IPTC standards took centre stage in Riyadh recently as industry leaders gathered to discuss the future of the media and news technology. Invited to participate in the Saudi Media Forum (February 2–4, 2026), the IPTC focused on critical topics including AI opt-out guidelines and media provenance. Read more...

2025 saw the success of several content and media provenance events: the Media Provenance Workshop in Paris (co-organised by AFP, the BBC and Media Cluster Norway), the Content Authenticity Summit in New York (co-organised by the Content Authenticity Initiative, C2PA and IPTC) and the Media Provenance Summit in Bergen, Norway (co-organised by Media Cluster Norway, the BBC, the EBU and IPTC). Read more...

IPTC's Managing Director Brendan Quinn spoke at the event Breaking the News? Global perspectives on the future of journalism in the age of AI in Berlin on Wednesday 28th January, an event organised by Deutsche Welle Akademie, an arm of IPTC member Deutsche Welle. Read more...

Defining the boundary between authentic news and synthetic content has never been more critical. In 2025, IPTC didn’t just participate in that conversation—we led it. Read more...

The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group has released version 2025.1 of the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard, including properties that can be used for AI-generated content. Read more...

The IPTC News in JSON Working Group today released the latest in each version of the ninjs: 3.2, 2.3 and 1.7. Read more...

The IPTC Video Metadata Working Group is happy to announce that version 1.7 of its flagship standard, Video Metadata Hub, has now been released. Read more...

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