2020-10-20 The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced  a proposed rule to fix the stay period for students from abroad, exchange visitors and foreign journalists to improve national security. Specifically, the proposed rule seeks to remove the current framework that allows non immigrants, including representatives of foreign Information media, to remain in the United States for as long as they maintain compliance with the terms and conditions of their period required to complete their assignment, or employment. Read more ...

2020-10-15 The Stars4Media consortium presented yesterday the projects developed under its European exchange and training initiative for young news media professionals launched last Spring. More than 100 young news media professionals coming from 42 news organisations in 17 countries participated in the one-year long programme. Twenty-one projects were presented yesterday during a conference held in Brussels at Europe’s Media Lab, Fondation EURACTIV. Five teams were awarded for the outstanding quality of their work. Read more ...

2020-09-23 The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) hosted the first virtual edition of the Indian Media Leaders eSummit on 21 and 22 September, with more than 500 news media executives registered from across South Asia. The summit brought together ideas on business transformation, future of news, structural changes in the Indian journalism revenue pattern. Among other topics, it addressed future business models, reader engagement and distributed newsrooms with the pandemic as the backdrop. The WAN-IFRA India 2020 - Printing Summit, India's popular annual event for technology and print production managers, follows the 'Indian Media Leaders eSummit' on 23-24 September.  Read more ...

2020-09-16 The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to Colombian journalist, Jineth Bedoya Lima. Read more ...