Across the Middle East and its diaspora, this year’s winning projects reflect journalism shaped by pressure, constraint and complexity. A common thread runs among the laureates: the meaningful use of audience participation, where citizen-generated content is not only collected but verified, structured and turned into editorial output. Technology is applied with purpose, responding to real…
Perfectionist? So how can you tell when your perfectionist traits, which in many ways have aided your creative prowess, have gone too far? If you’re prone to obsession, especially when it comes to work, there’s always a way to justify why it’s worth the agony. But, as Siqi, renald and Pablo attest, getting bogged down…
ENBD secures a $3 billion RBL Bank deal, marking the United Arab Emirates’ largest foreign banking investment in India to date. Dubai’s Emirates NBD Bank PJSC (ENBD), the second-largest bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is about to make the largest foreign direct investment in India’s banking sector in history, with the acquisition of…
WAN-IFRA is proud to congratulate the esteemed winners of this year’s 11th edition of the Digital Media Africa Awards. We commend the news media organisations across Africa for their creativity and dedication shown in these groundbreaking projects. Our sincere appreciation to the publishers who shared their work, as well as our distinguished jury for their…
Wu Yize’s net worth is estimated at £700,000 to £1 million in 2026, built largely from snooker prize money as he has climbed into the world’s top 10. But how much is Wu Yize actually worth right now — and how much could that change? With the World Snooker Championship final currently underway and concluding…
The twisted story of Blackstone-backed Liftoff Mobile may provide the clearest view into the complications of going public now. The ad-tech firm filed its S-1 in January, withdrew it in February, then confidentially refiled just hours later—keeping its options open while markets lurched. It is not alone. Fintech company Clear Street filed to go public…
From the moment a customer clicks “buy” to the second their package arrives, a long transit journey unfolds. What often seems like a simple transaction is actually a multi-stage process that includes complex machinery, transportation networks, and human oversight. But no matter how fine-tuned the shipment funnel might be, hazards can still occur. In the…
Newsroom CMS suppliers say AI is no longer being treated as an experimental add-on, but as a structural layer within editorial workflows. One message was clear throughout the discussion: AI delivers value only when it is embedded directly into newsroom processes, not when it exists as a separate toolset. This means that when AI is…
WAN-IFRA is delving deeper into newsrooms’ multimedia capabilities and conducting a global survey of top media executives to help inform a report (supported by base Media Cloud) to be published this summer. 80% of publishers told us in our World Press Trends survey and report this year that video and audio is one of the…
Japan is reasserting itself in global finance, shedding its long-standing image as a passive anchor of ultra-low rates. Nowadays, it’s moving back toward the center of international capital flows. Three reinforcing dynamics are driving this transition: monetary normalization, sustained corporate governance reform and a renewed wave of foreign investor interest. The gradual end of negative…