Media Innovation

2024-05-17. Our EDITOR TO EDITOR series honours WAN-IFRA’s 2024 Women in News Editorial Leadership Award Laureates, announced this week. Here, Arab region Laureate Dima Khatib shares career challenges and triumphs.

“The juxtaposition of man and machine is yesterday's thinking. The boundary will most likely increasingly dissolve. Digital will become more human-like, and human more digital-like. Hence our understanding of what is ‘real’, ‘true’ and ‘trustworthy’ will be redefined.”

2024-05-17. At the core of issues around bias are accuracy, trust and the quality of data – which, left unchecked, can skew results. AI author and transformation coach Lyndsey Jones unpacks our AI fears – and offers newsroom tips on monitoring and reviewing data.

2024-05-14. In this exclusive conversation, Paulo Samia, CEO of UOL, explains the evolution of the Brazilian media company's business strategy, how it is growing reach, revenues (and influence), its AI strategy and his vision for the future.

2024-05-13. “AI is just a tool… it’s never the end-product,” noted Auriel Aulia Widjaja, Head of Product at Indonesia's IDN Media, which began as a single news website 10 years ago and now comprises seven media verticals, a live-streaming super app, and various digital media and experiential businesses with over 70 million monthly active users across its ecosystem.

2024-05-08. How to stand out as a trusted source of news is something that challenges the industry. OLAF STEENFADT argues that a new identification system for news publishers is an essential tool to safeguard credibility.

2024-05-07. Most publishers have at least experimented with some form of Artificial Intelligence thus far. We wanted to ask just a few questions about how news executives think AI will impact their business and journalism within the next few years.

2024-05-03. Using "engagement criteria" as a tool, more than 100 young, global, news media users aim to set a new standard – with guidelines – for news outlets, in a collaborative workshop with editors attending the World News Media Congress.

2024-04-19. Over the course of her 25-year career in media, Swedish journalist Pia Rehnquist has held various roles. Now five months into her new role as Business Area Manager of Bonnier News Local, she spoke to us about keeping the newsroom sustainable amid economic downturns, AI and digital disruptors, in our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR interview.

2024-04-17. Verdens Gang (VG), one of Norway’s premier news outlets, is using AI to help enhance its newsroom productivity. With a team of seven developers, VG is experimenting with various AI-driven tools built to meet the needs of the newsroom.

2024-03-22. A US study on burnout in journalism finds a global industry in crisis – and proposes solid solutions for newsrooms and educators – to combat this.

2024-03-08. A transformative, collaborative workshop bringing together more than 100 young news media users and editors from around the world, aims to identify a new set of guidelines for news outlets to ensure their products have youth appeal.

2024-03-04. Scroll, an independent Indian news organisation, began exploring ways to incorporate Artificial Intelligence into its workflow in 2021. The digital-only organisation wanted to adapt its long-form reportage to different formats and video seemed to be its best bet to reach a large audience.

2024-02-26. In this article, based on our second Innovate Local webinar, we focus on Bonnier News Local’s ad product “Handla lokalt” (Shop Locally), which is easy to understand, easy to buy and has a natural link to social media – all of which makes it attractive to advertisers.

2024-02-21. WAN-IFRA announced the launch of "AI Unlocked." The programme and forum is tailored for all news media publishers interested in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on their organisation. Through AI Unlocked, media professionals will learn, discuss, experiment with, and define ways to use AI in their business. The initiative is open to news publishers around the globe.

2024-02-05. El trabajo de WAN-IFRA se guía por la convicción de que la libertad de prensa está firmemente arraigada en negocios de noticias sostenibles y económicamente independientes. Agradecemos a nuestros miembros y socios su apoyo y lo que logramos juntos en 2023, un año histórico para WAN-IFRA. La celebración de nuestro 75 aniversario se destaca como un momento clave, a medida que crece el número de editoriales globales con las que nos asociamos.

2024-02-05. "Digitalisation is a technology-driven development. When technology is part of the problem/challenge, it can also be part of the solution. And that is, what we have been good at in the past and our mission is to be good at it in the future to adapt to “new” market mechanisms and technologies faster than others." That is from Heimo Krum, head of transformation for FUNKE Technology in Germany. | Sponsored Content

2024-01-31. WAN-IFRA announces the launch of Innovate Local, the first global forum for local media. Through the Innovate Local programme, media professionals will be able to exchange actionable and scalable ideas with a focus on opportunities and problems unique to the business of local journalism. The initiative addresses small and midsized local media and local entities of bigger media groups.

2024-01-26. A Lisbon-based digital news startup’s groundbreaking community storytelling initiative is evidence that meeting audience needs is a remedy for news avoidance – and can help rebuild trust.

2024-01-15. Condé Nast offers an interesting case study of transformation in the publishing industry, having embarked on a significant restructuring process in order to adapt to changes in the market, its audiences and advertisers.