UGC contributors critical to driving subscriptions, revenue and retention

2023-03-07. Most publishers today understand that driving their unknown readers to an authenticated registered state is vital to optimise on-site personalisation and collect relevant first-party data. An authenticated user is also more likely to move down the funnel to a Subscribed state.

Tension and anxiety in Georgia as NGOs, press face ‘foreign agent’ label

2023-02-03. A bill set to mark NGOs and media organisations in Georgia that receive funding from abroad as ‘agents of foreign influence’ is gaining momentum in parliament, sparking fears of an authoritarian clampdown.

How The Gender Beat aims to advance gender issues by taking cues from climate journalism

2023-03-02. Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, we are flagging The Gender Beat, a new global collective of journalists working to raise the profile of gender journalism, and the people who make it happen.

Meet Martha Ramos, the new President of the World Editors Forum

2023-03-02. Respected newsroom leader from Mexico, one of the world’s most hostile environments for journalists, will lead WAN-IFRA’s global community of editors for the next two years.

Mexican and Canadian editors to lead WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum

2023-03-01. The Board of the World Editors Forum (WEF) has elected Martha Ramos, the editorial director of Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), Mexico, as President, with David Walmsley, Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail, Canada, serving as Deputy President.

World Printers Forum Outlook 2022-2023 survey

We are asking printing executives from across the world to share their insights on how their business has been developing and how they expect it to evolve in the coming year. The survey is available in English, German and Spanish.

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Aftenposten’s Audun Solberg: ‘Distribution cost is the biggest concern’

2023-02-28. In an interview with WAN-IFRA, Audun Solberg, Editor for Newspaper and Publishing House at Norway’s Aftenposten, talks about distribution challenges, growth potential, business opportunities and more.

Want to reach younger audiences? Help is likely already working in your newsroom

2023-02-23. Ask a major news publisher which new readers they’d most like to reach, and odds are their first response will be “younger audiences.”

One year at war

2023-02-23. Ukraine has been at war for one year to the day, and it affects us all. It is a dark anniversary. As an international organisation with a human rights mandate, WAN-IFRA’s duty is to stand in solidarity with our colleagues in distress. Since February 2022, WAN-IFRA and its international members have mobilised to support our Ukrainian colleagues. On this occasion, UMBA, one of WAN-IFRA’s two member associations in Ukraine, takes stock of the aid provided in 2022 and why it is vital to continue our solidarity support.

‘We’re just getting started’ – David Kaplan on the future of investigative journalism

2023-02-17. David Kaplan could well be credited for strengthening watchdog journalism around the world. As co-founder and inaugural Executive Director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, he led the organisation from an initiative with a few hundred followers in 2012 to a “network of networks” spanning some 244 groups in 90 countries.