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Christian Unger is the CEO of Ringier, the multimedia publishing group based in Switzerland and the publisher of the daily newspaper Blick. Ringier is a model for media diversification and long-term strategy for growth.
Dean Roper, editor in chief of WAN-IFRA, talked to Unger during the WAN-IFRA Congress in Hyderabad, India, in early December 2009, about Ringier's activities, especially its expansion into other regions of the world. Here is an excerpt of that interview.
Here is the daily wrap-up from Hyderabad, India, on the final events of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress, 16th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2009.
Willem Kok, owner of Graphic Web Systems, the provider of web press printing solutions, said the company has a lot of opportunities to cash in on the retrofit and add-on market, but also other sectors and many regions around the world.
He sat down with Dean Roper, editor in chief of WAN-IFRA, to talk about a number of printing issues. Here is an excerpt of that interview.
Trevor Ncube, executive deputy chairman of Mail & Guardian in South Africa, will head up the launch of a new daily newspaper in Zimbabwe in the next months. The new daily, called "Newsday," will start with an initial circulation of about 20,000 copies and will be published Monday through Friday.
It will require an initial investment of US$ 5 million, and Ncube is quite confident that it is right time to launch the title that he thinks will help heal the recently troubled nation.
Juan Senor, vice president of the International Media Consulting Group, discussed the 2009 Global Report on Innovations in Newspapers. He answered three main questions: What do people want from a newspaper in the 21st century? Where is the money? How do we get there?
Senor predicted that the paper will always be around. Although it will never die, the business model and the content proposition have changed.
UK former Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, says all journalism is investigative.
Nick Davies spoke about his view on investigative journalism during WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum.
A lot of news today consists of garbage such as celebrity news, he said.
Mahasweta Samajdar is an editor for Swarnakshar Prakasani Private Limited in Kolkata, India. In her country, women editors are few, but she says that she did not have problems rising to her position.
Is investigative journalism giving up on newspapers? "No!" stressed Aroon Purie, the founding chairman and editor-in-chief of the India Today Group.
Purie, a well known journalist in India, spoke earlier this afternoon on a panel discussing the abandonment of investigative journalism in newspapers.
"You need smart journalists, determined journalists, people who have a passion for this," Aroon explained.
