At the IPTC Autumn Meeting in Toronto in 2018, IPTC considered the issues of "trust and credibility" in news media. We looked at the existing initiatives and considered whether IPTC could contribute to the space. Read more...

In late February we pushed the latest update to Media Topics, IPTC's main controlled vocabulary for subject classification (also known as a taxonomy). Read more...

We were very much looking forward to our IPTC 2020 Spring Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, beautiful city on the Baltic Sea and home city of Brendan Quinn, Managing Director of IPTC. But unfortunately, circumstances mean that we can not hold the meeting in person this time. Read more...

We are pleased to announce that we have updated our popular Quick Guide to IPTC Photo Metadata and Google Images document to cover the planned updates to Google Image search that we announced last week. Read more...

We are excited to announce that the result of our latest collaboration with Google has been launched in a beta phase: Licensable Images. Read more...

Following many change requests submitted by news organisations all over the world, the IPTC News in JSON Working Group is happy to announce the 1.2 version of its standard ninjs. Read more...

At the IPTC Meeting in Ljubljana Slovenia in Autumn 2019, we welcomed several new faces to IPTC working groups, the Board and voted in a new Chair! Read more...

Rights-related photo metadata can now be accessed directly in Google Image Search results, thanks to a joint effort by IPTC, Google and CEPIC, the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies. Read more...

The International Press Telecommunications Council is happy to announce that RightsML, IPTC’s Rights Expression Language for the media industry, has been updated to version 2.0. Read more...

As announced in late April, Brendan Quinn is succeeding Michael Steidl in the position of Managing Director of IPTC in June 2018. Read more...