By Julia Barcelon “If publishers still have strong journalism, strong brands, and strong audiences, why does advertising revenue still feel so hard to win?” That was the question raised by Anson Mok, the Head of Data Development at United Daily News Group, during WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Asia conference in Manila as he reflected on the…
Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with Xi Jinping is likely to be dominated and somewhat overshadowed by the ongoing conflict in Iran. In recent months, US attention and military resources have been shifted from Asia to the Middle East, where the war has proven longer and more difficult than anticipated. At the same time, the administration…
By Marchel Espina “We’re in an age of eternal disruption,” Glenda Gloria, told participants at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference in Manila, Philippines, and noted the January traffic spike on their website that later turned out to be ghost traffic from bots infiltrating Google Analytics. The IP clusters were traced in Lanzhou, China and…
“When we try to write an article, we pack all angles in it. That becomes very difficult for us to identify user needs,” said Tan Lee Chin, Digital Product Editor, SPH Media. The newsroom used a custom GPT model developed with SPH Media’s data scientists to analyse a month’s worth of editorial output – 6,006…
It’s been four months since the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the US to stand trial. His vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, is now in charge, but the Trump administration has been largely silent on what comes next for the country. In the meantime, Missy Ryan, a staff writer at the…
“I bring some bad news and good news,” said Rosalia Lloret, Senior Advisor to the President, elDiario.es. The bad news, she added, is that “the AI platform economy is shaking to its core” and the media industry is under sustained pressure. At our recent Digital Media Asia conference in Manila, across the sector, she said,…
Despite the US and Iran exchanging fire and new missile attacks aimed at the United Arab Emirates this week, the Trump administration maintains that the ceasefire that began in early April is still in effect. Iran’s attacks on commercial and US Navy ships are still “all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at…
Founded in 1949, dpa (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) is a joint venture of about 170 German media companies with the mission to provide reliable information for media outlets, companies and organisations to use in their journalistic work. dpa’s work has historically fallen into two key areas, said Yannick Franke, the press agency’s AI Team Lead, speaking at…
From 3-5 May, politicians from across Europe have gathered in Copenhagen for the Conference of Speakers of the EU Parliaments (EUSC), hosted by The Danish Parliament. WAN-IFRA CEO Stig Ørskov was invited to speak in a session focused on “Democratic Resilience in Times of Change,” exploring how parliaments can respond to misinformation, foreign interference and…
“I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that,” President Donald Trump told reporters this week after a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s so many people being killed, it’s so ridiculous.” Putin has proposed “little” ceasefires before, but more than four years since its full-scale invasion, he…