World Press Trends 2026-27: Have your say on news industry trends, threats and opportunities
The World Press Trends survey features questions on what revenue streams are driving publishers’ strategies, cost allocations, financial and strategic forecasts, as well as AI adoption across newsroom workflows, monetisation, and search discovery.
The survey also explores pressing challenges like press freedom threats, climate change, and evolving relationships with tech platforms and news creators.
Click below to take the survey in your preferred language:
To thank you for participating, we would like to send you the initial results of the survey (in a slide deck) in September, and a copy of the final full report in January 2027. Just leave your email at the end of the survey.
The data is collected anonymously, and survey findings will only be reported in the aggregate.
Read more about our last year’s report: World Press Trends Outlook: Rising ‘three-pillar’ revenue model fuels industry optimism
If you have any questions about the survey, you can contact Dean Roper, Director of Insights & Editor-in-Chief at WAN-IFRA, via: dean.roper@wan-ifra.org
