Over 150 close friends and well-wishers of the Falls Church News-Press and its founder-owner Nicholas F. Benton crowded into the News-Press’ office yesterday to celebrate the weekly newspaper’s 1,000th consecutive edition.
Jim Freeman, Trading Director and head of the Telegraph Media Groups cross-media sales team Create, has joined the programme of the WAN-IFRA Advertising Summit, to be held in Hamburg, Germany on 7 October just following the IFRA Expo.
Pius Njawé, the Cameroonian publisher who was killed in a traffic accident last week, was “an authentic and truly rare hero” in the struggle for press freedom in Africa, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said in a tribute to his courage and achievements.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu of South Africa has endorsed the Declaration of Table Mountain, a media industry call to African heads of state to repeal insult and criminal defamation laws and place a free press higher on the political agenda.
The IFRA Expo, to be held in Hamburg, Germany from 4 to 6 October next, is not only the largest global trade exhibition for the news publishing and media industry – it has become a comprehensive event for networking, seminars and advanced training as well.
