WAN and the Newspaper Society of India today invited the world's press to attend the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum, to be held in Hyderabad, India, from 22 to 25 March 2009. More SUMMARIES FROM WEDNESDAY SESSIONS
O'REILLY RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WAN Gavin O'Reilly, the Chief Operating Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, has been re-elected President of the World Association of Newspapers for a third term of two years. English Français GLOBAL WARMING: A GROWING CONCERN FOR MEDIA The problem of global warming has emerged as an issue of concern for the world's newspapers, with calls at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by media industries. More Here's what they're saying at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum. SUMMARIES FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
NEW RESEARCH ON MEDIA HABITS OF YOUTH BREAKS STEREOTYPES A new study on the media habits of young people in three countries found that television continues to be the most important source of news and information for the young, despite the rise of the internet - and newspapers can win their attention as well. English Español Français Deutsch WORLD'S PRESS CRITICISES UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL The World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum has condemned the UN Human Rights Council's repeated efforts to undermine freedom of expression in the name of protecting religious sensibilities. English SUMMARIES FROM TUESDAY MORNING SESSIONS
NEWSPAPER FUTURE IS BRIGHT: WAN PRESIDENT Newspapers are well-placed to succeed in the modern media environment, and forecasters who predict the industry's decline are making "a profound mistake," the President of the World Association of Newspapers said today (Tuesday), making the case for a vibrant future for the newspaper industry. More JUST PUBLISHED: WORLD DIGITAL MEDIA TRENDS The digital platforms of newspaper companies are growing at double-digit rates world-wide, both in usage and revenue production, according to the World Digital Media Trends report unveiled at the World Newspaper Congress by the World Association of Newspapers. English Français SUMMARIES FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
WORLD PRESS TRENDS: NEWSPAPERS ARE A GROWTH BUSINESS Newspaper circulations world-wide rose 2.57 percent in 2007 while rapid growth of both free titles and on-line platforms is expanding the reach of newspapers everywhere, the World Association of Newspapers announced today (Monday). English Español Français Deutsch SUMMARIES OF PRESENTATIONS - OPENING CEREMONIES Summaries of presentations from opening ceremony of World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum. More WORLD'S PRESS GATHERS IN SWEDEN TO CELEBRATE PRINT & DIGITAL DEVELOPMENTS The 61st World Newspaper Congress and 15th World Editors Forum opened in Sweden today (Monday, 2 June) with recognition of Sweden's superb media example for the rest of the world - top-ranked digital developments combined with a deep love of print. More GOLDEN PEN OF FREEDOM AWARDED TO CHINESE JOURNALIST A Chinese journalist who went to prison for reporting on a health threat before Chinese authorities announced it has been awarded the 2008 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers. English Francais SUMMARIES OF PRESENTATIONS - WORLD DIGITAL MEDIA ROUND TABLE Here are the summaries of presentations from the annual World Digital Media Round Table. More OFFENDING, SHOCKING, DISTURBING - A FREE PRESS RIGHT? Cartoonists and journalists from the Arab world, Europe and the United States today (Sunday) defended their right to offend, shock and disturb their audiences, and presented evidence that the Danish cartoon crisis was manipulated by repressive governments to further restrict freedom of expression. More PRESS FREEDOM UNDER THREAT WORLD-WIDE: WAN Press freedom is under serious threat from many sources -- gangs and corrupt officials in Latin America, autocratic regimes in the Middle East, conflicts in Africa, hostile governments in Asia, and from death threats and prosecutions in central Asia and Europe, the World Association of Newspapers said in its half-year review of press freedom. English Français CHINA BARS JOURNALIST'S FAMILY FROM ATTENDING WORLD NEWSPAPER CONGRESS The family of a Chinese journalist awarded the world's most prestigious press freedom prize was today prevented from flying to Sweden to pick up the award on his behalf. More REGIONAL, MULTIMEDIA FOCUS AT WORLD NEWSPAPER CONGRESS If “all journalism is local”, then two newspaper groups in Scandinavia are pointing the way toward a successful future - and they're doing it with innovative, multi-media newspapers. English Español Français Deutsch CONGRESS SESSION TO FOCUS ON REACHING YOUNG READERS It doesn't take extensive research to know that young people are restless, demanding and consumption oriented, and are used to accessing their media free of charge. But when it comes to their media habits, it takes a lot of research to understand why they do what they do, and the implications their behaviour today holds for their future media consumption. English Español Français Deutsch RECORD PARTICIPATION AT INFO SERVICES EXPO Info Services Expo 2008, the annual exhibition for suppliers to the newspaper industry at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum, has a record number of exhibitors already registered for the events, to be held from 1 to 4 June in Göteborg, Sweden. The Congress and Forum are on track for record participation too. English Français Español Deutsch NEWSPAPERS IN THE USA - THE NEXT FIVE YEARS Dean Singleton, the Vice Chairman and CEO of the MediaNews Group in the United States, has joined the programme of the World Newspaper Congress, where he will present his group's strategy plans for the next five years, while addressing the current difficulties of the most challenging market in the world. English Français Español Deutsch EXTENDING NEWSPAPER STRENGTHS TO THE WEB Newspapers everywhere share some universal characteristics: strong brands, customer loyalty, and high levels of market reach. How to extend these attributes into digital media will be the subject of a major presentation at the 61st World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden, from 1 to 4 June next. English Français Español Deutsch TRANSFORMATION OF DE PERSGROEP EXAMINED AT NEWSPAPER CONGRESS Eighteen months after combining three publishing companies into one multi-media group, Belgium's De Persgroep is ready to report on the lessons of its transformation at the World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden, from 1 to 4 June next. English Español Français Deutsch INDIAN MULTIMEDIA GROWTH EXAMINED AT WORLD NEWSPAPER CONGRESS The Indian newspaper market is drawing attention for both its growth and innovation. Newspapers executives from around the globe will have the opportunity to examine one particularly successful example of Indian innovation at the 61st World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden from 1 to 4 June next. English Francais Español Deutsch WORLD NEWSPAPER SUMMIT TO FOCUS ON GROWTH Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf has agreed to open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2008, the global summit meetings of the world's press, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden, next June. English Español Deutsch Français |
GÖTEBORG: EDITORS DISCUSS IMPACT OF THE INTEGRATED NEWSROOM (PART TWO VIDEO) Interviews with editors-in-chiefEditors throughout the conference discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the digital revolution of the newsrooms. The integrated newsroom was much talked about at the 15th World Editor's Forum. Being the "must-do" idea of 2007, some newspapers still haven't m... GÖTEBORG: 2007 - 2008 PRINT AND ONLINE LAUNCHES (VIDEO) World Editors Forum - SEVENTH SESSION With : Gianni Valenti, Deputy Editor, Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor, Mint, India Ignacio Escolar, Editor-in-Chief, Publico, Spain Pierre Haski, Founder and Editor in Chief, Rue89.com, France Dominic Young, Director of Editorial ... GÖTEBORG:VIDEO TOUR OF THE EXPO FLOOR Vendors talk about the business they do at the World Newspaper Congress in this short film. ... GöTEBORG: MéTHODE ALLOW JOURNALISTS TO WORK IN AN INTEGRATED NEWSROOM At the 15th World Editors Forum, Luc Petitfrère, deputy Editor-in-Chief for Edipresse in Switzerland, told the audience why they have chose to use Methode - a multiple-channel publishing platform - for all their magazines. The Edipresse Group, whose activity was limited to Switzerland for a lon... GöTEBORG: FINDING A GOOD CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Patrick Saliën, Manager at Belgium's Corelio, talked about the search for a working, effective CMS, during the eighth session of the 15th World Editors Forum.Corelio is the biggest newspaper-publisher in Belgium. When the development of news websites alongside the paper edition started during the 90... GöTEBORG: THERE'S A LIFE AFTER THE NEWSPAPER Over the last couple of days the future of the printed newspaper has been discussed and debated 15th World Editors Forum. Some declare it dead, others are optimistic. Pierre Haski, Founder and Editor in Chief at Rue89.com, doesn't need to worry. He spoke at the 7th session session under the slogan "... GöTEBORG: WELT ONLINE - WHY WE CHOSE ESCENIC Six newspaper groups needing a new content management system (CMS) have become one multimedia group with one integrated newroom: Welt Online. Oliver Michalski, Deputy Editor in Chief of Die Welt, talked about the advantages and disadvantages of their choice, EScenic, at the 15th World Editors Forum.... GÖTEBORG: EXTENDED VIDEO - GARRY KASPAROV CHALLENGES RUSSIAN PRESS FREEDOM AT WORLD EDITORS FORUM During a speech at the 15th World Editors Forum in Goteborg, Sweden, Garry Kasparov, leader of The Other Russia, an opposition political party, addressed subjects such as press freedom and the political climate for journalists in today's Russia. Immediately following his address, Vladimir Sungork... GÖTEBORG: NEWSPAPER WEEKEND EDITIONS WIN OVER WEEKDAYS (VIDEO) World Editors Forum - SIXTH SESSION How can weekend editions strengthen the newspapers? Editors Edward Greenspon from Canadian Globe & Mail and Erik Bjerager from Danish Kristeligt Dagblad answer this question and offer ideas for both big and small newspapers. They also discuss why it is so im... GÖTEBORG: DIGITAL MEDIA TRAINING FOR THE NEW NEWSROOM (VIDEO) World Editors Forum - FIFTH SESSION The digital age has reached the newsroom, but are the journalists ready for it? Editors and directors talk about how to train journalists and keep them up to date for video, e-consulting and cultural change. More video reports from the World Editors Forum ... GöTEBORG: CAN ETHICS SELL PAPERS? During the seventh session of the 15th World Editors Forum, Raju Narisetti's, Managing Editor at Mint, India, asked the question, "Can ethics sell papers?" using the story of his recently launched paper as the answer.Mint is a business newspaper which launched in February 2007, in a market that alre... The Innovations International Media Consulting Group presented its annual survey at a joint session of the 61st World Newspaper Congress and 15th World Editors Forum. The general conclusions of the session were that newspapers need to dare to be innovative and commit their papers to profound change.... JUST PUBLISHED: TRENDS IN NEWSROOMS 2008 What are the key issues for newsrooms around the globe? The just-completed World Editors Forum helped answer that question. So does Trends in Newsrooms 2008, the fourth annual WEF report that examines the main trends for newsrooms everywhere. English Español Français XAVIER VIDAL-FOLCH ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WORLD EDITORS FORUM Xavier Vidal-Folch, Deputy Director of the Spanish daily El Pais, has been elected President of the World Editors Forum, the global association for senior newsroom executives within the World Association of Newspapers. English Español Français GÖTEBORG: THE HYPER-LOCAL NEWS MODEL: A SOLUTION FOR PRINT AND ONLINE (VIDEO) World Editors Forum FOURTH SESSION Hyper-local projects have been launched by Östersunds Posten and Helsingin Sanomat. Editors from these newspapers talk about how they made their ideas work and about the future of user-generated content. They both believe in having their users decide about their ... GÖTEBORG: ARE MOBILE NEWS AND "MOJOS" CHANGING JOURNALISM? (VIDEO) World Editors Forum SESSION THREE Paul Cheesbrough, Chief Information Officer, Telegraph Media Group, UK Ilicco Elia, Product Manager - Mobile & Emerging Media, Reuters, UK Michael Cooper, Director of Advanced Reading Technologies, Microsoft, USA Oscar Westlund, Doctoral Student, University o... GöTEBORG: SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITIONS SAVED KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD The national Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad managed to turn the tide and went from being close to bakruptcy to increasing its circulation by introducing new weekend editions. Editor in Chief Erik Bjerager explained how this was done at the 15th World Editors Forum.Kristeligt Dagblad is a nation... GÖTEBORG: ARE INTEGRATED NEWSROOMS REALLY WORKING? (VIDEO) Second Session from the World Editors Forum - VIDEO With : Javier Moreno, Editor-in-Chief, El Pais, Spain Jim Roberts, Editor of Digital News, The New York Times, USA Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO, Det Berlingske Officin, and Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark Almar Latour, Managing Editor, wsj.... GöTEBORG: THE MAKING OF A SUCCESSFUL WEEKEND NEWSPAPER EDITION At the sixth session of the 15th World Editors Forum, Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief of Canada's Globe and Mail spoke about the process of changing the design of his paper's weekend edition. The Globe and Mail did this to maintain readers and allow them to raise the price.As at many papers, the G... Controversial Russian Political Figure Provokes Press Freedom Offer from Russian Press Guild During World Editors Forum Speech in Sweden. At the 15th World Editor's Forum Garry Kasparov was the guest speaker of the second editors' lunch. He spoke on different subjects, such as the lack of freedom... GöTEBORG: HUGE RETURNS WITH CITIZEN JOURNALISM Werner Eggert, Editor in Chief of Tide in Germany, spoke about the advantages of citizen journalism and how to train the 'untrainables' at the 15th World Editors Forum. Eggert said that there are many benefits that come with citizen journalism. It is mostly freeCitizen journalists see trends ... GöTEBORG: HUGE RETURNS WITH CITIZEN JOURNALISM Werner Eggert, Editor in Chief, Tide, Germany speaks about the advantages of citizen journalism and how to train the untrainable at the 15th World Editors Forum, fifth session.Werner Eggert means that there are many benefits with citizen journalism. Basically, it is for freeCitizen journalists see t... GöTEBORG: HOW TO GET YOUR STAFF UP TO DATE WITH MULTIMEDIA The UK's Trinity Mirror PLC has successfully trained its staff in multimedia, explained Neil Benson, Trinity PLC's Editorial Director, at The 15th World Editors Forum.Multimedia knowledge at Trinity Mirror was, according to Neil Benson, patchy. They needed quick solutions and had no time to study th... GöTEBORG: "IT'S THE PARADIGM SHIFT OF THINKING VISUALLY David Dunkley Gyimah, Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminister, UK, was one of the speakers at the fifth session at the 15th World Editors Forum. The topic of his speech was "Videojournalism-now and what next...integrated multimedia videojournalism?" Since the birth of the videojournalism n... GöTEBORG: DAILY TELEGRAPH: "ONE WEEK COURSES ARE AN INVESTMENT FOR THE FUTURE" "We have to make sure our journalists have the right skills." Thats how the idea of a training program started at the Daily Telegraph. Speaking at the 15th World Editors Forum, Chris Lloyd, Assistant Managing Editor, discussed the one-week training program that the Telegraph implemented to help its ... GÖTEBORG: PRINTED NEWSPAPERS FACE GREAT CHALLENGES (VIDEO) Hot Topic: Will newspapers survive the era of digital distribution? According to Timothy Balding, CEO of WAN, newspapers in a global perspective are doing well, contrary to trends in specific regions like North America and parts of Europe. Print as a distribution form is losing ground to new digi... GöTEBORG: "GATEKEEPING HAS BECOME A DIRTY WORD, BUT IT'S STILL OUR JOB" At the fourth session of the 15th World Editors Forum the question of how online editors view user participation in making news was partly answered thanks to a study. Two persons working on this study, called "Guarding open gates:How online editors view user participation in making news", were Steve... GöTEBORG: READER BLOGS INCREASED ÖSTERSUND POSTENS ONLINE VISITORS Elin Olofsson, News Editor at the Swedish Östersund Posten told the audience at the 15th World Editors Forum about how hyperlocal websites with reader blogs are becoming a reality at the ÖP.In May 2007, Östersund Posten started eight hyperlocal websites called The HeartProject. Apart from hyperlocal... GöTEBORG: FINLAND'S INFORMATION BASED COMMUNITY The web community Oma Kaupunki offers a new way of being hyperlocal, explained Reeta Merilainen, Editor-in-Chief of Helsingin Sanomat, Finland, at the fourth session of the15th World Editors Forum: Oma Kaupunki - My Own City - was launched last august. It is a local community and search engine based... GÖTEBORG: WILL WEB 2.0 GIVE BIRTH TO JOURNALISM 2.0? (VIDEO) >Will Web 2.0 give birth to Journalism 2.0? Opening presentation by Nikesh Arora, President EMEA Operations & Vice-President, Google Inc., UK Other panelists: Kathleen Carroll, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, The Associated Press, USA Pierre Bellanger, CEO and founder, Skyblogs an... GöTEBORG: MOBILE NEWS IS NOT THE FUTURE FOR ALL Oscar Westlund, doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg spoke about the dream of mobile news and if it will go beyond news addicts at the 15th World Editors Forum. Oscar Westlund does research about media usage in Sweden. In his studies, he has found that although many Swedes own mobile pho... GöTEBORG: DON´T SEE YOUR MOBILE PHONE ONLY AS A TELEPHONE... The worlds largest international multimedia news agency, Reuters, equipped its journalists with a small mobile journalism toolkit. This could be the beginning of the future journalism according to Ilicco Elia, Product Manager of mobile and emerging media at Reuters. He told the audience at the third... GöTEBORG: "THE MOBILE NEWS REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE NEWSROOM" "The mobile news revolution and its impact on the newsroom". That was the topic for the speech of Paul Cheesbrough, Chief Information Officer at the Telegraph Media Group, United Kingdom, at the third session of the 15th World Editors Forum. Trying to coordinate and strengthen the use of mobile tech... GöTEBORG: MICROSOFT - HOW TO GET YOUR NEWS ON EVERY MOBILE DEVICE Michael Cooper, Director of Advanced Reading Technologies at Microsoft, USA, presented his company's forays into mobile news and e-readers at the 15th World Editors Forum. Cooper talked about how there are many people who now use their mobile phones and devices to read news and to get information. ... GöTEBORG: "INTEGRATED NEWSROOMS ARE A NECESSARY AND EXCITING ROAD TO THE FUTURE" According to Lisbeth Knudsen, CEO, Det Berlingske Officin, and Editor-in-chief, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark, the question is not if integrated newsrooms are working but how newspapers can make them work. Knudsen was one of the presenters in a session about integrated newsrooms at the 15th World Edit... GöTEBORG: RIA NOVOSTI'S RAPID ROAD TO INTEGRATION Svetlana Mironyuk, Editor-in-Chief of Russian news agency, Ria Novosti, joined Session 2 at the 15th annual World Editors Forum to speak about her company's radical transformation to a completely integrated newsroom. Mironyuk explained how the news agency had plans to reorganize its newsroom over on... GöTEBORG: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WELCOMES EXPERIMENTATION Integrated newsrooms are a great hope for us and a great excitement, said Almar Latour, Managing Editor, wsj.com. Speaking at the 15th World Editors Forum, Latour said that the integrated newsroom at the famous Wall Street Journal has been an inspiration for its journalists. The Wall Street Jou... GöTEBORG: TWO SEPARATE PLATFORMS, ONE GLOBAL MEDIA A new digital profile inviting readers to join is one of the important things behind El Pais' success, said Javier Moreno, Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish daily newspaper, at the second session of the 15th World Editors ForumEl Pais has chosen to work with the print and online newsrooms separated fro... GöTEBORG: NEW YORK TIMES - "FAST IS GOOD, BUT FAST WITH QUALITY IS BETTER" Jim Roberts, Editor of Digital News at New York Times, USA, spoke about innovations in his newsroom at the second session of the 15th World Editors Forum, part of the 61st World Newspaper Congress. The integration of print and the New York Times' website has gone far. According to Mr Roberts it's "m... GÖTEBORG: WAN AWARDS GOLDEN PEN TO JAILED CHINESE JOURNALIST IN EMOTIONAL CEREMONY VIDEO: Golden Pen awarded to Li Changqing Chinese journalists suffering under severe press freedoms are honored in the Golden Pen ceremony at the opening ceremonies of the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Student journalist teams from JMG Univer... GÖTEBORG: SURVEY RESULTS FROM WORLD EDITORS FORUM - INTRODUCTION SESSION New results from research announced A video vox pop summary from the kick off to the World Editors Forum conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Student journalist teams from JMG University of Gothenburg are reporting in blogs, interviews and a range of video stories from the annual meeting of the World... GöTEBORG: 85% OF EDITORS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS For the second year, the Newsroom Barometer, a survey organized by Reuters and the World Editors Forum and conducted by Zogby International, was presented at the 15th World Editors Forum conference, being held this year in Göteborg, Sweden. The Barometer is an exclusive international survey designed... GöTEBORG: "DELIVER DEPTH: A COMMUNICATION MODEL FOR THE FUTURE" Young people want news with depth, something they aren´t getting now. This is an eye-opener for newspapers, said Jim Kennedy, director of strategic planning at the AP, who presented a new consumer study, conducted with the anthropologist Robbie Blinkoff, at the opening session of the 15th World Edit... GöTEBORG: GOOGLE ON JOURNALISM 2.0 Nikesh Arora, President EMEA Operations & Vice President, Google Inc., UK, presented participants at the 15th World Editors Forum with food for thought as to the way in which the media consumption habits and the media landscape in general have radically transformed with Web 2.0. Arora opened the... GÖTEBORG: EDITORS FORUM BREAKFAST VIDEO INTERVIEWS Sweden: At the first day of the World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, editors-in-chief of newspapers from all over the world were gathered for an intimate welcome breakfast. Peter Hjörne, editor-in-chief for the opinion and editorial pages of the local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, held an affect... GöTEBORG: WORLD NEWSPAPER CONGRESS OPENING CEREMONY The 61st World Newspaper Congress and 15th World Editor Forum opened at 10 am on Monday the 1st of June. During the two hour opening ceremony the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra entertained the audience with delightful music. Between musical interludes came presentations about the state of the industr... GöTEBORG: "IT WAS MY DESTINY TO BECOME A JOURNALIST" Those are the words of Li Changqing, recipient of the 2008 Golden Pen of Freedom. At the opening ceremony of the 61st World Newspaper Congress and 15th World Editors Forum the Golden Pen of Freedom Award was given to Mr Li, Deputy News Director, Fuzhou Daily, China. Unfortunately he wasn't able to t... GÖTEBORG: EDITORS DISCUSS PRESS FREEDOM, DIGITAL MEDIA AT WORLD EDITORS FORUM IN SWEDEN The first day of the World Editors Forum featured three roundtable discussions, one about freedom of the press, new digital platforms and perhaps the biggest challenge for newspapers these days, how can newspapers attract young readers? The 15th World Editors Forum 1800 participants from 130 count... GöTEBORG: THE PRODUCTION LINE FROM PARIS TO CAIRO TO BERLIN The Road to Goteborg goes through Paris, Cairo and BerlinUploaded by editorsforum Robb Montgomery is in Sweden leading a team of Swedish student journalists who will produce daily video reports in Gothenborg at the World Editors Forum. This film catches up with Robb as he makes a short stop in Berl... GöTEBORG: OFFENSIVE WORDS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY Writer, broadcaster and visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the UK's University of Surrey, Kenan Malik, discussed whether freedom of speech should be restricted or not in today's pluralistic society at the Press Freedom Round Table at the 15th W... GöTEBORG: THE FUTURE OF ONLINE AD REVENUES - SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE NEWSPAPER Matha Stone, Director, SFN Project, World Association of Newspapers, gave a brief overlook on the Report on Global Impact and Digital Revenues at the Digital Media Round Table at the 61st World Newspaper Congress. The advertisment market share for printed revenues is going down, and the internet i... GöTEBORG: "WHO IS CRAWLING YOUR SITE, AND WHY?" Content on the Internet used by the wrong people is a big problem, according to Mark Bide, project director for ACAP, Automated Content Access Protocol. He started the conversation at the Digital Media Round Table, part of the 61st World Newspaper Congress, by asking the audience, "how many had hear... GöTEBORG, YOUNG READER ROUNDTABLE: TIPS FROM ARALYNN MCMANE Aralynn McMane is the Director of WAN Young Readership Development. At the 15th World Editors Forum she gave 25 tips for the audience to bring back home. McMane says that newspapers are not going anywhere and that we should not reinvent the wheel. WAN is urging newspapers to celebrate International ... GöTEBORG: NETTBY.NO - EXPANDING YOUNG COMMUNITY JO Christian Oterhals, Head of Development at VG Multimedia & Chairman of the Board at Nettby Community AS, Norway, spoke about his companies' forays into social networking at the Annual Digital Media Round Table, a session at the 61st World Newspaper Congress. The VG.no website takes pri... As a part of the 15th World editors forum, press freedom round table representatives from magazines and newspapers from Europe and northern Africa discussed how media reacted to the publication of the controversial Mohammed cartoons. Philippe Val, a columnist and managing director of the Fren... GöTEBORG: "IN SWEDEN WE'RE NOT USED TO DEATH-THREATS FROM AL-QAIDA" The quote above was given by Ulf Johansson, Editor-in-Chief of Nerikes Allehanda (Sweden) at the Press Freedom Round Table at the 61st annual World Newspaper Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden. He described how his life was affected by making the decision to publish a caricature of the prophet Mohammed ... GöTEBORG YOUNG READER ROUNDTABLE: "WE MUST GO TO THEM" The number of young readers was decreasing at the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs Posten, they had to do something. Anders Goliger and Cecilia Lönnehed tell us about their solutions at The young readers roundtable, the 14 World editor Forum.Göteborgs Posten, GP, reaches two of three people in Gothenburg... GöTEBORG: USER-GENERATED CONTENT AND WHAT USERS ARE LOOKING FOR Tony Lee, sales director of Norway's FAST, a company helping media companies transform their business online, presented FAST's product and strategies for newspapers at the annual Digital Media Round Table, part of the 61st World Newspaper Congress."You have to start with with your users," Tony Lee t... GöTEBORG: ARGENTINE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ADVICE SHEET FOR PARENTS At the Young Reader Round Table sessions of The World Newspaper Congress, 2008, Roxana Morducchowiza, Director of Media & Education of the Argentina Education Ministry, tells of a project called "TV in the family". In collaboration with the publisher Clarin, a leaflet with advice to parents was ... GöTEBORG: MOBILE ADS - A MARKET READY TO GROW Mr Richard Seyler Ling, Sociologist and Senior researcher, Telenor Research & Development, Norway talked about the new way we use mobile phones and how this opens up a new market for mobile advertisement at The Annual Digital Media Round Table, a session of the 61st World Newspaper Congress.Over... GöTEBORG: DN IS GOING MOBILE - A STATUS REPORT 61st World Newspaper Congress15th World Editors ForumDigital Media Round TableJohan Brandt - Director of Mobile, Dagens Nyheter, SwedenLast year Dagens Nyheter, DN, launched a mobile designed for the DN-company. The mobile site is getting more and more complete, but Johan Brandt wants it to become i... GöTEBORG: BUSINESS NEWSPAPER POPULAR AMONG YOUNG READERS At the World Newspaper Congress 2008 Round table sessions, Svetlana Khoroshev of Russia, tells of how Delovoy Peterburg, a business newspaper, built a loyal young reader's fanbase with the help of a new section of the newspaper directed especially towards young readers. The section, NEXT, is based u... GöTEBORG YOUNG READER ROUNDTABLE: GAZETTA SAVED THE RIVER AND YOUNG READERS Speaking at the 14 World Editor Forum, Gregory Piechota from the polish newspaper Gazetta Wyborcza told the annual Young Reader Roundtable audience about how his paper, together with young readers, saved the river Respuda.The polish government had decided to build a highway that would go throu... GöTEBORG: WELT ONLINE, ESCENIC CMS Welt Online, website of referential daily Die Welt in Germany, has chosen eScenic for its content management. Oliver Michalsky, deputy editor of Welt Online, will explain this choice at the upcoming World Editors Forum, to be held in Gothenburg, June 1-4."We thing that eScenic is a high performance ... GöTEBORG: WHY SPH CHOSE ATEX AND IBM FOR ITS CMS: CUSTOMER SERVICE Geoffrey Pereira, Head of Editorial Systems at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), will explain why the group has chosen ATEX Hermes and IBM's Nica platform to be its content management system at the upcoming World Editors Forum, to be held in Gothenburg, June 1-4.SPH began its long process of adopting ... GöTEBORG: INTEGRATION AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: FIRST, CHANGING MINDSETS According to Almar Latour, managing editor of WSJ.com, newsroom integration is a matter of newsroom culture and collaboration, rather than physical proximity.Latour will explain how the Wall Street Journal has integrated its news operations - while remaining non-integrated in the restrictive sense -... GöTEBORG: ASSOCIATED PRESS 2.0: 1-2-3 FILING FOR ALL STORIES Kathleen Carroll, Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of the Associated Press, will speak during the session entitled "Will Web 2.0 give birth to Journalism 2.0?" at the upcoming World Editors Forum, to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 1-4.In the last six months, AP has codified its news d... GöTEBORG: AP STUDY OF YOUNG MEDIA CONSUMERS: "THEY WANT THE BACK STORY" The Associated Press will present the full results of its qualitative, anthropological study of young media consumers around the world at the 2008 World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, Sweden, to be held June 1-4.The results of the 2008 Newsroom Barometer already revealed that the decline among young r... GöTEBORG: RUE89: A YEAR OF ONLINE SUCCESS AND THE NEW ETHICS OF THE WEB Rue89, an online-only news site launched in May 2007 by a group of former journalists at Libération, has been one of the year's success stories in the French media landscape (over 650,000 unique visitors monthly, Nielsen).Its founder, Pierre Haski, will discuss the site's path to success, as well as... GöTEBORG:HELSINGIN SANOMAT'S HYPERLOCALISM: CLOSE TO THE READERS' MINDS Reetta Meriläinen, editor-in-chief of the Helsingin Sanomat in Helsinki, Finland, will discuss the paper's print and online hyperlocal strategies at the upcoming World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 1 to 4.The Editors Weblog is carrying a few 'teaser' interviews featuring speakers of... GöTEBORG:NYT DIGITAL NEWS EDITOR ON INTEGRATION: GRADUAL IS SUCCESSFUL Jim Roberts, digital news editor at The New York Times, will speak of the newsroom integration process undergone by the paper of record at the upcoming World Editors Forum, to be held June 1-4 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He'll describe the last 3 years at the Times, as "it has attempted to make what I co... WILL WEB 2.0 GIVE BIRTH TO JOURNALISM 2.0? Reader participation, user-generated content and social networks are having an impact on journalism, and that impact is likely to grow. But will Web 2.0 give birth to a new form of journalism? That question will be examined at the annual World Editors Forum, to be held in Sweden from 1 to 4 June next. English Français Español Deutsch EXCLUSIVE NEWSROOM RESEARCH TO BE RELEASED AT WEF An international news consumption study from The Associated Press and the annual "Newsroom Barometer" survey of newsroom strategies are among the exclusive research offerings now being prepared for the World Editors Forum, to be held in Sweden in June. English Español Français Deutsch NEWSROOM INTEGRATION - WHY, HOW AND WHEN Is newsroom integration really working? Editors at four of the world's most prestigious newspapers will examine this question at the 15th World Editors Forum, to be held in Sweden in June, the Forum announced on Tuesday. English Français Español Deutsch |
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