The digital transformation of newsrooms has entered a new phase: Reader Centric. As news audiences move online, and revenue sources of news organisations get disrupted, companies need to accelerate their transformation. Newsrooms need to be at the forefront of changes.

In this new world, newsroom leaders must understand the roots of disruption and ways to transform their news organisations. They need to develop new editorial visions, find ways to engage their current and new audiences, and re-organise their newsrooms to deliver on new strategies.

Amid a Covid-19 pandemic that has crippled global economies and is threatening the future of the media industry, 10 news media companies from six Asian cities are embarking on this inaugural WAN-IFRA programme led by well-known media researchers and trainers, Grzegorz Piechota and George Brock.