Media & Communication: Research Guide

Based on the evidence of lost income and an inability to pay essential living expenses, we anticipate a great need for support within our global network of news publishers and members. To support them during these challenging times, we have compiled a list of journalism emergency relief funds available both globally and regionally. This work is in progress but we hope that this preliminary mapping will help our global members community in the short term. Read more ...

Leading Swedish daily news publisher Dagens Nyheter (DN) has seen sharp increases in registered users and digital subscribers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more ...

As part of a wide-ranging analysis of its content, Norwegian publisher Amedia discovered that better representation of women in stories seems to correlate with higher readership among that same demographic. Read more ...

During a WAN-IFRA webinar last week, Rainer Kirschke, Marketing Manager Newspaper, Agfa, and Menno Jansen, Chairman and Founder, Q.I. Press Controls, discussed how their companies have been addressing the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more ...

In this op-ed, endorsed by the Board of the World Editors Forum (WEF), Warren Fernandez warns of wrenching changes to come and urges urgent action to minimise damage to the media, and democracy. Read more ...

Although the World Health Organisation has declared that newspapers are safe to touch during the COVID-19 pandemic, one Sri Lankan publisher took their precautions a step further to ensure readers of the safety of their newspapers. Read more ...

In between editing and the production of our latest Trends in Newsrooms report: Amplifying Women's Voices, Covid-19 happened. Read more ...

Three editors on the frontline of covering the COVID-19 pandemic joined Fergus Bell, CEO of fathm, in a WAN-IFRA webinar to share insights into how to improve the quality of coverage and distance journalism from the sea of misinformation. Read more ...

The severeity of the Covid-19 pandemic means the annual WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, initially scheduled for June, has been postponed and will now take place from 17-19 September in Zaragoza, Spain. Read more ...

The COVID-19 crisis has forced newspaper publishers to make changes to how they operate their print production. Most have adopted preventive measures to ensure continuous production and distribution of newspapers Read more ...

Mutuma Mathiu, Editorial Director of Nation Media Group in Kenya used a face mask for the first time in his life last week. Now he has to run in one and wear it at all times in public to protect himself and set an example for others. He gives insight to the impact of Covid-19 on life in Kenya and on the media. Read more ...

The Hindu Group (THG), a 141-year-old brand, was the first English-language Indian newspaper to go digital in 1995. Armed with a critical mass of online readers and a user-friendly online payment infrastructure, the company implemented a soft paywall in February 2019, and a metered one in October. Read more ...

In addition to their massive COVID-19 coverage efforts, news publishers are seeing the current crisis as an opportunity to drive subscriptions, in different ways. In this article, written before the crisis, Nikolay Malyarov, CEO & Chief Content Officer at PressReader, examines how developing habits in readers can lead to greater subscriber retention. Read more ...

For The Globe and Mail’s Editor in Chief, David Walmsley, the newsroom of the future is one where journalists can focus on finding and telling great stories. With Sophi, its homegrown AI system, the Globe is on its way to making that happen. Read more ...

Despite rumours of printed newspapers being a carrier of COVID-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently confirmed that newspapers are safe to read during the pandemic. Read more ...

Answer their tough questions without scaring them to death, let them participate and lighten up, suggests Aralynn Abare McMane. Read more ...

Journalists, now on one of the wildest journeys of their careers, need to cover it all, writes Javier Garza from Mexico City. Read more ...

"In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity..." Right? The Dallas Morning News in the US is taking that to heart with the COVID-19 pandemic. “This may be the best chance we’ve ever had to articulate our value proposition,” said DMN's Chief Product Officer Mike Orren. Read more ...

Toyosi Ogunseye, who heads up the BBC's West Africa language services and is also Deputy President of the World Editors Forum, shares the tension in keeping people informed and making sure staff stay safe. Read more ...

Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo, President of the Spanish media house Henneo and the President of WAN-IFRA, contributed this article about the fundamental role of a free press in an uncertain world, which has been widely published by newspapers in Spain. Read more ...

We are only at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, but if we are to overcome it, we need to continue to uphold our values of solidarity and empathy, writes Catarina Carvalho, Executive Editor at Diário de Notícias in Portugal. Read more ...

There is good news for news publishers: Contrary to rumor, it is extremely unlikely that readers will catch the coronavirus from printed newspapers, and the newsprint supply chain remains in good shape. Those were the two main points emerging from last Wednesday's WAN-IFRA Webinar with Dr. Rick Stunt, Group Paper Director at dmg-Media in London. Read more ... Video

En el plazo de muy pocas semanas, el mundo entero se ha sumergido en una pesadilla inimaginable. Una epidemia global que ha provocado una psicosis colectiva sin precedentes y que aumenta día a día a través del miedo que provoca la incertidumbre sobre el presente y el futuro. Allegados y no allegados a nosotros que enferman y otros que por desgracia mueren. Los recuerdos de los encuentros con amigos y familiares quedan lejanos. El confinamiento multiplica la ansiedad. Una situación que parece no tener fin. Read more ...

Investigative journalist Blaž Zgaga has been targeted by a hate campaign fuelled by the Slovenian government on social networks and in the media since sending an official Freedom of Information Request on the COVID-19 pandemic to the authorities in Ljubljana. Read more ...

In a WAN-IFRA webinar on Thursday, Roger Renni, Director and Senior Security Consultant at Key Objectives, and Dr Kane Mortlock, Active Paramedic in State Emergency Support, Australia, and Key Objectives Instructor, offered expert advice for journalists working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more ...