On Tuesday 12 November 2023, a group of news, journalism and media organisations released what they call the "Paris Charter on AI and Journalism." Created by 17 organisations brought together by Reporters sans frontières and chaired by journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, the Charter aims to give journalism organisations some guidelines that they can use to navigate the intersection of Artificial Intelligence systems and journalism. Read more...

The IPTC Sports Content Working Group is happy to announce the release of IPTC Sport Schema version 1.0. Read more...

Following the IPTC's recent announcement that Rights holders can exclude images from generative AI with IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2023.1 , the IPTC Video Metadata Working Group  is very happy to announce that the same capability now exists for video, through IPTC Video Metadata Hub version 1.5. Read more...

The IPTC NewsML-G2 Working Group and the News Architecture Working Group are happy to announce the release of the latest version of our flagship XML-based news syndication standard: NewsML-G2 v2.33. Read more...

Updated in June 2024 to include an image containing the new metadata property Read more...

Last week the IPTC held another very successful member meeting. The 2023 IPTC Autumn Meeting, held virtually this time, had well over 50 attendees from over 30 organisations in at least 15 different countries. Read more...

The IPTC News Codes Working Group has just released a new batch of changes to the IPTC NewsCodes family of controlled vocabularies. Read more...

The IPTC is pleased to announce the final agenda for next week's IPTC Autumn Meeting. Read more...

This weekend at the IBC broadcast industry event in Amsterdam, the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) will launch its news exchange network, ASBU Cloud, with IPTC's NewsML-G2 standard at its core. Read more...

The video recording of IPTC's presentation at the Sports Video Group Content Management Forum has now been released. Read more...