New report: World Press Trends Outlook 2025-2026

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New report: Digital Media Awards Worldwide

12 cases of excellence in innovation

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Introducing the Sports User Needs model: a new framework for audience-centric sports content strategy

A decade after the User Needs Model was first adopted, the Sports User Needs Model offers a new editorial framework for this ‘emotionally charged, commercially pressured’ sector. Dmitry Shishkin unpacks five common newsroom concerns about this practical, audience-driven tool. 

An audience expert’s advice for getting first-time visitors to come back within a week

During a recent WAN-IFRA Data Science Expert Group meetup, Teresa Mondría Terol, who is currently part of The New York Times’s AI Initiative team, described research she did to help determine what factors make a first-time reader return to a local news site for a second time within seven days.

WAN-IFRA denounces sentences for Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily executives in Hong Kong

Described as “cruel and profoundly unjust”, the sentences imposed on Jimmy Lai and his Apple Daily colleagues this week send a chilling message to journalists and independent media, and risk marking the end of freedom of expression in Hong Kong. 

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World Press Trends Outlook 2025-2026

WAN-IFRA’s annual flagship research report reveals an industry that is not in retreat, instead innovating and adapting – all in the face of daunting challenges, both to its journalism and its business.

Digital Media Awards Worldwide Report 2025

2025-12-22. This report features the winners of WAN-IFRA’s 2025 Digital Media Awards Worldwide competition. The finalists were selected from the prestigious regional awards that WAN-IFRA holds throughout the year. Ultimately it boils down to 12 winners, all judged by a global panel of news media executives and experts.

Where publishers are seeing AI’s real value – so far

2025-09-05. With all the investment in AI in the last few years, publishers are still struggling with measuring the technology’s true value – and its ROI. While much of the industry discourse has focused on understanding the technology itself, the harder question of measuring real impact and financial returns has remained largely unexplored. This report addresses that critical gap.

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Our accelerator programme for prototypes and a roadmap to scale up artificial intelligence in the newsroom

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World Printers Forum

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We build a common understanding of the news media policy challenges around the world

Women in News

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WAN-IFRA oversees initiatives to ensure that the press' essential role in society is understood and respected.

Keep journalism alive – support free, independent media worldwide

From a coup d’état in Myanmar to the crisis in Afghanistan and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, over the last 12 months our members have been incredibly generous in their offers of support to WAN-IFRA Media Freedom. Many ask us how best they can assist – one way is to donate to our dedicated fund to support media in crisis.

Press Freedom Advocacy Campaigns

WAN-IFRA  speaks out in defence of press freedom to reduce censorship and champion the editorial and economic independence of media. Our advocacy campaigns in support of colleagues from around the globe are endorsed and promoted by members, local Media Freedom Committees, professional colleagues and peers from the global human rights and freedom of expression community.

Women in News Digital ABC

The essential guide for media managers and journalists to confront the disrupted traditional outputs of the media industry and to build and operationalise strategies to manage a successful digital transition.

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