Engaging audiences through satire

In this post, Amina Boubia from the Program on Independent Journalism explores how satire can make journalism more entertaining and accessible for new audiences.

Celebrating Asia’s best in Digital

Investment to transform tech, content and focus at the South China Morning Post (SCMP) is yielding results judging by the 11 awards, including six golds, it picked up at the 2019 Asian Digital Media Awards in Hong Kong on 29 October.

New programme launched to drive Asian newsroom change

Ten news publishers across Asia will be able to speed up the transformation of their newsrooms to ensure they are both audience-centred, and sustainable, thanks to a new partnership between WAN-IFRA and Facebook.

Google News Initiative lab helps Latin American publishers grow digital subs

As with publishers in other parts of the world, many traditional news organisations in Latin America – such as Argentina’s La Nación, Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo and Mexico’s Reforma – are finding that digital subscriptions are becoming increasingly important for growing revenue.

Australian newspapers unite against secrecy

Media freedom is under siege: What’s the government hiding? That is the message behind a whole lot of censured front pages that appeared in Australia on Monday morning as part of a landmark drive to enforce the public’s right to know.

Print is vital for critical thinking

2019-10-19. Reading on paper helps readers with their cognitive ability, concentration and retention, and building vocabulary and memory, reveals new study. Intergraf and the Board of WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum call on the European Commission to recognise the advantages of print to enable the development of critical thinking.

Schwäbisch Media flexes its muscle with ‘fitness program’

Kurt Sabathil, Managing Director of Schwäbisch Media, has seemingly taken to heart the Darwinian “survival of the fittest” theory when it comes to the strategy of this German regional media group.

End impunity for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Marking the second anniversary of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta, the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) condemns the ongoing impunity surrounding her death and reiterates calls for justice.

Bringing digital marketing into the newsroom

News needs digital marketing. That much should be obvious given the current landscape and the ways in which readers and viewers consume their content. The battle for millennials’ attentions dictates that news media must prepare to meet this key audience segment on the grounds of their choosing, rather than at a typical newsstand.

German publisher offers advertisers a personalised print newspaper

In July this year, Germany’s Funke media group launched what it claims to be the country’s first personalised newspaper: Smartpaper One2One. The new product offers advertisers the opportunity to present their desired topic on a minimum of eight newspaper pages as well as the possibility to adapt content to suit each individual reader and region.