On 28 September 2026, more than 1,000 news organisations and support agencies across over 100 countries will mark World News Day, a global campaign that asks the public to know the facts, understand what matters, and choose trusted journalism, because it is their right to know.
World News Day was founded in 2018 with 17 participating organisations. Last year it reached more than 1,000 publishers across 108 countries and 17 languages.
This year’s campaign period runs from 25 September to 1 October, with 28 September as the focal day, coinciding with the United Nations’ International Day for Universal Access to Information.
Newsroom closures and shrinking budgets have weakened journalism worldwide, while AI-generated content and disinformation increasingly compete with real reporting for public attention.
No single newsroom can address that alone. World News Day brings more than 1,000 newsrooms together to make one collective case, and to do something journalism rarely does: explain its own process.
For one week, we invite participating outlets to show readers the work behind what they publish, giving the public something concrete to judge trust by. “News organisations are very good at telling other people’s stories. We have not always been equally good at telling our own,” said Stig Ørskov, CEO of WAN-IFRA, in urging media outlets to join World News Day 2026. “A society that loses its grip on facts loses its grip on itself. A society that fights for truth can still find its way back,” said Branko Brkic, founder of Project Kontinuum and co-organiser of World News Day. “Alone, any one of us can be dismissed.
Together, in dozens of languages and more than a hundred countries, we’re harder to ignore. That’s the whole point of doing this on the same day. Not a fundraiser. A rallying point.” World News Day is organised jointly by WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, and Project Kontinuum.
