WAN-IFRA has released a new special report, Carbon Audit: Call to Action – Managing Emissions in Newspaper Printing Plants, aimed at helping newspaper printing facilities better understand, measure and manage their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As climate change continues to reshape economies, industries and societies worldwide, the report highlights the growing importance of environmental accountability…
“We are focusing on signature journalism. We are focusing on our brands. We are focusing on customer value. And that’s how we think we can build a sustainable business model in this new era where AI and creators are reshaping the media industry,” Matthijs van de Peppel, of Mediahuis, Netherlands, told World News Media Congress…
For 36 years, the question of who ultimately ruled Iran had one answer: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has an elected president and legislature, that power is subordinate to the religious supreme leader, who has the last say over all foreign and domestic policies and is the commander in chief of Iran’s conventional…
General Muhoozi is the Sandhurst-trained Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) for the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). He is also the 52-year-old son of Uganda’s 82-year-old President Yoweri Museveni. Muhoozi has not shied away from stating that he intends to be president after his father. Museveni has been at the apex of Ugandan politics since…
As temperatures blew past 100°F in cities across Europe last week, it was difficult to tell what was generating more hot air: the weather or the discourse around the right way to endure it. On the western side of the Atlantic, the answer was almost uniformly obvious: air conditioning. Just around 20 percent of European…
The French publisher transformed Ouest-France, the country’s biggest daily newspaper by circulation, into one of France’s leading online news platforms before expanding into video and television. Founded 80 years ago, the group today comprises more than 100 media brands, employs over 5,000 people, including 1,200 journalists, and reaches 28 million readers every month. It is…
Is the news industry “an interesting sector to invest in”? A somewhat surprising opinion perhaps, but that’s Joseph Oughourlian’s view. For the past five years, Oughourlian has been the Chairman of the PRISA Group, a Spanish conglomerate operating leading media and education brands across Europe and Latin America. Speaking at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress…
In the early hours of Sunday, 28th June, Ugandan military personnel raided the premises of Nation Media Group-owned media houses in Kampala, forcing television and radio broadcasts off the air and shuttering print titles. Journalists and media leaders are being targeted online as the military increases its pressure on independent media across the country. WAN-IFRA…
Speaking at our recent Digital Media India Conference in New Delhi, Vertika Kanaujia, who leads editorial operations at Financial Express Digital, traced how newsrooms arrived at this point, citing a recent WAN-IFRA and FT Strategies study as a reference point for the scale of the problem. From mass media to the page view Kanaujia traced…
Since its founding in 2009, Girls Who Print has grown into the world’s largest professional network for women in print, packaging, publishing, and graphic communications, with more than 12,000 members worldwide. Now operating as a woman-owned non-profit, the organisation continues to expand its mission of helping women learn, grow, and lead through education, mentorship, networking,…