#WNMC24: Insights, ideas from World News Media Congress

Our Hashtag of the Week highlights tweets shared on X and Quotes from the World Association of Newspapers’ 75^th congress held 27^th – 29^th in Denmark.

“I encourage my fellow women in the media industry not to be discouraged no matter what they are going through, instead, fortify themselves and be their sisters’ keeper so they have the support network required.” Beatrice Bandawe WIN Editorial Leadership Award Laureate #WNMC24

“A journalist is a person who is willing to destroy his own opinions with facts” @PostBaron says in conversation with @MitaliLive, quoting Sebastian Junger, stresses necessity of editors and reporters relentlessly challenging their own assumptions, hypotheses, world-views #WNMC24

“We are journalists, not activists. And our main mission is to maintain the credibility of the press” Carlos Chamorro@cefeche says receiving the Golden Pen of Freedom. “When the rule of the law has collapsed, we only depend on our audiences to defend journalism” #WNMC24

“Only the quality of our journalism can defend us” Carlos Chamorro

When lies, laced with fear, anger & hate, spread fastest on the distribution systems of information, we all lose – Maria Ressa #WNMC24

“Distance is not an issue for collaboration, but building the right framework is important,” says Luciano Morganti, Stars4Media Project Coordinator, of the nearly 70 projects that have taken part in Stars4Media in the past 4 years, #WNMC24

On AI Actors & journalism @mariaressa told the #WNMC24:

“They are killing our world and turning it upside down for profit.” Technology doesn’t care about quality, about ethics, about facts… We don’t have to swim in that ocean – we can actually recreate it.”

The role of the newspaper is to reliably inform, frankly discuss, and maintain a sense of community within society. But the press must also work to strengthen a worldwide peace based on justice.” @orskov kicks off #WNMC24 quoting @NewspaperWorld first vicepresident, Albert Bayet

“Let’s learn from one another” Ladina Heimgartner, new @NewspaperWorld President (first woman to hold the office) says, calls for “unconditional willingness to adapt our products to our users’ needs”. She tells assembled news publishers: “we can’t stop the world changing” #WNMC24

I believe content + distribution creates the experience, but you also need to be a brand that people can really relate to, so you need personality and buzz,” says Tav Klitgaard, CEO of Zetland, Denmark, during the Stars4Media session at #WNMC24 in Copenhagen.

Climate journalism is a space where we have covered some ground says @rasmus_kleis. It is no longer ‘someone else’s problem somewhere else’. However, mainstream news needs to stop working so hard on things that don’t matter to me and start thinking about things that do. #WNMC24

OUOTES

“It’s important to understand the product-driven growth is really a means to an end. It’s a tool in a toolkit. It’s not a strategy itself. The strategy itself is all around elevating editorial independence, elevating journalism and then of course, we’ve done a lot of research on our audiences and markets and have now a whole suite of products that allow us to meet the lifestyle needs – not just the news needs – of our audience. Games is a really good example of this in our portfolio,” – Emily Withrow, VP of Product and Head of Subscriber Experiences at The New York Times.

7 News values that matter for Gen Z

Educational – show us news that helps us learn and understand more about relevant topics
Empowering – show us news that encourages us and provides tools to take action based on informed decisions
G-local – show us how global events impact us locally and vice versa
Human – show us diverse representation through personal experiences, that evoke empathy, compassion and inspiration
Impactful – show us events that affect numerous people and influence us or those involved
Objective – show us fact-based news, unbiased and from different perspectives
Timely – show us current news and prioritize ongoing events