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2024-04-10. WAN-IFRA recently announced the regional winners for our latest round of Digital Media Awards in Africa, the Americas and Europe. And last month, we presented the trophies to our winners in South Asia during the Digital Media India event.

2024-04-10. After a lengthy interruption, the international trade fair, drupa, will once again take place at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, from 28 May to 7 June. This year, the focus will be on sustainability and digitalisation.

2024-04-09. Andy Budiman, CEO of KG Media, shares insights from the Indonesian media group’s journey to adapt its business model and build a sustainable future for its media brands, including its flagship publication Kompas, Indonesia’s largest newspaper.

2024-04-08. Environmental regulations in Europe have compelled printing companies to disclose their carbon impact on the environment within their annual reports. Dr. Michael Has, Partner at Monopteros GmbH in Germany, shares insights to help companies in navigating ESG reporting during a webinar hosted by the World Printers Forum.

2024-04-05. THE Election Year. The Year of AI elections. With over 60 countries heading to the polls this year, the world may look a little – or a lot – different by the end of 2024. How are newsrooms managing coverage and the significant challenge to sort fact from fiction?

2024-04-05. As South Africans gear up for the seventh democratic elections in 30 years on 29 May, Adriaan Basson, editor-in-chief of one of the country’s largest newsrooms, shares his deepest concerns, in our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR interview.

2024-04-05. With rapid developments around AI, the upcoming demise of third-party cookies, and audiences' evolving content consumption habits, it is crucial for publishers to adopt a more agile mindset: “Gone are the days when you could create a five-year plan, three-year plan, one-year plan… Now it's a one-quarter and one-month plan.”

2024-04-04. Last September, The Daily Star in Bangladesh launched Keeron, an online learning platform. It provides the news publisher with a potentially massive new audience and revenue stream, seamlessly integrating with many of the publishing company's existing departments.

2024-04-04. The Hub launches with 'The Fundamentals of Safe Commissioning', a self-paced training course that equips editors with the skills they need to safely commission journalistic work, support the safety of freelancers they work with, and embed a culture of safety within their everyday practice.

2024-04-03. Declining trust, deepening polarisation, challenges to the business model, and an environment increasingly hostile to journalists: across the Americas, media face growing threats despite their vital watchdog role in upholding increasingly fragile democratic institutions.

2024-03-29. La importancia de incorporar la sostenibilidad de la democracia como uno más de los criterios de sostenibilidad empresarial, es la propuesta de Carlos Núñez que permitiría a los anunciantes alinear sus inversiones con los criterios ESG y fortalecer la calidad del periodismo independiente en un entorno digital desafiante.

2024-03-27. Change and transformation are inevitable for publishers when the threat is huge. But for Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), there was no threat – at least in terms of digital subscriptions. Here is how Germany’s biggest quality daily newspaper used the Table Stakes Europe method to build on its ongoing success.

2024-03-27. India’s HT Digital has achieved a 30 percent boost in content reach and a 20 percent increase in page views after automating a few workflow processes. The newsroom is using AI to reshape digital media strategies, content creation and user journeys.

2024-03-26. In the past year, Tamedia strategically implemented content sourcing and production automation, which has led to a significant expansion of its hyperlocal newsletter portfolio in communities with as few as 5,000 inhabitants. This growing portfolio now offers personalised and flexible distribution of local content, reaching up to 40% of the inhabitants in the serviced communities, with engagement rates well above average.

2024-03-25. Julián Gallo, desarrollador de UAlter AI, revela cómo la IA está transformando la relación entre los medios y la audiencia.

2024-03-22. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented interventions. As news media worldwide face calls for honest, transparent reporting, the head of one of the world’s largest newsrooms is increasingly vocal about misinformation, obfuscation and the safety of his journalists. Our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR chat is with Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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.

2024-03-18. In this episode of WAN-IFRA's "Innovate Local" series of webinars, Markus Rask Jensen, Director of News, presents the new Amedia AI Sandbox. At the end of February, Amedia launched this safe environment for all journalists in the Norwegian local media group to test and use generative AI for various time-saving tasks.

2024-03-18. In the current media market, with plummeting ad revenues and the impending demise of third-party cookies, subscriptions have become a priority for most publishers worldwide.

2024-03-18. The annual edition of WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India (DMI) was held in New Delhi on 13 and 14 March. It also hosted the Digital Media Awards South Asia 2023 presentation, with HT Labs (Hindustan Media Ventures Limited) bagging the Champion Publisher Award.