The digital audience is at the centre of El Financiero’s redesign

What is the first thought that comes to mind at the mention of economic and financial journalism? A man in a suit on Wall Street reading a solemn and boring newspaper. But times have changed – and Mexico’s El Financiero knows it.

Verificado 2018: Using collaborative journalism to fight fake news in Mexico

For years, journalism has been praised as the “fourth estate,” placing it alongside the powers of democratic governments or in the process of democratization: the executive, the legislative and the judicial.

Lessons learned from the BBC’s global editorial transformation

Dmitry Shishkin is the BBC World Service’s Digital Development Editor. In this position, he and his colleagues are in charge of driving the digital transformation of the Service’s editorial teams around the world.

Grupo América’s new digital information bet

After six months of planning and hard work, Grupo América, the second most important media group in Argentina, joins the digital portals of hard news in the country with its A24.com project.

Skills and strategies for the newsroom of the future

Diverse in gender, nationalities, ages, and skills, and with a clear sense of mission to do great, impactful journalism. That’s how Dr Alexandra Borchardt, Director of Strategic Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, envisions newsrooms in 2020.

How Guatemala’s Prensa Libre makes the most of its social media strategy

“Social platforms are not the end goal, they are the channels to help fulfill your strategy. Be clear about that,” says 
Doménica Velásquez Navas, editorial director at Prensa Libre in Guatemala.

We owe Claude Bellanger what brings us together today

2018-03-17. One man, Claude Bellanger, has had an outstanding influence on the whole history of WAN-IFRA. He is one of the founders of the organisation and assumed the functions of general secretary from its creation in 1948, then of the president from 1962 up to 1978.

How a new tool might help bring back trust to Público’s readers

With a new project, Spanish news outlet Público is hoping to regain the trust of its readers by allowing them to retrace every step of the storytelling process. It’s called the “Transparent Journalism Tool.”

Four women told us what it’s like to be a top executive in Latin America’s news media industry

WAN-IFRA’s Americas Office talked with Andiara Petterle, Ginna Morelo, Mónica Almeida, and Isabel Amorim Sicherle about the main challenges they face as female executives in the region’s media industry.

New report sets guidelines for EU effort to tackle disinformation

Today, the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on fake news and online disinformation published its first report on digital disinformation within the EU, outlining the scope of the problem and steps stakeholders can take to provide citizens with more trustworthy information.