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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has welcomed a Pan-African Parliament resolution to protect media freedoms, calling it a tool for African governments to dismantle criminal defamation and 'insult' laws that remain widespread on the continent.

Newsroom leaders including Raju Narisetti of The Wall Street Journal (@rajunarisetti) and analyst Ken Doctor will convene online January 16 to discuss the news industry's future in a free, two-hour webinar hosted by World Editors Forum (WEF), the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) in the United States and the University of South Carolina College of Mass Communications and Information Studies.

The 2nd annual Victoires de la Presse Awards, which promote editorial and technological success in French language news media, were presented to 12 media companies from France, Morocco, Senegal and Canada in a ceremony in Lyon, France, on Monday.

This was the message received by the more than fifty participants attending the third annual WAN-IFRA Women in News Summit in Lusaka, Zambia, this week, which brought together women from the media industry in Botswana, Namibia and Zambia for a three-day event.

Renowned Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat, whose satirical drawings targeting corruption and lampooning dictators have been published worldwide, has been awarded the 2012 Gebran Tueni Award, the annual prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that honours an outstanding individual from the news media in the Arab region.

WAN-IFRA is organising a unique event in Lyons, France, on 17 December: Les Victoires de la Presse, an awards presentation ceremony and colloquium held to honour outstanding projects -- both editorial and technological -- in the French language news publishing industry.

Media executives from Cambodia, Egypt, Libya, Myanmar and Vietnam got together for the WAN-IFRA Media Professionals Programme year-end event in Kuala Lumpur this week for sessions on leadership and management, how to develop a solid media business and women in leadership.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today published the 2012 edition of World Press Trends, its annual report on the state of the global newspaper industry.

More than 100 participants from 25 countries attending this week's African Editors Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, heard how the Declaration of Table Mountain campaign and a complimentary initiative led by African Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Pansy Tlakula, are encouraging heads of state to repeal criminal speech laws and lift restrictions on a free press.

Singapore Press Holdings, Kompas, NDTV, South China Morning Post, Star Publications and Al Bayan were among the winners of the 3rd annual Asian Digital Media Awards presented tonight (28 November) in a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

Using newspapers in class is an old idea that's getting a new shine around the world in programmes assisted by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), which is promoting news literacy and helping students better understand how news is made and why.