“I spend most of my time thinking about how to steer organisations through the coming years of uncertainty,” said Gard Steiro.  “The only thing that’s certain is that leading a newsroom will not get easier in the years ahead. Visibility is poor, and we must navigate through a thick fog,” he said. As Editor-in-Chief and…

Jimmy Lai, 78, the media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner, has been found guilty by Hong Kong’s High Court of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces under the city’s national security law. He will be sentenced next year and could face life in jail. Reacting to the verdict, David Walmsley, World Editors Forum President…

The Stronger Together programme – implemented by WAN-IFRA in partnership with the Norway’s Mediebedriftenes Landsforening (MBL) and the Association of Independent Regional Publishers of Ukraine (AIRPPU) – has, throughout 2025, supported 40 Ukrainian media outlets through funding, training, mentoring, and peer exchange. As the programme approaches the end of its first year, independent media across…