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9th International Newsroom Summit

8-9 September 2010
London, United Kingdom

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

 

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Study Tour: A visit to Finland's Turun Sanomat

On 2 September, Finland's Turun Sanomat welcomed participants of a WAN-IFRA Study Tour and posted an article and photo relating to the visit on the company's website.

The participants are representatives of Indian media house Malayala Manorama on a personalised Study Tour accompanied by WAN-IFRA's Melanie Shah.

17th World Editors Forum: The Tablet Year: Why mobile distribution will change news reporting

6-8 October 2010, Hamburg, Germany

This year's World Editors Forum will focus on three key themes:

  • Tablets: How will new e-reading devices impact news reporting?
  • Link & share: How newsrooms are adapting to fragmented audiences.
  • Cooperation: How news organisations are working as partners, rather than competitors.

The Editors Forum will also include a World Press Trends presentation, as well as the 2010 Global Report on Innovations in Newspapers presentation by the INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group.

Contact Bertrand Pecquerie at bertrand.pecquerie@wan-ifra.org

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 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

USER MEETING: of multicom Customers hosted by Media Group Unterfranken

A lot of information about new developments, fruitful discussions as well as fun and culture were the ingredients of two interesting days in Bamberg, hosted by Media Group Unterfranken, the publisher of Fränkischer Tag and other publications.

More (in German language)

5th Summer University: Introducing new momentum into your newsroom

5-7 July 2010
St Paul de Vence (Alpes Maritimes), France

Each summer, top European media executives gather in the south of France to learn about the latest media trends and practices.

This year, speakers included top editors from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the BBC and the Polish newspaper company Agora. In addition, international leadership consultants Jonathan Halls and Madeline Finnerty offered strategy advice about how to meet the needs of your readers today and in the future.

Details and registration

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:

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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.

CONFERENCE: The Future of News Media & Journalism

25-26 February, Singapore

This conference explored the impact of the digital revolution on traditional news media and the society. It also examined developing skills and strategies for improving journalism and news coverage through the new communication and information technologies available.

Details

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.

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.

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.

INTERVIEW: dpa to be first creating EventsML based products

Early in 2008, the first of IPTC’s G2-Standards were published — NewsMLG2 and EventsML-G2. By the end of 2008, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) had implemented the EventsML-G2 standard for its customers. Robert Schmidt-Nia, head of application development for dpa mediatechnology in Hamburg, spoke with the IPTC Mirror about how the implementation project began, the business case that supports it, the challenges that were resolved and the response of dpa customers.

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.

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.

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.

Expertise at your fingertips: Editorial Suppliers Guide

The bar for editorial systems is raised constantly. As a publisher today, you have to be prepared to spread your news across all channels (print, online, mobile). In many instances, the installed system landscape is lagging behind developments.

This guide will help you identify the right suppliers for your needs. You can compare systems according to criteria that are relevant for publishers.

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?

OPEN HOUSE: alfa Media Partner customer day

More than 30 people – customers, potential customers and guests – followed the invitatiion of alfa Media Partner to visit their headquarters in Rödermark, Germany. Whereas the previous customer day was dedicated to the advertising business, this time the focus of the lectures and discussions was on newsrooms.

10 Jahre MSP: 14. Bremer Verlagstreffen

Während der MSP (Medien Systempartner) Newsletter vom Juni d. J. noch mit der Schlagzeile „Mit der Tendenz zum Aufsteigen – MSP wird 10 Jahre und bleibt am Boden“ warb, so klang Motto des 14. Bremer Verlagstreffens sehr viel mutiger: „Mit neuem Antrieb Richtung Zukunft“ sollte es gehen. Die Besucher blieben zwar am Boden, aber das Besucherzentrum EADS vermittelte ihnen hautnah und plastisch einen Eindruck von der Weite des Raumes und von dem engen Leben auf einer Raumstation. Eine Veranstaltung, die weit mehr zu bieten hatte als die Vorstellung der eigenen Produkte und Dienstleistungen.

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Anniversary: 25 Years ppi Media

For 25 years ppi Media has been an innovative software development company for newspaper publishers. There are not many companies in Germany that have had such a high level of international success and have become a global market leader. Everything started in Hamburg, and so the famous Hotel Hafen Hamburg overlooking the scenic harbour was the perfect location to celebrate the anniversary. Even Peter Pape, who founded Pape + Partner Informationssysteme back in 1984, was present and despite all Hanseatic understatement he was obviously pleased about this anniversary.

  • Please read an interview with Norbert Ohl and Martin Ruhle, the two managing directors of ppi Media.

On the Blog

Tue, 2010-11-09 14:22 — Charlotte Janis...

Wie eine aktuelle Stimmungsuntersuchung unter rund 2200 Journalisten aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz und Slowenien ergeben hat, wird der Spagat zwischen redaktioneller Freiheit und wirtschaftlichem Druck für Journalisten zunehmend schwieriger. Rund 60 Prozent arbeiten in ihrem Beruf unter (teils erheblichem) ökonomischem Druck. In acht von zehn Fällen hat sich dieser in den letzten Jahren verschärft, ein Drittel berichtet sogar über einen deutlich stärkeren Druck als noch vor ein paar Jahren.

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, 2010-06-28 12:49 — WAN-IFRA

En agosto de 2009, la sociedad estadounidense de investigación y consultoría de empresas mediáticas Borrell Associates desató un gran revuelo al pronosticar una reactivación del mercado publicitario del 2,4 por ciento en 2010 y el crecimiento continuado de un solo dígito durante los próximos años para la prensa estadounidense.

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.

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.

Thu, 2010-04-08 15:37 — WAN-IFRA

The WAN-IFRA Study Tour on Multimedia Newsrooms in Europe will visit several companies at the forefront of multimedia news including Ringier in Switzerland, Germany's BILD Zeitung, The Guardian, The Times and Archant in the UK, Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet, and Finland's Helsingin-Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat.

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.

Mon, 2010-06-14 08:14 — WAN-IFRA

In Spring 2010, Australia’s Financial Review Group went live with a fully integrated, multimedia newsroom using the Méthode system from EidosMedia. CEO Michael Gill explained in the following statement, released shortly after the "go-live."

Mon, 2010-06-14 08:16 — WAN-IFRA

At the beginning of June 2010, CCI Europe announced that Telegraaf Media Groep in the Netherlands was consolidating seven of its titles in a CCI data center. The process began in May and is scheduled to be completed by the end of September. Below are details from CCI about this announcement.

Mon, 2010-06-14 08:19 — WAN-IFRA

Newsroom integration: Sun-Times Media signs with DTI

US-based Sun-Times Media is installing DTI's ContentPublisher in DTI Cloud for the company's more than 50 print publications and 60 websites. Among other benefits, the Sun-Times Media's newsrooms will in future be able to share copy editing and page design resources and multimedia content across the group. Read DTI's statement about the order below.

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.

Mon, 2010-09-13 14:03 — WAN-IFRA

Conference summaries: 9th International Newsroom Summit

WAN-IFRA 9th International Newsroom Summit, 8-9 September 2010, Hilton London Canary Wharf, London; 200 participants from 35 countries –

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.

Wed, 2010-11-10 15:45 — Brian Veseling

Cross-media systems:: Responses from DTI

For our Cross-media systems Extra (published Dec. 2010), we asked several cross-media systems suppliers about their developments in this area.

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.

Wed, 2010-11-10 15:48 — Brian Veseling

Cross-media systems: Responses from gogol medien

For our Cross-media systems Extra (published Dec. 2010), we asked several cross-media systems suppliers about their developments in this area.

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.

Tue, 2010-11-23 09:43 — WAN-IFRA

Sistemas cross-media : Respuestas de alfa Media Partner

Para la elaboración de nuestro número especial sobre sistemas de publicación cross-media (publicado en diciembre de 2010), tuvimos la ocasión de hablar con varias empresas proveedoras y averiguar qué es lo que los editores de noticias quieren saber generalmente acerca de las soluciones editoriales que ofrecen y qué desarrollos se esperan en este campo.

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.

Thu, 2010-11-25 12:48 — WAN-IFRA

Sistemas cross-media : Respuestas de Protecmedia

Para nuestro número especial sobre sistemas de edición cross-media (publicado en diciembre de 2010), preguntamos a varias empresas proveedoras cuáles son las cuestiones más frecuentes que las editoras de prensa les plantean y qué desarrollos cabe destacar en este campo.

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.

Fri, 2010-11-26 12:33 — Brian Veseling

Sistemas cross-media: Respuestas de CCI Europe

Para la elaboración de nuestro número especial extra, publicado en diciembre de 2010, nos entrevistamos con diversos proveedores de sistemas cross-media. Nos hablaron de las preguntas que los editores tienen sobre sus soluciones y de los avances que se están llevando a cabo en este campo.

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.

Mon, 2010-11-29 08:14 — Brian Veseling

Sistemas cross-media: Respuestas de Atex

Para la elaboración de nuestro número especial extra, publicado en diciembre de 2010, nos entrevistamos con diversos proveedores de sistemas cross-media. Nos hablaron sobre las preguntas que los editores tienen sobre sus soluciones y sobre los avances que se están llevando a cabo en este campo.

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.

Tue, 2010-11-30 07:43 — Brian Veseling

Sistemas cross-media: Respuestas de SAXOTECH

Para la elaboración de nuestro número especial extra, publicado en diciembre de 2010, nos entrevistamos con diversos proveedores de sistemas cross-media. Nos hablaron sobre las preguntas que los editores tienen sobre sus soluciones y sobre los avances que se están llevando a cabo en este campo.

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.


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