On Monday, September 28, more than 1,000 news organisations in 106 countries will mark World News Day by showing how their journalism makes a difference. Ahead of the day, the campaign has published a strong collection of op-eds from veteran journalists, editors and media leaders, including Tina Brown, Lionel Barber and AFP’s Phil Chetwynd. They…
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump rolled out the literal red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday afternoon, greeting his plane with a military band and a jet flyover at Maryland’s Joint…
By Ritu Kapur As India marked eighty years of independence this August, I found myself grappling with the very idea of “press freedom”. Because who exactly is the “press” anymore? Is it an accredited journalist? The creator livestreaming a police crackdown? The village student demanding her right to education on a mobile phone? Press freedom…
When the AI apocalypse becomes regular dinner-table conversation, you know we’ve reached the freakout stage. Rogue AI agents are hacking into competitors. Former Big Tech employees are posting Skynet-style warnings on social media. CEOs are crying for help in ways that have made this once-wonky tech issue a frontline political fight. I still think many…
By Stig Ørskov, CEO, World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) It was thanks to journalists, initially from The Times and Financial Times, that FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s proposal to sell off the World Cup was revealed. Valued at US$20 billion, the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) subsidiary envisaged managing commercial and operational rights for all FIFA…
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. I logged onto Slack this morning to find an incredible and indecipherable message from one of my coworkers. I briefly thought he was having a fever dream or I had forgotten…
Jun Zhang, Chief Technology Officer of the South China Morning Post, recently described his views on the industry’s three most urgent technological challenges, and what news publishers should consider in addressing them. “As a tech guy, I think there are three metrics that are especially alarming,” Zhang told participants at WAN-IFRA’s AI Forum in Kuala…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s campaign to take over Greenland has reached a peaceful end — for now. What happened? Trump signed a new security…
About the publisher: Founded in 2020, 24.hu is one of Hungary’s most-read news sites. An online-only newspaper with a newsroom of about 70, its coverage focuses heavily on politics while also looking at culture, sports, technology and other areas. 24.hu first launched as an ad-supported news portal, but in 2024 it switched to a freemium…
By Joanna Cummings If your readers already know the score, watched the match and spent the evening dissecting it on WhatsApp, what will persuade them to pay you for more? It is a question Laura Williamson, Editor-in-Chief of The Athletic, comes back to repeatedly. “If you’re an Everton fan, just by the nature of fandom…