NYT’s Mark Thompson: ‘We’re faster, but we’re still too slow and too cautious’

[VIDEO INSIDE] In a standing-room only session at the World News Media Congress in Glasgow, Mark Thompson, president and CEO of The New York Times company, sat down with Tina Stiegler, executive-in-residence of Norway’s StartupLab, to discuss the past, present and future of one of the world’s most successful news brands.

World Digital Media Awards winners announced at WNMC.19

The winners of this year’s World Digital Media Awards once again showed that engaging audiences with great storytelling and content that is insightful and relevant to their lives can go a long way towards building a lasting relationship with them.

‘It is about finding the best voices to tell the best stories’: Success for the BBC’s gender balance challenge 1 year on

The 50:50 project aims to drive change within the BBC, pushing for an equal number of male and female expert contributors across its airwaves

Building trust in the newsroom: Trying to keep up with the digital pace of change

How can newsrooms re-establish journalism as a trustworthy profession, worthy of their audiences’ attention? A number of editors and researchers tackled that question in an opening session today at the World News Media Congress in Glasgow.

Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Murdered Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

2019-06-01. The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded posthumously to Saudi Arabian journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.

‘Free media is not an optional extra,’ says UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

“A free media is not an optional extra, still less a ‘Western’ value: it forms one pillar of a thriving society, benefiting people in every corner of the world,” UK’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told delegates to WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress on Saturday in Glasgow.

Proof Before Pivot: The Case for Playing with Video

While pivoting to video did not bring the results many in the media sector had hoped for, it remains a compelling storytelling medium that can easily be experimented with, writes the Program on Independent Journalism’s Program Officer JJ Robinson.

The Google News Initiative, WAN-IFRA and Mather Economics drive an ambitious program supporting digital subscriptions in Latin America

Jamal Khashoggi awarded 2019 Golden Pen of Freedom

Murdered Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi has been given WAN-IFRA’s highest honour for furthering the cause of press freedom. “He knew the dangers. He would not be silent.”

Strength in numbers: Publisher ad alliances pick up

More publishers around the world are joining together to provide their advertisers with greater scale and data to more effectively target the audiences they want to reach.