The Digital Media Awards South Asia 2026 ceremony also took place during the event, and The Hindu Group was named Champion Publisher of the Year. AI, audience growth and new business models shape Day 1 The conference opened with a keynote by Stig Ørskov, CEO of WAN-IFRA, who outlined five transformations shaping the future of…
By David Walmsley and Stig Ørskov “Explain why journalism matters.” That’s one of the challenges A.G. Sulzberger, Chairman and Publisher of The New York Times, put to our industry earlier this month in his powerful opening keynote at the World News Media Congress in Marseille. His message was clear: at a time when trust is fragile and information…
It hasn’t been a good season for the opinion page. AI-generated columns, fake bylines, hallucinated quotes – the problems facing publishers and editors are real and accelerating. What we know This week, Deutsche Welle reported on two high profile German news outlets which were recently forced to delete published opinion pieces that made undisclosed use…
One of President Donald Trump’s core political positions has always been that US allies should pay more for the benefits they receive from US military power. This has included demanding that South Korea and Japan pay more for the presence of US troops on their soil, and suggesting that the US would only honor its…
For the 21st century newsroom, change is a constant. Publishers have pivoted, innovated, adopted and adapted to a barrage of threats and challenges over the past three decades. In this interview by Chloe Tsang for the Future Newsrooms Study, Tagesspiegel editor-in-chief Christian Tretbar explains how the German news organisation is meeting core challenges head on,…
By Bihag Karnani As a senior product manager at Google, I oversee the development of Reader Revenue Manager – a digital subscription service designed specifically for media companies. On average, I meet with approximately 50 to 70 publishers throughout the course of a year. They come from a variety of backgrounds – local dailies, national…
Speaking at our ongoing Digital Media India conference in New Delhi, Kasbekar framed this as a deliberate departure from her years in broadcast. She was candid that the strategy had not been met with confidence from outside the organisation. Brut was told, more than once, that betting entirely on social platforms, without owned infrastructure to…
“One of the scariest things that I saw was the massive gap between what leaders think we’re doing and how employees are receiving it,” Barrett said during the World News Media Congress in Marseille. Barrett, who has been leading AI transformation efforts at Reuters, was recently named Head of Product. She pointed to research from…
Speaking at our ongoing Digital Media India Conference in New Delhi, Sekhri drew on his 14 years running Newslaundry, which he co-founded in 2012. What works, he said, isn’t fixed – it shifts by market, and by moment. Purity of message, not mixed revenue Sekhri said the first lesson from his experience is that subscriptions…
In the last few years, there has been a notable shift in the state propaganda coming out of North Korea. A young girl — maybe 13 or so — has become a fixture at most major state events. Before an intercontinental ballistic missile launch, she can be seen side by side with her father, North…