World News Media Congress
Study Tour
Paris | 4-5 June, 2026
After an inspiring exchange at the World News Media Congress, complement your visit with a Study Tour in Paris on 4 and 5 June 2026. We will travel together to Paris to step inside leading French Newsrooms to gain first-hand insights into the most impactful projects influencing France’s media landscape.
Take the opportunity to engage directly with the innovators in charge of transforming the newsroom operations daily. We will hear about the latest trends on digital transformation, video strategies, AI and more. Below you will find information on our confirmed visits.
This study tour is strictly publisher-to-publisher – offering real, unfiltered exchanges and insider takeaways you won’t get anywhere else. Separate registration is required.
We will add more to the programme, so be sure to check back for updates!
Please contact Virginia Melero at virginia.melero@wan-ifra.org to register.
Registration Fee
The fee includes train travel from Marseille to Paris, 2 nights accommodation in Paris, lunches, welcome dinner, transportation in Paris and all visits to the publishers. Seats are filling fast – book yours now!
Programme Outline
📅 4 June 2026
Le Monde Group is one of Europe’s leading news media groups. It brings together newspapers, magazines and their digital extensions (websites, magazines and apps) published by the Société éditrice du journal Le Monde (SEM), as well as Télérama, Courrier international, Malesherbes Publications, Le HuffPost (85% stake) and Le Monde diplomatique (51% stake). Le Monde Group employs nearly 1,000 journalists, including a unique network of foreign correspondents. Its titles cover international news, business, culture and politics, and share the same core values: rigour, truth, humanity and independence.
Le Figaro Group brings together a portfolio of leading media brands, including Le Figaro, Le Figaro Magazine, Madame Figaro, Gala, Le Particulier, Le Journal des Femmes, L’Internaute, Le Journal du Net, CCM, La Chaîne Météo and PhonAndroid. The group informs, inspires and entertains through its full range of channels: newspapers, magazines, websites, apps, social media, podcasts, video, TV channels and DAB radio, as well as books and events.
📅 5 June 2026
As LVMH’s media subsidiary, Les Echos–Le Parisien Group is organised into five divisions. During our visit, participants will focus on the group’s digital channels, as well as its video strategy and AI development.
Le Parisien division
Centred on the general-interest daily newspapers Le Parisien and Aujourd’hui en France, as well as their weekly magazine Le Parisien Week-End.
Les Echos division
Built around the economic, financial and political daily Les Echos, the magazine Les Echos Week-End, and the luxury magazine Série Limitée.
Thematic division
Includes Investir, the stock-market news digital pure player Boursier.com, Mieux vivre votre argent, Capital Finance, Radio Classique, Mezzo and Medici.tv.
Partners division
Brings together “monetisation and new growth territories” activities, including the advertising sales house Les Echos–Le Parisien Médias, the events business Les Echos–Le Parisien Événements, as well as Dematis, Les Echos Études, Les Echos Publishing and Les Echos–Le Parisien Services.
Arts & History division
Groups art and heritage-focused brands and activities: Connaissance des Arts, In Fine, Citadelles & Mazenod, and Historia.
AFP (Agence France-Presse) is one of the world’s three major news agencies, and the only European one. Its mission is to provide rapid, comprehensive, impartial and verified coverage of the news and issues that shape our daily lives. With 2,600 employees of 100 different nationalities, AFP provides information in six languages - French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic - and in all media (text, photo, video, graphics and audio). During our visit we will meet with editorial staff to learn about their various strategies in video fact checking as well as their use of AI in their processes.