other words, exactly the kind of person media organisations claim to be…
American and Iranian negotiators are reportedly getting closer to a deal that would end the weeks-long war between the nations, following the collapse of in-person talks in Islamabad last weekend. In his announcement Sunday, Vice President JD Vance initially sounded pretty hopeless about the whole thing, as you might expect of a man whose dreams…
After six weeks of fighting, Israel and Lebanon appear to be on the verge of a ceasefire. President Donald Trump announced the 10-day pause, which he said would help “achieve PEACE” between the countries, in a social media post on Thursday. The ceasefire is set to take effect at 5 pm ET. The agreement came…
The White House cannot stop fighting with the pope. On Tuesday night, Vice President JD Vance — who converted to Catholicism in 2019 — accused Pope Leo XIV of not understanding the Church’s stance on war, saying it was “very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”…
President Donald Trump, in between blockading the Strait of Hormuz and posting blasphemous AI images of himself as Jesus, claims he still wants to strike a deal with Iran’s government to end the current conflict, reopen the Strait, and curtail the country’s nuclear program. So far, he’s been unsuccessful — and during his first term…
With more than 50 brands, across news, sports, music and entertainment, PRISA Media is the leading Spanish-language media group in the world. Some of their brands are niche, others are national, and some, like El PAÍS and the sport newspaper As, are global. PRISA operates newspapers, radio stations and podcasts in Spain, Chile, Colombia and…