Blog Post

Scroll, a 20-person Indian newsroom, is rebuilding its platform into a three-layer trusted workspace – one designed to give academics and researchers a personalised, comprehensive, and accountable environment for engaging with news. https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/how-indias-scroll-is-building-a-trusted-workspace-for-the-age-of-personal-ai/

Nine months of interviews and research into AI evaluations have led USA Today’s Jessica Davis to a blunt conclusion: the human-in-the-loop model isn’t scaling, and intuition isn’t a substitute for data. https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/stop-guessing-start-measuring-usa-today-on-ai-in-the-newsroom/

AI is helping The Hindu solve a challenge facing many publishers: getting readers to discover more of the journalism they already produce. By using AI to improve content discovery, personalisation and accessibility, the publisher is driving engagement and strengthening subscription value. https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/how-the-hindu-is-using-ai-to-boost-content-visibility-and-subscriptions/

The Norwegian publisher’s app, VGX, is a radical reimagining of the traditional news product. Functioning as an agile “speedboat,” the project experiments with new formats without risking the core brand, serving as a testing ground to future-proof VG’s legacy website and app. https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/inside-vgs-speedboat-strategy-to-outpace-ai-and-rethink-legacy-news-products/

“Some tech leaders will portray my comments today as anti-AI. As defending the old status quo. As yet another ossified institution lashing out at the innovators who are driving the forward march of progress.” – A.G. Sulzberger https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/nyts-sulzberger-condemns-ai-giants-for-brazen-theft-of-intellectual-property/

When the likes of Prisa Media, the world’s largest Spanish-language media group, deliberately puts the brakes on rolling out its AI development programme, it’s worth knowing why. Olalla Novoa Ojea, Head of AI at Prisa, explained why building governance into the system took priority over speed of rollout; all in the name of trust. https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/with-trust-on-the-line-prisa-media-prioritises-diligent-ai-governance-over-speedy-rollouts/