The IPTC News Architecture Working Group is happy to announce that the NewsML-G2 Guidelines and NewsML-G2 Specification documents have been updated to align with version 2.33 of NewsML-G2, which was approved in October 2023. Read more...

Yesterday Nick Clegg, Meta's President of Global Affairs, announced that Meta would be using IPTC embedded photo metadata to label AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Read more...

As we wrap up 2023, we thought it would be useful to give an update you on the IPTC's work in 2023, including updates to most of our standards. Read more...

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The IPTC is happy to announce the latest version of our guidance for mapping between photo metadata standards. Read more...

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...