WAN-IFRA is delighted with the high level of participation in this new edition of the awards and congratulates the award winners for their commitment to innovation in the region. This year’s announcements come with a few changes, including the new category, “Best Social Impact Project”, one of the three most popular categories in 2025. The…
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are already wreaking economic chaos in the US and abroad. On Wednesday, he announced a minimum 10 percent tariff on almost all imports, with dozens of countries facing even higher rates. The stock market plunged in response when trading opened on Thursday, with the S&P 500 down more than 4 percent…
A new survey of journalists across Europe reveals a troubling state of the profession, including 60% of respondents who report an experience with burnout and 62% of them are forced to supplement their income with other types of work to make ends meet. More than 52% of respondents said they were concerned about the impact…
President Donald Trump’s new tariff chart, which he unveiled Wednesday at the Rose Garden, had a mixture of surprising and predictable countries on the list. A high tariff on China? Not so surprising. But among the top 10 countries on his chart, eight are in Asia. Many close US allies like South Korea and Japan…
By WIN Team As journalism increasingly shifts to digital platforms, online harassment has become one of the most pressing threats to journalists worldwide. The impact extends beyond individual reporters – it threatens press freedom, diversity in media, and the public’s right to information. To help media organisations respond effectively, WAN-IFRA WIN has developed a Newsroom…
A newsroom leader in digital strategy, journalist and media executive Ryan Y. Kellett is a 2025 Nieman-Berkman Klein fellow for Journalism Innovation at Harvard University. Most recently, he was VP of Audience at Axios Media, where he helped scale Axios Local to 30 cities across the US, and launched an in-house creator team. He had…
The three-day World News Media Congress organised by WAN-IFRA in partnership with Agora SA, publisher of Gazeta Wyborcza, will bring together participants from over 60 countries to examine how news organisations are innovating and adapting in the face of relentless technological changes, political pressures, and financial challenges, while upholding independent journalism. Wałęsa, as the leader…
Over the past decade, the synthetic drug fentanyl has devastated the United States, killing more than a quarter of a million Americans, making it, according to some officials, the deadliest drug in US history. And over the past two months, even amid signs that the fentanyl crisis is starting to wane, the drug has also…
If, on January 19, 2025, a day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, you had asked foreign aid experts, “does the US Agency for International Development (USAID) need reform?” most would have readily said “yes.” Not enough programs are evaluated for effectiveness; too much is run through a small number of private contractors; the foreign aid mission…
Washington has been convulsed over the past week by the question of how a prominent journalist was invited into a private Signal chat between senior Trump administration officials over an impending military action and why that conversation was happening on Signal at all. But the actual topic that these officials were discussing — a strike…