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,…
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,…