After two days of intense exchange of ideas and contacts, WAN-IFRA India 2010 concludes.
Outside the hotel, musicians seem to bid farewell to the conference participants with traditional melodies from Rajasthan.
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Blog: WAN-IFRA India 2010
Welcome to the WAN-IFRA India 2010 blog! We will provide full coverage of the event, which is co-sponsored by The Indian Newspaper Society. For more information about the event please see www.wan-ifra.org/indiaconference2010.
WAN-IFRA India 2010
: Farewell
B.K. Sinha, DGM Production (Corporate) at Amar Ujala Publications is the happy winner of an iPad at the draw sponsored by CCI Europe.
"What sites such as eBay, TripAdvisor, Amazon or
Twitter do may seem very far from what we do," says Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian (U.K.), in his closing keynote speech. "Still," says Rusbridger, they can inspire us for improving what we do."
The Guardian's philosophy on new media is clear: you can pretend they do not exist and carry on as before, or you can embrace them and change with them.
The Newsroom Summit's afternoon session consists in an animated panel session moderated by N. Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu (left).
Rahul Kansal from the Times of India, Raj Chengappa, editor-in-chief, The Tribune (center) and Shravan Garg, Group editor, Dainik Bhaskar (right), engage with the audience on topics such as content monetisation, the impact of Internet and digital media and the future of journalism in India.
Chew Kai Kim, Vice President Pre-press/Operations at Singapore Press Holdings, shows how his company's publications captivate the advertisers with innovative products in print such as panoramic ads (pictured) or transparent wrap-around pages.
India’s young population is larger than China’s (593 million versus 466 million), which is why it is important to target it adequately, says Ashish Bagga, CEO of Living Media India.
Bagga’s recipe for capturing youth interests seems to work. His Indian edition of Cosmopolitan proudly holds the world’s record for highest pagination in one issue: 1400 pages – and 49 percent ads!
Rahul Kansal, Chief Marketing Officer at Bennett, Coleman & Co., India, gives insightful ideas on how to change in order to balance the newspaper product to make it attractive to all population segments, including the young.
Cyriac Mathew, CEO of Mid Day Infomedia, and Kasturi Balaji, Managing Director of The Hindu, carefully listen to a presentation by Matthias Tietz at the Printing Summit.
The Rheinische Post's managing director explains in great detail why his company is investing in offset presses at a time when the death of print is frequently announced.
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