Who gets to crawl? As generative AI reshapes how information is discovered, retrieved, and reused, publishers are increasingly examining who can access their content, under what conditions, and for what purpose. On 30 June, join WAN-IFRA for a conversation with Sam Else, Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships: Media, Creators & AI at Cloudflare. Drawing on Cloudflare's view across the web, Sam will discuss: • How AI crawlers, bots, search engines, and emerging agents are interacting with publisher sites • What Cloudflare is observing about evolving AI crawler behaviour • Publisher control mechanisms, including bot blocking and AI crawler management • Emerging developments such as content signals, pay-per-crawl experiments, and machine-readable rights Moderated by Ezra Eeman and Kevin Anderson, FRSA, this session will explore how publishers can better understand the changing infrastructure surrounding AI access to content. 📅 30 June 2026 🕔 17:00 CEST | 11:00 EDT | 08:00 PDT 📍 Live on Zoom Register here: https://lnkd.in/eZykdcZx #AIinMedia #Publishing #Journalism #GenerativeAI #MediaInnovation
WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers
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The World Association of News Publishers
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WHO WE ARE - WAN-IFRA is the World Association of News Publishers. Our mission is to protect the rights of journalists and publishers around the world to operate independent media. We provide our members with expertise and services to innovate and prosper in a digital world and perform their crucial role in society. With formal representative status at the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, it derives its authority from its global network of leading news publishing companies and technology entrepreneurs, and its legitimacy from its 80 national association members representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries. WHAT WE DO - We believe that business sustainability enhanced by a culture for innovation is the best guarantee for publishers to play their pillar role to advance freedom of expression in open societies. This has been a guiding principle of WAN-IFRA for seven decades of global advocacy and development work. Our mission is twofold. We deliver operational services to our individual members, be it to share knowledge on best practices, solutions to develop their organisation and business or to connect with expertise that helps them find the best solution to prosper in a digital world. We also represent our members as a global trade organisation with human rights mandate, advocating to protect the rights of journalists across the world to operate free media, coaching news media professionals in fragile states with our media development programmes.
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- Édition de journaux
- Taille de l’entreprise
- 51-200 employés
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- Frankfurt am Main
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- Non lucratif
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- News Media, Digital Media, Editorial Management, Newspaper Production, Media Freedom, News Literacy, Global Media Policy, Media Development, Training, Research and Innovation, Consulting, Business and technology News and Insights, journalism, free press, press freedom et gender equality
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Last week, I was lucky to spend time with a huge array of different people from different business and with different disciplines - all seeking ways to create content and journalism that can flourish as the media evolves at speed. I took huge energy and inspiration listening to all the creativity and commitment on display - as well as taking in all the passionate discussions around what is and isn't the right path forward. On Monday, I hosted the first day of the WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers World News Media Congress in Marseille. It was a vast event with over a thousand people from news publishers from all around the world. They included New York Times' publisher A.G. Salzberger who delivered the keynote address, and Katharine Viner and Phil Chetwynd of The Guardian and AFP respectively. (I was also invited to DJ at the evening event which made for unlikely end to the day. Not sure if Culture Shock, Danny Byrd and DJ Patiffe was what people were expecting but it seemed to go OK!) On Tuesday, I honoured to be part of UCL's 'Great Debate' as it marks its 200th anniversary. The subject was disinformation and Meera Selva, Oli Dugmore and Sophia Smith Galer were my fellow panellists. On Wednesday, it was The Media Show, and, along with my co-host Katie Razzall, we had an extended conversation with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about her work as a political journalist and how it's evolved during her career. On Thursday, I attended MHP Group's 30 to Watch Awards and absolutely loved it. The standard of journalism from the winners was remarkable. I was there to present the Disinformation Award which went to my brilliant BBC Verify colleague Matt Murphy. (On Friday, it was head down on a video we're making about the World Cup.) There's no one correct way for the news business to respond to the era we're living through. But whichever route it chooses, it will require an ongoing commitment to the purpose of journalism and to finding new ways of making and distributing it. Being in the company of so many people who share that commitment was reassuring and energising in equal measure. Many thanks to WAN-IFRA, UCL and MHP for the invitations -and, of course, to my BBC colleagues too. I took so much from each day of the week.
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The official Marseille Congress wrap-up video is here! 🎬 Spot yourself or a familiar face? Tag them in the comments! 👇 We'll be honest – Marseille was electric. Over 1,300 global news media leaders gathered for the Congress last week and the conversations, announcements, and moments that unfolded were among some of the very best we've seen in years. 📸 Full event photo gallery: https://lnkd.in/dS2xEExF Share your favourite moments with #WNMC26 and tag us! Thank you for making Marseille unforgettable. Next year, we gather in Stockholm 🇸🇪 in June. Sign up to our newsletter for updates on dates, venue and registration details, which will be announced in the coming months. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dEFUP7T9 Huge thank-you to our amazing videographer Soilhat SAID OMAR! Audiencers The Media Leader FR La Tribune Evénements The Media Stack GESTE Alliance de la presse d'information générale Les Clés De La Presse #WorldNewsMediaCongress #MediaGathering #MediaLeaders #FutureOfJournalism #AIInMedia #NewsRevenue #Newsroom #Marseille
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It is always a little difficult to come down from the adrenaline rush of organising an event like the World News Media Congress #WNMC Spending a couple of days in Paris with a small group of international media executives (apologies to those we could not accommodate!) was a wonderful way to land gently, visiting friends of WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, French media groups doing truly remarkable work. A special thank you to all of them. Many had just attended our Congress in Marseille. They must have been exhausted, but you would never have guessed it. Their enthusiasm, generosity and willingness to share their experiences were absolutely intact. Thank you for opening your doors to us 🙏 🙏 Le Monde (Elisabeth, Martin, Simon, Lou, Anne, Flavia, Charles and Quentin 🤗 🎉 ) Le Figaro (Jean-Luc and Bertrand 🙌 ❤️ ) AFP The whole team - and yes, there’s always a bit of emotion in being welcomed into the heart of such a fantastic agency ❤️ Le Parisien Anne-Violette, Sophie, Stanislas, Sam, Marion, Aurélien 🌞 ❤️ (special thanks to Sophie 😎 ) Les Echos Bérénice, Julien, Benoît, Fabien, Pierre 💯 ❤️ Contexte Jean-Christophe, Clémentine, Marie-Catherine, David, Clovis and Sacha 🙌 🤩 #WNMC26 #WANIFRA #NewsMedia #MediaLeadership #MediaInnovation
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How can publishers make smarter paywall decisions? Join WAN-IFRA’s live Data Science Expert Webinar on 23 June 2026, moderated by Prof. Dr. Ana Moya and featuring Janith Weerasinghe, Senior Data Scientist at The Washington Post. The session will cover how The Washington Post moved from rule-based metering to reinforcement learning for paywall decisioning. Register for the live session now: https://lnkd.in/e_N-2NK7
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How do you keep up with a flood of municipal documents, spot the real stories, and still have time to report them – especially in a 22-person newsroom competing with a larger local rival? In this WAN IFRA Innovate Local webinar, you’ll hear how Mediehuset iTromsøø in northern Norway built “DJINN”, a data‑gathering tool that automatically scans public sources, flags story leads and now powers deeper, AI‑supported local investigations. Date: 17 June 2026 Time: 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT Format: Live Zoom session ➡️ Register for live session: https://lnkd.in/dzyAhVBF Speaker: Rune Ytreberg, Data Editor at Mediehuset iTromsø, Norway Moderator: Cecilia Campbell, Innovate Local Programme Editor, WAN-IFRA Sweden
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🤝 𝗪𝗔𝗡-𝗜𝗙𝗥𝗔 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗣𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Today, the SPUR Coalition (Standards for Publishers Usage Rights) announced at WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress the major expansion of 30 new members joining from across the new media industry, including 𝗪𝗔𝗡-𝗜𝗙𝗥𝗔 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿. The announcement marks the most significant moment in the coalition's growth since its public launch at the end of February, and signals that publisher-led action on AI is consolidating into a coordinated, international movement. SPUR is working to build a fair and transparent, well-functioning, AI licensing market for trusted journalism. As a strategic partner, WAN-IFRA joins the coalition as an affiliate member. “We are doing this to help ensure that publishers have a collective voice in discussions about content protection, transparency, licensing and fair value exchange in the AI era,” said