18 Dec 2025 Inclusive communication for Christmas and in the New Year
Being seen and heard means having a voice in shaping your future and that of your community and society. In a world where too many are invisible and too many voices...
15 Dec 2025 How far are we on the path to a people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society?
After all, that is the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), whose +20 outcomes will be finalized by UN member states this week (December 16–17). Both at...
12 Dec 2025 WACC Europe discussion highlights urgent need for fundamental change in news media representation of women
Despite decades of advancement in education, politics, and economic participation, women remain dramatically underrepresented in European news media, according to findings from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2025 presented...
12 Dec 2025 A grassroots approach to climate information integrity: Empowering local voices as key actors post-COP 30
Between 10 and 21 November, a delegation of 15 WACC-supported community media reporters and activists from across the Amazon region were in Belem, Brazil, to cover the 30th United Nations...
12 Dec 2025 Information is humanitarian aid
WACC General Secretary Philip Lee reports from the latest meeting of the CDAC Network, a global alliance of organisations working to ensure people can access safe, trustworthy information and communicate...
11 Dec 2025 GMMP 2025: Global Report launch initiates strategic re-think to drive gender equality in the news
With progress towards media gender parity on a plateau, women’s rights advocates are taking time to pause, reflect, and innovate. Gender equality in the global news media is at a crossroads...
03 Dec 2025 Launch of GMMP 2025 Global Report to present landmark 30-year findings of monitoring gender in the news
Who makes the news in 2025? What progress has been made towards gender equality in and through the media over the past three decades? Given the evidence, what critical shifts...
01 Dec 2025 WACC Europe board convenes with focus on digital justice
WACC Europe’s board reaffirmed that advancing digital justice – including responsible AI – and tackling rising polarization will stay at the forefront of its agenda, following its hybrid meeting last...
01 Dec 2025 Subjugating news and information to partisan interests
In 1960s Britain it was common for travelling salesmen (hardly ever women) to go from door to door selling subscriptions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Twenty-four volumes whose cost could be...
28 Nov 2025 Latest Media Development focuses on civil society foundation for digital governance
“Civic space enables civil society to play a role in political, economic and social life,” Media Development editor Philip Lee writes in “Integrity and Trust Underpin the Digital Sphere,” the...