For Goli Sheikholeslami, CEO of Politico, that is not a threat, but an opening. “Even amid the disruption AI creates, this is a moment filled with opportunity for Politico,” she said. She identified three key opportunities: Original and trusted journalism is becoming more valuable, not less. In an agentic world, news organisations can expand to…
As the world waits to see if President Donald Trump will give his final approval to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and, perhaps, finally bring the 2026 US-Iran conflict to a close, it’s already clear that one of the more surprising developments of the conflict has been the prominent role of Pakistan…
“I want to start with a question that I get a lot, which is: are audiences actually pivoting to video?” Speaking at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Marseille, Solana Pyne, Video Director at The New York Times, lifted the curtain on how the news organisation currently approaches video production and distribution. But before delving into…
Since the Iran war led to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, about 20 percent of global oil supply has been choked off, sending prices sky high, especially for jet fuel. So far, the war may already be costing the airline industry an additional $15 billion. Airlines have responded by raising ticket prices, charging…
At some point on Monday night, as Anna Babinets sat in Marseille preparing for a panel session at the World News Media Congress, bombs were falling across Ukraine. By morning, the apartment her news team uses had been destroyed. Her phone lit up as her plans to attend the morning sessions collapsed. ”I started calling…
The announcement marks the most significant moment in the coalition’s growth since its public launch at the end of February, and signals that publisher-led action on AI is consolidating into a coordinated, international movement. SPUR is working to build a fair and transparent, well-functioning, AI licensing market for trusted journalism. As a strategic partner, WAN-IFRA…
Jessica Davis, Vice President of AI Product at USA Today, came with a practical framework, and a case study from her own newsroom. Her argument is straightforward: evaluations – not goodwill or a journalist’s thumbs up – are the foundation any newsroom needs before it can trust AI at scale. Davis was speaking at our…
That structural change ranges from building sustainable revenue and getting paid in the AI ecosystem, to redesigning newsrooms for a fundamentally different production model. Drawing on global cases across five chapters, Juan Senor presented the strategic moves that matter most right now, focused primarily on AI’s impact on publishers. WAN-IFRA and FIPP members can download…
The Hindu has a discovery problem. Like many long-established publishers now operating in crowded digital markets, the 148-year-old Indian news organisation produces far more journalism than most readers will ever encounter. More than 600 stories are published across its titles every day, yet even its most engaged users typically see only a fraction of that…
As global concern about an Ebola outbreak in central Africa grows, hundreds of Kenyans have taken to the streets to protest a plan by the Trump administration to send American citizens who have been exposed to the virus to Kenya, rather than bringing them back to the US. Two people have been shot and killed…