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Winners announced for the African Digital Media Awards 2020.

2020-09-08 The winners of the WAN-IFRA African Digital Media Awards were announced on Tuesday, 8 September 2020, during the Digital Media Africa virtual conference. Read more ...

WAN-IFRA Women in News names Mary Mbewe the 2020 Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for Africa.

2020-09-08 Today, WAN-IFRA Women in News names Mary Mbewe, Executive Editor of the Daily Nation in Zambia as the 2020 WIN Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for Africa. The announcement will be made at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Africa conference. Read more ...

Global rights groups call for the release of Bangladeshi journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol

2020-08-13 In a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, civil society defenders of free expression from all over the world call for the immediate release of Shafiqul Islam Kajol and accountability for his mistreatment. Read more ...

The arrest of Apple Daily's publisher is an assault against Hong Kong's citizens' freedoms.

2020-08-10 WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers and the World Editors Forum, have expressed grave concern over the arrest in Hong Kong on Monday of Jimmy Lai, the founder and publisher of Apple Daily, the continued detention of Hopewell Chin'ono, a Zimbabwean journalist and 2010 Nieman Fellow and the increased jail time for Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein in Egypt. Read more ...

WAN-IFRA Women in News Leadership Accelerator launches in Vietnam.

2020-08-07 WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) Leadership Accelerator programme kicks off in Vietnam. The 2-month long (August-September 2020) career training for women journalists and editors will include sessions on career development, media management, and gender balance in content. With COVID-19 changing the way news organisations operate, the programme will help women journalists acquire new skills and build their capacity for more successful careers. Read more ...

GNI APAC Subscriptions Lab Launches at WAN-IFRA Asian Media Leaders eSummit.

2020-07-30 The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), FTI Consulting and Google announced the launch of the APAC GNI Subscriptions Lab at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Leaders eSummit. The Lab is an intensive four-month programme to help eight different news publishers from the Asia-Pacific region strengthen digital subscriptions capabilities and grow reader revenue. Interested publishers can apply here until August 7, 2020. Read more ...

WAN-IFRA announces Taiwan to host the World News Media Congress 2021 and reschedules Zaragoza to 2022.

2020-07-28 Due to continued uncertainties and travel constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic, WAN-IFRA is calling off the World News Media Congress, which was initially planned for Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2020. Meanwhile, it has named Taiwan as its venue for the 2021 Congress and rescheduled the 2022 Congress in Zaragoza. Read more ...

World News Day 2020 sets ambitious global target

2020-06-29 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. Read more ...

Suspicion of political interference against independent media in Bulgaria.

2020-06-26 WAN-IFRA expresses its concerns over suspicions of political interference in the prosecution of Ivo Prokopiev, owner of the Economia Group in Bulgaria. The haste of the judicial authorities in a court case against Bulgarian media owner and businessman Ivo Prokopiev gives rise to fears of a new instance of political intimidation of the independent Bulgarian press. It sheds light, once again, on the steady erosion of independence and pluralism of Bulgaria's media over the past fifteen years, and a disturbing lack of scrutiny on media issues from EU's authorities. Read more ...

WAN-IFRA’s Programme to support local journalism in Europe set to grow.

2020-06-18 WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, is launching round two of Table Stakes Europe in partnership with the Google News Initiative. The one-year transformation and coaching programme for regional and local news publishers will welcome twenty-four participating news enterprises, growing from fourteen in the previous edition. The sessions will start in October 2020 and publishers are invited to apply now. Read more ...