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WAN-IFRA announces the winners of the 2020 World Digital Media Awards.  

2020-10-21 The winners of the 2020 World Digital Media Awards have once again demonstrated a clear blueprint for successful news publishing: Powerful storytelling combined with content that is vital to the lives of consumers is essential in building profitable relationships with audiences. Read more ...

Global Press raises concerns over proposed tightened immigration rules limiting the stay of foreign journalists in the USA.

2020-10-20 The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced  a proposed rule to fix the stay period for students from abroad, exchange visitors and foreign journalists to improve national security. Specifically, the proposed rule seeks to remove the current framework that allows non immigrants, including representatives of foreign Information media, to remain in the United States for as long as they maintain compliance with the terms and conditions of their period required to complete their assignment, or employment. Read more ...

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

2020-10-19 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 now CEO and Publisher of Tech for Impact Asia. Read more ...

Five Prizes for Innovation Excellence Awarded to Young European Talent in News.

2020-10-15 The Stars4Media consortium presented yesterday the projects developed under its European exchange and training initiative for young news media professionals launched last Spring. More than 100 young news media professionals coming from 42 news organisations in 17 countries participated in the one-year long programme. Twenty-one projects were presented yesterday during a conference held in Brussels at Europe’s Media Lab, Fondation EURACTIV. Five teams were awarded for the outstanding quality of their work. Read more ...

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

2020-09-24 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 driven by the Canadian Journalism Foundation and the World Editors Forum, the network for editors within WAN-IFRA. It was initiated in Canada in 2018, and this is the first year it is being celebrated as one integrated global event. Read more ...

Indian Media Leaders eSummit: Leaders call for efforts to make the readers pay for the news they consume.

2020-09-23 The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) hosted the first virtual edition of the Indian Media Leaders eSummit on 21 and 22 September, with more than 500 news media executives registered from across South Asia. The summit brought together ideas on business transformation, future of news, structural changes in the Indian journalism revenue pattern. Among other topics, it addressed future business models, reader engagement and distributed newsrooms with the pandemic as the backdrop. The WAN-IFRA India 2020 - Printing Summit, India's popular annual event for technology and print production managers, follows the 'Indian Media Leaders eSummit' on 23-24 September.  Read more ...

New Board Leaders Take Office at WAN-IFRA’s Annual Meeting.

2020-09-22 WAN-IFRA is announcing today ten new members who will be serving on its Supervisory Board of Directors. They were elected the Association's Annual General Assembly of Members held on Wednesday 16 September. Four new members will be serving on its Executive Board of Directors and twenty-five Board Members were also reappointed for a new term of office at the same meeting. Read more ...

La periodista colombiana Jineth Bedoya Lima recibe la Pluma de Oro de la Libertad

2020-09-16 La periodista colombiana Jineth Bedoya Lima recibe la Pluma de Oro de la Libertad. La Pluma de Oro de la Libertad, el premio anual a la libertad de prensa de la Asociación Mundial de Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA), ha sido otorgada a la periodista colombiana Jineth Bedoya Lima. Read more ...

La periodista colombiana Jineth Bedoya Lima recibe la Pluma de Oro de la Libertad

2020-09-16 La periodista colombiana Jineth Bedoya Lima recibe la Pluma de Oro de la Libertad. La Pluma de Oro de la Libertad, el premio anual a la libertad de prensa de la Asociación Mundial de Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA), ha sido otorgada a la periodista colombiana Jineth Bedoya Lima. Read more ...

Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Colombian Journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima.

2020-09-16 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. Read more ...

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