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WAN-IFRA Partners with UNESCO to Offer News Literacy Training and Workshop

Tuesday 11. November 2025 - Through this collaboration with UNESCO, WAN-IFRA provides practical, high-impact training for news executives and editorial operations, helping news organisations make journalisms processes more visible, audience engagement more meaningful, and public trust more substantial.

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has announced a partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to deliver three complimentary trainings in celebration of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week, an annual event to raise awareness and celebrate the progress achieved towards Media and Information Literacy for all.

In an era of increasing mistrust, misinformation and media avoidance, newsrooms must equip themselves with strategies that reinforce credibility, transparency and civic value.

Key training dates and formats
The programme consists of two free online training sessions and one in-person workshop, hosted at WAN-IFRA’s upcoming Newsroom Summit, held in Copenhagen on 18-19 November 2025.

Online session 1: 12 November 2025, 17:00 CET — “News Literacy in a Time of Distrust: What Journalists Can Do”. Designed to help newsrooms build trust via transparency and audience connection.

Online session 2: 25 November 2025, 17:00 CET — “From Policy to Strategy: Building Your News Literacy Roadmap”. Focuses on how to turn good intentions into newsroom-level news-literacy strategies.

In-person workshop (for Newsroom Summit attendees): 17 November 2025, 14:00-17:00 CET, at the premises of JP Politiken in Copenhagen, as part of the Newsroom Summit 2025 (18-19 November). Titled “Behind the Byline: Transparency and Truth in a Polarised Media Environment”.