Retaining and developing talented journalists to lead newsrooms into the future was the driving motivation for a newsroom leadership programme launched in Asia five years ago by WAN-IFRA. The initiative was in response to a pressing challenge identified by chief editors: newsrooms were losing skilled staff to competitors and public relations roles, leaving them frustrated…

2024 is on track to become the hottest year since humans have been keeping track, beating out 2023. The extraordinary back-to-back record-breakers amplified disasters like heat waves, hurricanes, and torrential downpours around the world, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions in damages. Few countries have emerged completely unscathed over the past two years, but…