World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Holds World News Day 2025
By Reporter
WAN-IFRA, World Editors Forum and other Global news organizations have concluded plans to celebrate the 2025 ‘World News Day’ on September 28, 2025. The event is a global awareness campaign to amplify the value of fact-based journalism.
According to a statement signed by Branko Brkic, Project Kontinuum, Co-organiser, World New Day 2025, publishers and editors are invited to participate and support the event. This year’s theme is: “Journalism Worth Doing is Journalism Worth Fighting For.”
The statement reads: “Times are not easy for the news media. Quite the opposite. Everywhere on planet earth, trust is becoming an endangered species.
“Journalism, trust’s most faithful messenger, is heavily targeted.
“Disinformation poisons our societies more effectively than any physical venom, and the damage will last for generations, eating away our shared reality and common values.
“But these are also the moments for which we, the news media, have been preparing our whole lives, where we show what we are made of—a sterner stuff.”
While urging Publishers and Editors to remain steadfast in defense of journalism, the organisers of the 2025 World News Day, reminds practitioners of their sacred responsibility to the society.
“Tough, scary, the most impecunious they may be – still, these are the best times to be a journalist.
“We are not easily frightened. We do not break. We do not lose our moral compass. But we do need to strengthen our collective voice.”
On the current danger facing News, the World Association of News Publishers and partners called on members to address the danger of AI in the manipulation of news.
“We must address the burning issues of our epoch, like the integrity of news in the age of AI, and diminishing access to public information—and plot our way forward—together.”
WAN-IFRA therefore called on editors, newsrooms and journalists everywhere to join the global event to mark the World News Day 2025 on 28 September. “It’s a global reminder of what’s at stake.
“A reminder that journalism still holds power to account, still amplifies underrepresented voices and, crucially, still helps people understand the world and their place in it.
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