When Arab governments talk about press freedom and democracy, their words rarely lead to action, participants at the 4th Arab Free Press Forum said Sunday, as the two-day conference on the state of the independent Arab press opened in Beirut.
The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public media organization based in San Francisco, announced that it will provide branded local news content to The New York Times for its Bay Area pages beginning this Friday, June 4. The New York Times’s Bay Area section was launched in October 2009 and currently features editorial coverage written by The Times’s San Francisco news bureau and other contributors.
The World Editors Forum has spent the past year tracking developments in newsrooms around the world for its annual Trends in Newsrooms report, and has come up with four key areas of concern for editors everywhere:
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will offer the fifth edition of its Summer University from 5 to 7 July next in St. Paul de Vence on the French Riviera.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has announced that its 10th annual Publish Asia conference, which was to be held in Bangkok this month, will now take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 3 to 5.
Publishers from all over the world are now submitting their projects for the XMA Cross Media Awards 2010 – and there is still time to join them.
A new report that examines the environmental implications of green strategies for newspaper companies has just been published by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
