This week, 60+ media tech experts from across IPTC member organisations got together to discuss what happens when newsroom systems understand the story that is being reported, how information about journalistic sources can be tied to cryptographic provenance, and to agree on creation of two new working groups. Read more...

At the IPTC Autumn Meeting 2026, the IPTC NewsCodes Working Group announced a public beta test of a new CV (Controlled Vocabulary) server at cv-beta.iptc.org. Read more...

The IPTC Media Topics vocabulary tree browser. The NewsCodes Working Group is pleased to release the Q3 2026 update to our NewsCodes vocabularies. Read more...

Ukraine's public broadcaster explained why it signs its journalism, a Japanese broadcaster revealed it has been using C2PA in production for a year, and a room full of vendors showed that the tools are ready now. These are just a few of the highlights of yesterday's Media Provenance Summit in Tokyo. Read more...

The IPTC has launched Metawatch, a free, open monitor that checks every month whether more than 500 news publishers in 122 countries keep the credits, captions and rights information embedded in their photographs. Read more...

Following on from the successful Media Provenance Summit in Bergen on 22nd September, we are proud to be helping to organise the Media Provenance Summit Tokyo 2026, to be held on Tuesday 13th October. Read more...

Over 200 attendees from the cultural heritage and galleries/libraries/archives/museums sector heard from several members of IPTC working groups and friends of IPTC at the Archives and GenAI Symposium, organised by the Trust in Archives Initiative. Read more...

A technical paper presented at the IBC conference, entitled "A standardised framework for C2PA provenance in media workflows," is now available to the public. Read more...

Media provenance and authenticity experts from around the world gathered in Bergen, Norway on Tuesday September 22nd to collaborate on the future of digitally signed media, protecting publisher identity and using cryptographic provenance to ensure audience trust in media content. Read more...

Media Cluster Norway has announced the agenda for the 2026 Bergen Media Provenance Summit. Read more...