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9th International Newsroom Summit

21-22 April 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:

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

 

Editorial

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.

iPad: What's next?: Three screens, that's all iWant

Journalist Grig Davidovitz says the iPad shouldn't be judged as a new device between the laptop and the smartphone, but as a semi-independent component of the future laptop. Done responding to office emails, and wishing to relax a bit while surfing the web? Not a problem – detach the screen and surf while enjoying a wonderful hands only UI

SPECIAL ISSUE: NEWSPLEX EUROPE

WAN-IFRA recently published a 32-page Special Issue about Newsplex Europe. This report looks at several of the newsroom projects the Newsplex team 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.

Click on the attachment below to read this special edition.

CONFERENCE: The Future of News Media & Journalism

25-26 February, Singapore

This conference aims to explore the impact of the digital revolution on traditional news media and the society. It ambitions to develop skills and strategies for improving journalism and news coverage thanks to the new communication and information technologies available.

Details and registration

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.

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

5th Middle East Conference and Workshop: Changing to succeed: Editorial and commercial strategies for the future

2-3 February 2010, Dubai

The 5th Middle East Conference and Workshops provided insight into the latest newsroom strategies, advertising concepts and business opportunities from around the world, presented by distinguished international and regional speakers.

This regional event for the Arabic world focused on case studies, innovative ideas and new solutions for a successful development of the news publishing business in a challenging environment. The event also offered the opportunity to experience sophisticated, future-orientated content management systems that were available for hands-on demonstrations.

IFRA Expo 2009: Strategies in Newsrooms Focus Session

The Strategies in Newsrooms Focus Session took place on the second day of IFRA Expo 2009 in Vienna.

This session, chaired by Dietmar Schantin, WAN-IFRA Executive Director of Publishing, Editorial and General Management, included a presentation about the launch of the Newsplex goLocal initiative, which aims to help local and regional newspaper publishers reach their full potential in the areas of local journalism and local business by Joachim Blum, Media Consultant, Germany. Other speakers included:

> Tatiana Repkova of WAN-IFRA, France, who discussed world trends in the newspaper industry.

> Meg Pickard, Head of Social Media Development, Guardian News and Media, United Kingdom, who talked about content, communities and collaboration: making media social.

> Pascal Zemp, Project Manager New Media, Ringier AG, Switzerland, who discussed the integrated newsroom of the Blick Gruppe of Ringier Switzerland.

The session was sponsored by: Nstein

IFRA Expo 2009: Design Focus Session

This Focus Session, which took place on 13 October in Vienna during IFRA Expo 2009, concetrated on design.

Speakers during the session, chaired by Melanie Shah, Consulting and Training, WAN-IFRA, Germany, included:

> Hans Peter Janisch, International Director of Society for News Design (SND), Germany, who talked about SND World´s Best Design -What we can learn from the winners.

> Grig Davidovitz, Former Editor in Chief of Haaretz Internet Sites, Journalist, Israel, who discussed learning from old media: building news sites by customers' needs. Related story.

> XMA - Cross Media Awards winners:

Boris Trupcevic, Publisher and Editorial Director for Styria in Croatia / General Manager at 24sata, Croatia, who talked about the 24sata MMM Brand.

Andreea Rosca, Publishing Director Business Media, Realitatea Catavencu, Romania, who discussed designing multi-media products.

Conference: 8th World Young Reader Conference

The recent 8th World Young Reader Conference (27-30 September in Prague) focused on the cost-effective practical solutions newspapers need now, when more and more must be done with less and less. A concentration was placed on a full range of the very newest strategies to successfully connect with on multiple platforms, allowing newspapers to cut through the maze of messages young people receive with the most authentic voice of all.

WEBSITE DESIGN: Learning from old media

Grig Davidovitz, a journalism and new media consultant and lecturer, is the former editor in chief of Haaretz newspaper websites. In this article, he explains why news sites should learn to embrace news design principles developed by the old media to better meet their customers' needs. Moving the template from the site level to the article level is a start.

CONFERENCE + WORKSHOP: Newsroom Summit Asia

The Newsroom Summit Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 8-9 July drew more than 80 participants from 15 countries, including nine exhibiting industry suppliers. The summit was WAN-IFRA’s first editorial event in Asia as well as the very first WAN-IFRA event since the merger took effect on 1 July.

A pre-conference workshop on Future-Proofing the Newsroom on 7 July drew 18 participants.

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.

CONFERENCE REPORT: 3rd International Photo Metadata Conference


Metadata in a Multimeda World

The programme of the third international Photo Metadata Conference continued the discussions from previous years: metadata is crucial to business and having a common set of fields and terms across as many involved parties as possible highly improves the value of any content. But the media business is moving forward and the buzz word of media convergence is becoming real: primarily driven by the requirements of web publishers the exchange of visual media using photos, graphics and video is merging into a single business. What does this mean for those who have a stake in this business across media types, do we have to go back to the drawing board to create a new set of common metadata?

STUDY TOUR: The New Generation of Newsrooms

16-18 June 2009 Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Germany

This summer IFRA led a German-language Study Tour to examine state-of-the-art newsrooms at major news publishers in Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin. Participants discovered the latest in newsroom design and organisation through visits to Süddeutschen Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau and Axel Springer’s WELT Gruppe.

INTERVIEW: dpa eine der ersten mit EventsML-basierten Produkten

Anfang 2008 wurden die ersten der IPTC-G2-Standards, NewsML G2 und EventsML G2 veröffentlicht. Ende 2008 hatte die dpa, Deutsche Presseagentur, bereits Events-ML für ihre Kunden bereit gestellt. Robert Schmidt-Nia, Abteilungsleiter IT Entwicklung der dpa-mediatechnology GmbH in Hamburg wurde zu diesem Thema vom IPTC Mirror, dem Newsletter des International Press Telecommunications Council befragt.

EXPERT VIEW: What comes after the media-integrated newsroom?

Today, media-integrated newsrooms are viewed as an accepted solution for meeting the challenges of the digital media in connection with the printed newspaper. However, because the majority of newsrooms continue to view the print product as either the only or most important carrier of information, it will be a while before the new ways of thinking and working are part of the average newsroom’s DNA.

REVIEW : Newsroom Summit 2009 in Prague - Highlights

Newsroom reorganisation was a key topic at the 8th International Newsroom Summit, held in February 2009 in Prague. A slideshow review by our Senior Editor Brian Veseling.

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.

OPEN HOUSE: alfa Media Partner Kundentage

Mehr als dreißig Personen – Kunden, potentielle Kunden und Gäste – waren der Einladung der alfa Media Partner GmbH in Ihr Hauptquartier nach Rödermark gefolgt. Während der vorherige Kundentag dem Anzeigengeschäft gewidmet war, standen dieses Mal die Redaktionen im Fokus der Vorträge und Diskussionen.

Bericht, Interviews und Fotogalerie


On the Blog

Mon, 2009-08-17 10:25 — WAN-IFRA

Each month, Nielsen Online releases data on the most-visited newspaper websites and each month, The New York Times tops the list, the only U.S. newspaper to challenge the big portals like MSNBC, Yahoo! and CNN. The Times' competitiveness in this area is also helping the company grow its digital income, which accounted for 12 percent of its total revenues in 2008.

Tue, 2009-12-01 13:58 — Valerie Arnould

At no time in the foreseeable future will digital advertising revenues replace those lost to print, making the search for new business models ­including paid-for online access for news ­ a pressing concern for the news publishing industry, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said in its annual world press trends update.


In the Wiki

Fri, 2010-01-29 18:21 — Brian Veseling

iPad: What's next?: Three screens, that's all iWant

Journalist Grig Davidovitz says the iPad shouldn't be judged as a new device between the laptop and the smartphone, but as a semi-independent component of the future laptop. Done responding to office emails, and wishing to relax a bit while surfing the web? Not a problem – detach the screen and surf while enjoying a wonderful hands only UI.

Mon, 2009-06-15 18:19 — Brian Veseling

Rhidian Wynn-Davies is consulting editor at Telegraph Media Group (TMG), publisher of the Daily Telegraph, the largest-circulation quality daily title in the United Kingdom, as well as the Sunday Telegraph and other publications and websites. Here, he talks with us about the benefits and lessons learned from changes the group made when TMG moved from Canary Wharf to central London in September 2006 and thoroughly reorganised its newsroom with the assistance of IFRA.

Mon, 2009-06-15 18:18 — Brian Veseling

Jørgen la Cour-Harbo is assistant managing editor of NORDJYSKE Medier in Aalborg, Denmark. Here, he discusses the benefits and challenges that his company has experienced since it reorganised its newsroom several years ago to include not only print and online but also TV and radio operations.

Wed, 2010-02-17 19:16 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from Atex

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Wed, 2010-02-17 19:19 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from celum

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Wed, 2010-02-17 19:29 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from CID

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Mon, 2010-02-08 19:46 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from Comyan

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Mon, 2010-02-08 19:49 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from Extensis Europe

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Wed, 2010-02-17 19:18 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from FotoWare

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Fri, 2010-02-19 17:52 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from picturesafe

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Mon, 2010-02-15 18:19 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from protecmedia

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Tue, 2010-02-16 12:10 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from Saxotech

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Wed, 2010-02-17 19:23 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from Tera Digital Publishing

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.

Wed, 2010-02-17 19:20 — Brian Veseling

Digital Asset Management: Responses from Xinet

In the March/April 2010 issue of WAN-IFRA Magazine, we feature an article on Digital Asset Management (DAM) on pages 26-29. As there are numerous suppliers in this area and we have limited space in print, we could only publish a small portion of what each told us about their soltion. Here, we are publishing expanded interviews with the vendors for readers to get a fuller picutre of what each told us about their offering.


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