AIB media industry news desk
Voyager Media Awards Recognise RNZ Journalism
RNZ excellence in journalism has been recognised at the prestigious Voyager Media Awards announced on 22 May 2020. The annual awards celebrate the...
United Nations launches global initiative to combat misinformation
The United Nations has launched ‘Verified’, an initiative to combat the growing scourge of COVID-19 misinformation by increasing the volume and...
BBC publishes Annual Plan and registers record-breaking performance
The BBC’s Annual Plan published today reveals people across the UK have turned to the broadcaster in record numbers as a source of news,...
MBC Group in world’s Top 20 media companies with 2.5bn social video views in 4/2020
Achieving yet another milestone, MBC Group has entered the Top 20 leaderboard for social media video views, as per Tubular Labs’ latest released...
Beating the virus – how broadcast production has responded
As the global pandemic continues, broadcasters and production companies have had to find new ways of working to ensure that programmes can still be...
UN SDG Media Compact reaches 100 members
Growing alliance of news and entertainment companies brings focus on socio-economic impact of COVID-19 crisis to its two-billion-strong audience The...
IBC 2020 joins roster of cancelled media events
International trade show and conference becomes latest casualty of COVID-19 The IBC media industry show has been cancelled. In a message to the...
Yemen: Over 150 NGOs appeal for overturning of journalist death sentences
More than 150 human rights NGOs have signed a letter calling for the death sentences imposed on four Yemeni journalists to be rescinded. This is the...
Why freedom abroad affects us all
The CEO and Director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Grant Turner, has written about the importance of the work of USAGM broadcasters...