R.AGE, the youth initiative of The Star in Malaysia, has taken the top award in the annual World Young Reader Prize of WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, for its innovative use of video, compelling journalistic storytelling and audience involvement in ways that can inform news publishers around the world.
Brazilian newspaper provides visitors to the Olympic Games 2016 with their daily information
Trelleborg is to use the forthcoming WAN IFRA conference – 21st – 22nd September, Swisshotel, Kolkata, India – to announce its increased focus on the Indian newspaper market. The company has recently appointment Maniraju Bora as Sales and Technical Director for the South West Asia region. He has worked in the industry for more than 25 years and has an excellent technical knowledge of offset printing blankets and newspaper presses.
Kenya-based Nation Media Group (NMG) was founded in 1959 by the Aga Khan as a voice for the African population as it sought independence. Today, NMG is the largest independent media company in East and Central Africa, and publishes print newspapers, including Kenya’s Daily Nation and Tanzania’s The Citizen, and digital media.
The New York Times today introduced an NYT en Español edition of its news app for Android that features all of the content available on the Spanish-language website The New York Times en Español.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will hold its 69th World News Media Congress, 24th World Editors Forum, and 27th World Advertising Forum in Durban, South Africa, from 7th to 9th June 2017. It will be only the second time the World News Media Congress has come to the African continent following the success of the Cape Town event in 2007. The Congress is part of a broader plan to expand activities in Africa and connect with colleagues who are leading the media transformation across the continent.
The new members of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2016-2018 (INCQC) have been announced by WAN-IFRA: 85 newspaper titles produced by 64 publishing and printing companies in 26 countries have achieved membership for two years.
