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World News Day 2020 sets ambitious global target
Highlighting journalism’s importance in an age of misinformation, the Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) — with support from Google News Initiative — aim to have 100 media supporters from around the world, up from 40 last year, for World News Day 2020. The annual global event is to take place on Monday, September 28. Modern-day news consumers are presented with unprecedented opportunities to interact with diverse news and information sources, but with the prevalence of falsehood parading as truth, particularly relating to the coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming harder to discern fact from fiction. World News Day 2020 aims to raise public awareness of the…
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World Editors Forum and Temasek Foundation launch new Young Media Leaders Fellowship Programme to groom future media industry leaders
The World Editors Forum, WAN-IFRA’s global network for editors news organisations, and Temasek Foundation launch new Young Media Leaders Fellowship Programme to groom future media industry leaders. The new Young Media Leaders (YML) Fellowship Programme, an initiative of the World Editors Forum Asia Chapter, the regional network in Asia for editors within the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and supported by Temasek Foundation, is launched today with its inaugural class of 30 Fellows. The fellowship programme seeks to nurture the next generation of media leaders who are committed to shaping the regional future. The aim is for YML Fellows to contribute effectively to the pursuit of good journalism, foster dialogue…
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Asian news media enterprises embark on a five-month transformation programme.
Amid a Covid-19 pandemic that has crippled global economies and is threatening the future of the media industry, 10 news media companies from six Asian cities are embarking on WAN-IFRA’s inaugural Newsroom and Business Transformation 2020 programme. This first-of-its-kind programme for Asian news organisations brings together one senior editorial and one senior commercial executive from each publisher for five months of training and coaching to equip them with the insights, know-how and tools to execute a transformation strategy in their organisations. The curriculum covers Journalism, Operations, Design Thinking, Organisational Culture and Audience Engagement. The ten news media enterprises participating in the WAN-IFRA’s Newsroom and Business Transformation 2020 programme include: Bangkok Post Bisnis…
