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9th International Newsroom Summit

8-9 September 2010
London, United Kingdom

The 9th International Newsroom Summit will bring together participants from around the world to discuss such vital issues as multi-title newsrooms, paid content, social media and audience engagement and publishing on smartphones.

A distinguished roster of confirmed speakers includes:

The moderators are:

  • Elisabet Bäck, former Editor-in-Chief, VLT AB, Sweden
  • Dr. Dietmar Schantin, Executive Director, Publishing, Editorial and General Management, WAN-IFRA, Germany

General Management

Leaders 2010: Apply for the Leaders Diploma Program

Applications are now being accepted for early admission to the next edition of the Leaders Diploma Program, which starts in September.

Developed by SIMI and WAN-IFRA, the Leaders Program is tailored to media and newspaper mangers and focuses on how media executives handle the growing challenge of managing integrated media. The program is based on establishing a solid understanding of the key drivers in the industry and use this as springboards for further innovation.

Course Structure: 3 modules of 4-5 days

Dates: First module starts 20 September 2010. Last module ends 27 January 2011.

More details about Leaders 2010

WORLD PRESS TRENDS: New website launched; 2010 book available 30 June

A new website for World Press Trends (WPT) has just been launched. The WPT website offers information about the forthcoming World Press Trends 2010 book, including sample country reports, sample summaries, the table of contents, a media kit as well as ordering and contact information.

Also available is information about the World Press Trends Online Database, which contains a wealth of press data from around the world for the past decade.

The World Press Trends 2010 book will be available after 30 June in either PDF or in print, and four new regional editions for Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe will be available after 30 September.

Click here for the website
Order the new World Press Trends book

goLocal Study Tour: Kleines Medienhaus im grossen Fokus

Die Fokussierung auf das Lokale – «goLocal»: So lautete das Thema der Studienreise, durchgeführt von der WAN-IFRA, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.

Learning from Google: Turning credibility into money: A new revenue model for newspapers

Grig Davidovitz and Max Levitte describe how newspapers can learn from Google how to develop a revenue model that is connected to their core business. And while Google's core business is search, news sites are the most trustworthy sites online. So instead of erecting pay-walls that drive customers away, newspapers should learn how to leverage trust online.

SPECIAL ISSUE: NEWSPLEX EUROPE

WAN-IFRA has published a 32-page Special Issue about Newsplex Europe, which is celebrating its 5th anniversary in 2010. This report looks at several of the newsroom projects the Newsplex team has worked on during the past several years and highlights the areas where Newsplex is active including newsroom strategy advisory, training, conferences, executive study tours and special reports. In addition, the issue contains articles about managing newsroom change and the main structures for redesigned newsrooms.

Click on the attachment below to read this special edition.

NEWSPLEX: goLocal: A Newsplex initiative

Newsplex, in partnership with the German Press Agency dpa, launched an initiative called goLocal during IFRA Expo 2009 that aims to help support local and regional publishers to make the most of their unique market position.

“We want to make it clear to publishers how to utilise the benefits of regional, local and hyperlocal publishing and business services,” says Dietmar Schantin, Newsplex director and executive director of Publishing, Editorial and General Management at WAN-IFRA. “It is important for publishers to cater to the regional and local audience with compelling regional and local content. This is where a unique advantage can be generated and global, mostly digital, media players can be beaten. At the same time, when we talk about business services, we are not just talking about advertising, we are talking about being a media consultant with comprehensive, agency-like services for regional and local businesses.”

Media-led news agencies, such as the American AP, Austrian APA or German dpa, are seeking new possibilities of supporting shareholders and customers by providing new technical services in the necessary local re-orientation. This includes enriching local contents with metadata that is becoming increasingly important for achieving success on the web, joint content marketing or pursuing copyright infringements. “Besides their core news business, the agencies will develop completely new services in order to support publishing houses effectively – just as we have done for 50 publishing houses with our MINDS platform,” says Meinolf Ellers, CEO of dpa-infocom.

For details about goLocal, contact Dietmar Schantin at: dietmar.schantin@wan-ifra.org

Conference summaries: Managing the Crisis

This conference in London drew participants from 19 countries who enjoyed an engaging and enlightening event.

Managing the crisis: Challenges, opportunities and pitfalls for news publishing leaders

In today’s newspaper publishing environment, leaders face an increasingly complex world in which continual and rapid change is the norm. In a period of uncertainty, asking questions and framing scenarios gives confidence to leaders in this industry to go forward.

Speakers for the 28-29 September Managing the Crisis conference in London included:

Zeitung online 2010: Where decision makers meet

8-9 June 2010, Hilton Düsseldorf
In cooperation with BDZV

With immense transformations taking place in the media landscape, more news publishers are keen to determine which digital strategies offer the greatest odds for success. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, "Zeitung online" provided essential and diverse information in and around the world of digital business at publishing houses. This year's key questions were:

  • Local heroes: What works in local markets?
  • Paid content: Which payment models offer the best chances for success?
  • E-publishing: What are the products and the business models?
  • Advertising in 2010: What is required of the newspaper?
  • Where does untapped potential lie?

The conference held by the Federation of German Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) and WAN-IFRA offered a compelling agenda, with insight into many best practices and genuine success stories in and around the digital business of newspapers.

Speakers included:

Programme

TRAINING: At your company or our training facilities

You want to train a group of your staff, but travelling is a problem. With IFRA, you decide where the training takes place! Contact us and we will be pleased to make you an individual offer. Company training is the ideal way to ensure that several colleagues simultaneously reach the same level of knowledge and to jointly develop company-specific processes in an aimed manner.

TRAINING: Leadership Training for Editors

5-6 October 2009 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This recent English-language training provided tuition in the essential skills required to demonstrate effective leadership in the newsroom, including: developing leadership approaches in response to the newsroom’s changing needs; enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of communications with others; meeting people’s personal and practical needs and building their commitment to achieving results; ensuring people get the feedback they need to perform at peak levels.


On the Blog

Fri, 2010-01-08 13:46 — Brian Veseling

At least 33 free dailies closed worldwide in 2009 according to the latest issue of the Free Daily Newspapers newsletter, which was released this week. Likewise, total free daily circulation fell 12 percent to 37 million (from 43 million at end of 2008). However, there were some launches to offset some of the closures and according to Free Daily Newspapers Publisher Piet Bakker, there are currently a total of 56 free dailies worldwide down from a high of 60 in 2008 and 2009.


In the Wiki

Tue, 2010-06-08 12:15 — Charlotte Janis...

Im August 2009 sorgte das US-amerikanische Marktforschungs- und Medienberatungsunternehmen Borrell Associates mit Prognosen für Aufsehen, wonach für 2010 ein Anstieg der Zeitungswerbung von 2,4 Prozent zu erwarten sei und US-Zeitungsverlage in den nächsten Jahren ein anhaltendes Wachstum im einstelligen Bereich verzeichnen würden.


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