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Digital Media India 2021: How technology can aid the „new normal“
The tenth edition of WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India (DMI) conference was held virtually from 2 to 4 March, with more than 200 news media executives from over 15 countries in attendance. The Hindu Group was named "Champion Publisher of the year" on the occasion of the South Asian Digital Media 2020 Awards Ceremony. The conference, with the theme ‘Digital revenue and technology,’ covered a range of news publishing topics, such as digital transformation, subscription stories, newsletters, ecommerce, and settling in with the ‘new COVID-19 normal’. Day 1 of the conference opened with a keynote address by Edward Roussel, Chief Innovation Officer, Dow Jones & The Wall Street Journal, USA. Roussel…
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WAN-IFRA launches a new programme in the Middle East to drive newsroom transformation towards reader revenue success
A programme tailored to pioneering Middle Eastern newsrooms, the Newsroom Transformation Programme 2021 will be launched on May 18, 2021. It will provide intensive coaching, training and mentoring over three months to senior editorial and commercial participants. Ten selected news publishers across the Middle East will be able to speed up the transformation of their newsrooms to ensure they are both audience-centric and sustainable. The participants will be drawn from the 10 news organisations which are selected from applications by WAN-IFRA members in the region. A formal call for applicants will go out next week. Facebook and WAN-IFRA have partnered to launch the new initiative. Mechthild Schimpf, Director Middle East…
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WAN-IFRA Announces New Media Freedom Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa
The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announces a new DKK 6.5M (€900k) partnership with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support media freedom in nine countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. WAN-IFRA will work with print and digital media organisations in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe to improve the safety of journalists and the security of newsrooms, increase media-led advocacy around press freedom and gender-related issues, provide high-level business and editorial management support, and offer financial assistance to strengthen public interest reporting. The partnership builds on a previous three-year strategic engagement with the Ministry (2015-2018) and complements WAN-IFRA’s existing programme engagements on the African…
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WAN-IFRA Unveils New Brand Identity with Redesigned Logo and Website
WAN-IFRA, the leading world association of news publishers and media tech companies, launched today its new corporate brand identity, including a redesigned logo and website. These changes come at a time when the association is evolving its service offerings and expanding its global reach. Editorial, tech, and business used to belong to different universes. They slowly started to merge in the past few years prompted by the necessity to convert audiences into loyal, engaged users and digital subscribers. Undoubtedly, the effects of the ongoing health crisis have reverberated within news organisations, accelerating this move towards better alignment of every aspect of publishing: newsroom, distribution, production, product development, planning, business development. This…
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WAN-IFRA joins the Washington Post Press Freedom Partnership
The Washington Post Press Freedom Partnership, a public service initiative from The Post to promote press freedom worldwide, today announced the addition of WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, to its growing coalition of partners. The Partnership also announced its first supporting partner, the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Digital program, which will help elevate the work of the Partnership to key stakeholders working to expand protections for journalists around the world. WAN-IFRA and Aspen Digital join a global group of eight partner organisations: Committee to Protect Journalists, International Press Institute, International Women’s Media Foundation, James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, National Press Club, One Free Press Coalition, Reporters Committee for Freedom of…
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New WAN-IFRA research on sexual harassment in the media workplace in Southeast Asia
WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) and City, University of London, are now entering the second phase of a major research study into sexual harassment in the media workplace. In this second phase, the survey will look at the extent of this problem in select Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam. This phase of the research will run from November 2020 until March 2021, following an initial phase which collected responses from Africa, specifically Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. An initial study conducted by WIN in 2018 identified a significant gap in the available data on sexual harassment in media, specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa, the…
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WAN-IFRA announces new dates for World News Media Congress 2021
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has decided to postpone the 73rd World News Media Congress, which was to be held in June 2021. The event is now scheduled in Taiwan from 28 to 30 September 2021. The decision was made following consultations with exhibitors, speakers, officials, and WAN-IFRA strategic partner UDN (United Daily News Group of Taiwan) and considering the significant impact of international travel at this time. The event will include the 2nd World Media Leaders Summit, 28th World Editors Forum and the 5th Women in News Summit. For more information and regular updates, visit the event website. “Our first consideration under…
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WAN-IFRA and UNESCO join forces to support journalism in the face of existential economic menace
UNESCO and the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) are joining forces to address the impending global emergency facing independent journalism. The announcement of the co-operation was made at the 40th-anniversary celebration of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), an inter-governmental forum for media development. As the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, the decimation of journalism in many areas of the world constitutes a growing threat, bringing existing challenges to a tipping point. Each month brings new reports of job losses in journalism and the closure of once-vibrant local media outlets. “Professional, independent journalism is critical for providing populations with life-saving information during this crisis and plays an essential…
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Winners of WAN-IFRA’s Print Innovation Awards announced
WAN-IFRA announced the winners of its third edition of Print Innovation Awards during the recent World Printers Summit. Each year, the Print Innovation Awards celebrate the world’s most innovative print advertisings and products of newspaper and magazine publishers. The awards are open to newspaper and magazine publishers as well as for advertisers and advertising agencies. This year, DB Corp (India), Stuff Ltd. (New Zealand), Malayala Manorama (India), Børneavisen (Denmark), and Times of India were the winners in the Advertising Innovation, Special Editions, Sustainability Innovation, Products for Young Readers and Product Innovation categories respectively. "Innovation in print is essential for newspapers, and this year’s contestants demonstrated a number of creative innovations," said Ingi…
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WAN-IFRA announces the winners of the 2020 World Digital Media Awards
The winners of the 2020 World Digital Media Awards have once again demonstrated a clear blueprint for successful news publishing: Powerful storytelling combined with content that is vital to the lives of consumers is essential in building profitable relationships with audiences. The World Digital Media Awards is the news media industry’s only truly global digital media competition. The 2020 winners came from the winners of WAN-IFRA’s regional Digital Media Awards during this past year in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and South Asia, which together provide news publishers with regular showcases for the best-practice innovation in digital publishing worldwide. The regional awards are evaluated by local juries…
