Despite the US and Iran exchanging fire and new missile attacks aimed at the United Arab Emirates this week, the Trump administration maintains that the ceasefire that began in early April is still in effect. Iran’s attacks on commercial and US Navy ships are still “all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at…
Founded in 1949, dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) is a joint venture of about 170 German media companies with the mission to provide reliable information for media outlets, companies and organisations to use in their journalistic work. dpa’s work has historically fallen into two key areas, said Yannick Franke, the press agency’s AI Team Lead, speaking at…
From 3-5 May, politicians from across Europe have gathered in Copenhagen for the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments (EUSC), hosted by The Danish Parliament. WAN-IFRA CEO Stig Ørskov was invited to speak in a session focused on “Democratic Resilience in Times of Change,” exploring how parliaments can respond to misinformation, foreign interference and…
“I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that,” President Donald Trump told reporters this week after a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s so many people being killed, it’s so ridiculous.” Putin has proposed “little” ceasefires before, but more than four years since its full-scale invasion, he…
WAN-IFRA is proud to announce the European winners of the Digital Media Awards. The laureate projects reveal a continued shift in the industry, where AI is no longer just an editorial experiment but also a driver of revenue growth, hyper-personalisation, and high-value B2B opportunities. They also highlight the growing importance of engaging audiences as active…
Across the Middle East and its diaspora, this year’s winning projects reflect journalism shaped by pressure, constraint and complexity. A common thread runs among the laureates: the meaningful use of audience participation, where citizen-generated content is not only collected but verified, structured and turned into editorial output. Technology is applied with purpose, responding to real…
WAN-IFRA is proud to congratulate the esteemed winners of this year’s 11th edition of the Digital Media Africa Awards. We commend the news media organisations across Africa for their creativity and dedication shown in these groundbreaking projects. Our sincere appreciation to the publishers who shared their work, as well as our distinguished jury for their…
Newsroom CMS suppliers say AI is no longer being treated as an experimental add-on, but as a structural layer within editorial workflows. One message was clear throughout the discussion: AI delivers value only when it is embedded directly into newsroom processes, not when it exists as a separate toolset. This means that when AI is…
WAN-IFRA is delving deeper into newsrooms’ multimedia capabilities and conducting a global survey of top media executives to help inform a report (supported by base Media Cloud) to be published this summer. 80% of publishers told us in our World Press Trends survey and report this year that video and audio is one of the…
This May, UNESCO World Press Freedom Day and RightsCon were supposed to come together in Zambia against a backdrop of deep anxiety about the future of journalism and about whether anything resembling a shared digital public space can survive the next decade. Puzzlingly, or perhaps tellingly, the 5,000-people conference about human rights and freedom of…