As part of the programme of activities for this week, the INCQC jury visited, together with some WAN-IFRA employees, the newsroom of the Frankfurter Rundschau, a newspaper based in the south side of Frankfurt. The group was welcomed by Thomas Hoppe, Technical Coordinator, (shown on the photo shaking hands with Anandaramakrishnan Srinivasan, jury member) and by Mr Walther, Marketing Manager.
There was a tour of some of the facilities including the conference room and an internal bridge with offered an overview of the modern newsroom facility. Jury members were quite interested not only on the set up of the newsroom as in the commercial aspects of Frankfrter Rundschau as a printed as well as an online newspaper.
By the time the jury members left the WAN-IFRA offices at the end of their second day, 88 newspaper titles had been analysed and proofed, of which 50 on the second day alone.
