The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is looking well beyond the current generation of newsrooms and has dedicated its 9th International Newsroom Summit to helping publishers and editors stay ahead of the changes that are profoundly shaping their world.
Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press, has joined the programme of the World Editors Forum and will address a new development in the news business that would have been unthinkable a few years ago – newspapers reducing their coverage by dropping their subscriptions to news agencies.
While much attention is paid to the advances made by internet and other digital news delivery channels, traditional print technologies have been advancing as well. Though these developments often get less public attention, they are just as significant for the future of the news business.
Dover Post Newspaper Publications prepared for the winter snow storms by giving free access to their online e-editions of Dover Post and Smyrna Sun Times for Wednesday. A username and password to access the printed publications was provided on their websites home page as they feared delivery to areas would be delayed until Thursday.
Print circulation alone no longer accurately represents the true measure of newspaper audiences. And website traffic, by itself, doesnt say much, either.
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has agreed to open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, the global summit meetings of the worlds press, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7-10 June next.
Geoff Tan, the Senior Vice President and Head of Strategic Marketing for Singapore Press Holdings, has joined the programme for the World Newspaper Advertising Conference, to be held on 4 and 5 March next in Copenhagen, Denmark.
