Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo opening address at World News Media Congress 2023

2023-06-28. Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo, WAN-IFRA President, addresses delegates attending the World News Media Congress 2023 in Taipei.

WAN-IFRA honours the world’s top digital media projects

2023-06-28. The winners of WAN-IFRA’s prestigious annual Digital Media Awards Worldwide, recognising outstanding achievements in digital media by the news industry, were announced in Taiwan on 28 June during a ceremony at the World News Media Congress 2023.

How Iranian journalists master expression within deadly oppression

2023-06-28. Despite a battered media landscape where journalists are jailed and executed with impunity, authorities cannot erase resistance.

Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been awarded WAN-IFRA’s 2023 Golden Pen of Freedom

2023-06-28. The two Iranian journalists were instrumental in publicising news about Mahsa Amini’s death while in police custody, as well as the nationwide protests that followed. Now, they’re being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison.

A World of Courage: How our Golden Pen laureates continue to inspire

2023-06-28. Since naming its very first recipient 62 years ago, the Golden Pen of Freedom has been turning the spotlight on repressive governments, and the journalists and news publishers who fight them, the world over.

2023 Golden Pen of Freedom Award Speech – Martha Ramos

2023-06-28. “Let us once again raise our voices as one, loud and clear, so they hear us all the way in Tehran: release Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, and all jailed journalists. Let the press live free in Iran, once and for all.”

Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Journalists Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, Jailed in Iran

2023-06-28. The 2023 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to Elahe Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, currently in jail in Iran.

What are the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence in your newsroom?

2023-06-27. Lyndsey Jones, publishing consultant, digital transformation expert, strategic advisor and coach, shares her views about how to navigate an AI world where there is likely to be a further explosion of content creation in an overcrowded market.

Exceptional Editors from Botswana, Jordan and the Philippines receive the 2023 WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award

2023-06-27. Emang Mutapati, editor-in-chief of The Voice in Botswana, has been named 2023 Laureate for Africa; Lina Ejeilat, co-founder and editor-in-chief of 7iber in Jordan, has been named 2023 Laureate for the Arab Region; and Glenda Gloria, the executive editor and co-founder of Rappler in The Philippines, has been named 2023 Laureate for Southeast Asia.

‘Measuring impact is not good for business – it’s great for business,’ Daily Maverick’s Styli Charalambous

2023-06-23. News avoidance is high, and trust in news is low. How, though, are newsrooms responding and adapting to the changes required to remain relevant? See why Daily Maverick’s Styli Charalambous commits to Impact Measurement.