Singapore Press Holdings sweeps Asian Digital Media Awards 2020 with five wins. South China Morning Post came in a close second place

The results of this year’s Asian Digital Media Awards were announced in a virtual ceremony held during the online edition of WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Asia conference, and presented by veteran BBC, CNBC and Al-Jazeera news presenter, Teymoor Nabili, who is Mehr

More than 120 newsrooms across the world will mark World News Day 2020 on Monday 28 September

More than 120 newsrooms across the world will mark World News Day 2020 on Monday 28 September, highlighting the critical role that journalism and professional newsrooms play in helping citizens make sense of the world. World News Day is an initiative Mehr

Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Colombian Journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima

The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has been awarded to Colombian journalist, Jineth Bedoya Lima. The award, made virtually due to current COVID-19 restrictions, recognises “Ms Bedoya Lima’s Mehr

Winners announced for the African Digital Media Awards 2020

The winners of the WAN-IFRA African Digital Media Awards were announced on Tuesday, 8 September 2020, during the Digital Media Africa virtual conference.  The annual African Digital Media Awards are the most prestigious digital news awards on the African continent, presented Mehr

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

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. Mary Mbewe has had a Mehr

WAN-IFRA Women in News Leadership Accelerator launches in Vietnam

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 Mehr

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

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 Mehr

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

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 Mehr