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2024-02-21. The German publisher created a successful new brand for food and gastronomy content and transformed its approach to covering local music festivals. These and other audience-focused efforts have dramatically improved their performance metrics and paved the way for future digital revenue growth.

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.

2024-02-20. The two-day global summit, hosted by the World Printers Forum, is scheduled to take place from 8-9 October in Vienna, Austria at Palais Niederösterreich.

2024-02-15. Alexandra Borchardt and Lyndsey Jones, coaches in WAN-IFRA’s Table Stakes Europe programme, discuss how paying close attention to the needs and interests of specific audience groups can help ensure that transformation projects stay on track and on target.

2024-02-15. The African media fraternity is mourning the passing of award-winning, veteran Sudanese journalist and 2005 Golden Pen of Freedom recipient Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh, who died in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, aged 96.

2024-02-12. Elin Stueland, Project Lead AI at Schibsted’s Norwegian regional title Stavanger Aftenblad explains how the publisher is attracting young readers through their reader promise of covering local football like it’s the Champions League.

2024-02-12. Every day since October 7, AFP's team of journalists in Gaza have been risking their lives to cover a war that has shaken the world. They have all had to flee their homes, working without respite in the shadow of death in a territory they are not allowed to leave.

2024-02-09. The Globe and Mail’s Editor in Chief has many stories to tell, none more compelling than his 30-year investigation into the final flight of Zulu Delta 576 – and how it continues to impact his career, and newsroom, today.

2024-02-09. Award-winning non-profit news site Documented has taken audience engagement to the next level, and is now covering three New York immigrant communities via social media with news, investigations and resource guides. It’s just journalism, they say…

2024-02-08. High-profile speakers have joined the programme of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO) in Lillehammer, a city renowned for its links to literature and writers at risk

2024-02-08. Christoph Migotsch, Sustainability Manager and Head of Maintenance and Procurement at SV Zeitungsdruck GmbH, shares how the company documented all its direct and indirect emissions for corporate carbon footprint calculations.

2024-02-06. Taiwan's United Daily News Group is using data to drive traffic and engagement with their readers by providing UDN's journalists with the information they need to meet user expectations.

2024-02-06. The Digital Media Awards Americas are returning in 2024, with North, Central and South American projects competing for top honors. The awards will continue to recognize and reward small media outlets and larger media groups, providing an equal opportunity for all participants to compete.

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

2024-02-02. WAN-IFRA has denounced efforts by government and police in Peru to undermine freedom of expression after the publication of a cartoon drawing attention to recent public scandals.

2024-02-02. We continually report on how news publishers, both large and small, in countries worldwide are successfully developing and fine-tuning their reader revenue initiatives to build their subscriber base and reduce churn. Our latest report highlights 10 of the most interesting cases we have encountered in the past 12 months.

2024-02-01. Dagens Næringsliv (DN), part of the DN Media Group, is Norway’s largest business newspaper with a daily readership of 300,000+. Like many publishers, DN was struggling to attract more young readers aged 18 to 35, and specifically those who were interested in finance.

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.

2024-01-30. WAN-IFRA's work is guided by the conviction that media freedom is firmly rooted in sustainable, economically independent news businesses. We are grateful to our members and partners for their support and what we achieved together in 2023, a milestone year for WAN-IFRA. Celebrating our seventy-fifth anniversary stands out as a key highlight, as does growing the number of global publishers we partner with.