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Image: From left to right: Regina Reyes, Faith Zaba, Diana Mokalled by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | September 29, 2022 The annual WIN Editorial Leadership Award recognises the exemplary contribution of an editor to her newsroom, and under her leadership, her media organisation’s contribution to society. 2022 Laureates were honoured at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress taking […]

by Vincent Peyrègne vincent.peyregne@wan-ifra.org | September 29, 2022 WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Worldwide are the news media industry’s only truly global digital media competition. To qualify for the worldwide competition, finalists first had to win at the regional level of our Digital Media Awards during this past year in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and

Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) conducted an online panel discussion titled ‘A Law that Worked for Citizens: Five Years of Right to Information in Sri Lanka’ on 26 September 2022 in commemoration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). The discussion was joined by an eminent group of panelists led by the

Application deadline: 26 September | Programme: Rural Poverty and Agriculture This is an opportunity provided by the Rural Poverty and Agriculture programme: Find out more  Reporting on Food Security and Rural Development in South Asia –  October 10th-13th Online Workshop  Food security is a growing global concern. Food prices are at historic highs. But what is being

Image:Reconstitution numérique du meurtre de Shireen Abu Akleh du point de vue du tireur. Photo tirée de la vidéo de l’enquête d’Al Haq et de Forensic Architecture. Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s family has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court asking it to investigate her killing in the West Bank last May. It

The Iranian government’s decision to restrict access to Instagram and WhatsApp – which had been circulating information about a wave of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody following her arrest by the morality police on 16 september – is an unprecedented attack on the right to news and information in

Main image: Lorenzo Zimmer (left) and Jonas Bleeser recording an episode of Schwäbisches Tagblatt’s crime podcast. Image credit: Ulrich Metz. In the beginning of 2022, the newspaper based in Tübingen in southwest Germany launched its first audio product, a podcast called “Am Gericht” (“At the courthouse”). The show looks at issues related to crime and

As the midterm elections loom, there’s a lot of talk about threats to democracy, and what to do about it. One recent poll even showed this as the issue of most concern to voters. News organizations have created teams to cover democracy as a beat. Possible stories abound, from the January 6 investigation, to gerrymandering and voter suppression,

More than 31,000 people to date have died due to gun violence in the U.S. in 2022 alone. During the same period, amost 17,000 people have died by suicide at the hands of guns, and there have been over 480 mass shootings — defined as the deaths of three or more people in a single shooting —

Agitation to break away from a nation is not uncommon — it happens across the world. In Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa, escalating conflicts resulting from separatist groups who desire independence for their regions or ethnic groups have resulted in violence. In Nigeria, separatists are known to bully, intimidate, harass and make death threats both online and through armed militias associated with