Most AI products get dumped after the novelty wears off. The challenge for publishers is building products that continue to create value, according to Rohan Tyagi, Chief Product Officer at NDTV. Building AI products is becoming easier but developing products that continue to create value is getting harder. “This is because the entry barrier to…
Of all the extinction-level threats vying for our attention, AI, climate change, and nuclear war tend to get most of the airplay. But Annie Jacobsen thinks biological war should be near the top of our mental list of doomsday scenarios, too. She should know — Jacobsen has carved out a unique niche as America’s foremost…
This article originally appeared in our World News Media Congress 2026 report. Read more about it, and WAN-IFRA Members can download the full report on our Knowledge Hub. “From day one, Brut made a choice. We would be a video-native media only,” said Etienne Mélou, Long-Form Editor-in-Chief and Producer at Brut. Since its creation in…
On 22 July 2011 Norway experienced its deadliest terrorist attack since the second world war. Fifteen years on, most Norwegians are clear about the facts surrounding that historic day: who Anders Behring Breivik was, and the two deadly attacks he is imprisoned for. Ask an AI chatbot this, and it will tell you. It will…
Regular X users are by now accustomed to Grok’s built-in biases and lack of guardrails, whether they use the platform’s controversial chatbot or not; there are more than enough retweets and memes to suggest the model is prompted to veer towards emotive content, rather than facts. So the findings from a recent Norwegian experiment on…
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: As the Iran war drags on, the US may be running perilously low on key munitions. What’s happening? According to reporting by Reuters…
Nguyen was elected to WAN-IFRA’s Supervisory Board by the association’s members, and subsequently elected by the Supervisory Board to the Executive Board, filling an existing vacancy and further strengthening the breadth of international expertise represented on WAN-IFRA’s Boards. Nguyen brings more than 30 years of experience in data analytics, product development, audience growth and digital…
In 2014, Narendra Modi pioneered the use of social media and digital campaigning in India to become prime minister. Known as one of the first global politicians to harness the power of the internet, he has the most social media followers of any world leader currently in office. Today, over a decade since Modi’s digital-first…
The programme kicked off with a two-day bootcamp in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 25 and 26 July, bringing together 18 independent media organisations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Ukraine. The cohort includes 13 organisations from the Western Balkans, marking WIN’s first engagement in the region, and five Ukrainian…
World News Day, a co-ordinated annual news industry campaign that started in 2018, offers newsrooms an opportunity to demonstrate the care, rigour and responsibility behind their work. Last year 1,000 newsbrands from over 100 countries participated. This year, given the rise of AI-generated content and disinformation, there is an urgent need to go bigger in…