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WAN-IFRA launches gaming tool NewsArcade with six-month free trial.

WAN-IFRA launches gaming tool NewsArcade with six-month free trial. WAN-IFRA, working with a consortium of international partners, announced... read more

04.11.2024 • By WAN-IFRA

Krakow to host WAN-IFRA's 76th World News Media Congress in 2025.

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will hold its 76th World News Media Congress in Krakow, Poland, from 4 to 6 May 2025 . The... read more

28.10.2024 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA announces major partnership with Norwegian Ministry of Foreign...

WAN-IFRA will expand its media freedom activities in 7 countries throughout East Central Africa and Southeast Asia, thanks to a 2-year renewed... read more

19.04.2021 • By WAN-IFRA

Jordanian journalist Etaf Roudan named Editorial Leadership Award...

WAN-IFRA Women in News has named Etaf Roudan, director of Radio al-Balad in Jordan as its 2020 WIN Editorial Leadership Award Laureate for the... read more

03.11.2020 • By WAN-IFRA

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

The winners of the 2020 World Digital Media Awards have once again demonstrated a clear blueprint for successful news publishing: Powerful... read more

21.10.2020 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA postpones the World News Media Congress 2020.

WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, is postponing its World News Media Congress in Zaragoza, Spain. The Congress was initially... read more

06.04.2020 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA urges Pakistan to release immediately Mr. Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman,...

In a letter to Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum called for the immediate release of Mir... read more

05.04.2020 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA launches coronanewsroom.org, a resource desk for news media...

WAN-IFRA has published a dedicated resource site at coronanewsroom.org to share its members’ experiences, best-practice, crucial resources, and... read more

23.03.2020 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA announces biggest-ever 7 million Euro funding to support...

The 4-year grant from Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, will enable WAN-IFRA's Women in News programme to expand to... read more

12.12.2019 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-FRA joins Stars4Media, a new European programme for young media...

WAN-IFRA joins Stars4Media.eu, an exchange programme for young media professionals to boost media innovation and cross-border cooperation in... read more

29.11.2019 • By WAN-IFRA

Middle Eastern Digital Media Awards winners honoured in Dubai.

The winners of the WAN-IFRA's 2019 Middle Eastern Digital Media Awards were celebrated during a ceremony at the end of the first day of the 14th... read more

07.03.2019 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA announces the election of new Vice President.

During its General Assembly of Members held in Amsterdam on 13th December, WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers,... read more

17.12.2018 • By WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA joins Audience Measurement Coalition to support EU ePrivacy...

WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, joins forces with a group of leading associations representing the... read more

13.07.2017 • By WAN-IFRA

World’s Press Calls for Renewed Solidarity in the Wake of Threats to...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), meeting in Durban, South Africa on 7th June 2017 ahead of the... read more

07.06.2017 • By WAN-IFRA

World’s Press Calls on President Trump to Stop Targeting Media

International media leaders have signalled their deep concern with the US administration’s persistent attacks on the press by calling on US... read more

27.03.2017 • By WAN-IFRA

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