Andrea Miranda is the Group Editorial Director of Debate Media, a Mexican news organisation she co-founded 20 years ago. She oversees a portfolio of 32 digital brands, six printed newspaper editions and many magazines and commercial supplements. A vocal defender of freedom of expression and protection of journalists, her road to journalism was unusual: Miranda studied photography and industrial engineering: “It was photography that brought me to a newsroom in 2004,” she said. She shared with the World Editors Forum what it is like to lead a newsroom of 180 journalists in such a violent region ..read more

By WAN-IFRA Women in News Team The round table discussions took place in Amman, Jordan, against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, and underscored the urgent need to address the challenges faced by journalists – particularly women – as the pursuit of truth takes them to the frontlines of danger to bring critical stories to light.  War reporting plays a crucial role in shaping public understanding and policy responses to conflict. Leaders from more than 100 news organisations had in the past week signed an open letter, initiated by CPJ and supported by WAN-IFRA, in support of Palestinian jou ..read more

Andrea Miranda es la Directora Editorial del Grupo Debate, una organización de noticias mexicana que cofundó hace 20 años. Supervisa una cartera de 32 marcas digitales, seis ediciones impresas de periódicos y numerosas revistas y suplementos comerciales. Defensora a ultranza de la libertad de expresión y la protección de los periodistas, su camino hacia el periodismo fue inusual, Miranda estudió fotografía e ingeniería industrial: “Fue la fotografía lo que me llevó a una redacción en 2004”, dijo. Compartió con el World Editors Forum cómo es dirigir una redacción de 180 periodistas en una regi ..read more

In 2020, the Financial Times (FT) had no environmental sustainability strategy. This, despite its position as a publisher, with over 22.4 million monthly readers, “holding other companies to account,” explains Hannah Sarney, the FT’s new Editorial Product Director. Today, the company not only has a clear strategy outlined on its website, it boasts both an internal environmental group, and an environmental sustainability umbrella group. This is only one of the many internal shifts within the 135-year-old publisher over the past three years that can be attributed to the work of the Next Gen Boar ..read more

The announcement was made at a leadership development workshop organised by WAN-IFRA LATAM on 30 October in the Colombian city of Bogotá. The leadership accelerator is aimed at women media professionals. Those selected will acquire new skills through group training and coaching sessions to develop their professional roadmap. The 30 media professionals, selected from among 115 applicants, who are developing their careers in the media in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, were there. “WAN-IFRA is pleas ..read more

Thursday, 2 November is the designated day to remind people everywhere of the need to end impunity for crimes committed against journalists. The global impunity index currently stands at 86%, and an ever growing number of high profile cases remain unsolved, or in limbo.   Martha Ramos, Chief Editorial Officer of Organizacion Editorial Mexicana (OEM) and President of the World Editors Forum, has a front row seat watching the failures to get justice.   “Attacks against journalists have become normalised and, to a certain extent, made invisible; such acts don’t seem to worry the so ..read more

“WAN-IFRA is honoured to approach our 10th year of partnership with the Foreign Ministry”, said Melanie Walker, Executive Director for Media Development & Women in News. “The mentoring exchange initiative between Norwegian editors and our programme media partners recognises the value of peer support from within the industry to tackle shared issues and to learn from each other about how to build financially healthier and more inclusive newsrooms. We could not have achieved this without our partner MBL, whose active support was essential to recruit the more than 10 Norwegian editors contribu ..read more

Nearly three quarters (73%) of 714 international female journalists surveyed in late 2020 said that they had experienced online violence in the course of their work – and 20% of them indicated that they had experienced offline attacks and abuse that they believed had been seeded online. This, according to research published by UNESCO and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), which also found that: “Women journalists are both the primary targets of online violence and the first responders to it.” Now, guidelines, tools and resources to monitor, record and address these actions are ou ..read more

By Pius Muteekani Katunzi Managing Director/Editor of The Observer in Uganda Media organisations across the world are grappling with an evolving landscape brought on by shifts in content consumption, increased competition for advertising revenue and the aftershocks of a pandemic. In June I travelled to Zambia where I met key figures from Zambian media. I picked up crucial insights, valuable not only for my organisation but also for others navigating Africa’s media landscape and embracing the digital transformation imperative. Diversify beyond traditional advertising Zambia’s media organisati ..read more

Did you know? The Women’s Euro 22 final was one of the three most-watched broadcasts in the United Kingdom last year – second only to the Queen’s Funeral Service, and topping her Platinum Jubilee. The tournament, which broke records for crowd attendance, was watched live by over 365 million people in 195 territories, and the final match attracted a cumulative live viewership of 50 million worldwide, across television, out-of-home viewing and streaming. “I watched that from my couch in France. And I wept not only because I was so excited that my team had won but because I remember, growing up i ..read more