Online adverts "very intrusive" says Microsoft Online advertizing is "very intrusive", according to Bill Hill, director of advanced reading technologies at Microsoft. More...
Baltics meet Barca in media marriage Priit Hobemagi, Editor-in-Chief of Eesti Paevaleth in Estonia, told the 13th annual World Editors Forum in Moscow how his paper had been revolutionized, thanks to the help of the Cases i Asociats design team based in distant Barcelona. More...
The Mohamed cartoons -- not many lessons learned The hottest debate at this year's World Editor Forum was about - you guessed it - the lessons learned from the Danish cartoon crisis... More...
Voralberger Nachrichten wins innovation award Voralberger Nachrichten, a local newspaper in the Austrian region of Voralberg, won the Media Innovation Award at the 13th annual World Editors Forum in Moscow. The award was decided and presented by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group. More...
Gorbachev buys stake in independent Russian paper Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR, told a private dinner at the 12th annual World Editors Forum that he was buying a stake in Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper considered the most critical of the Kremlin. More...
Experimenting with e-paper: Microsoft, NYT and de Tijd Users are increasingly reading content on a screen as they ditch print to surf the Web. But what happens when they want to read and they're not connected to the Internet? More...
You got to have soul That was the message of Juan Senor of the Innovation International Media Consulting Group, when presenting the 2009 Innovations in Newspapers report. More...
Broadband in India High speed Internet access is not only having a serious impact on newspaper journalism in Western societies. Sanjay Trehan, the head of Broadband Content for India's Times Internet Ltd., owner of the Times of India, enlightened the audience at the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow as to the present and future consequences of broadband for Indian newspapers. More...
Norwegian newspaper on mobile video game gadget The Norwegian daily Dagbladet became the first paper in the world to distribute its content by Playstation Portable, a mobile video game / movie player device. Editor Esten O. Saether traveled to Moscow to explain his paper?s efforts to attract young readers and tell delegates at the 13th World Editors Forum ?How to play more than video games with the readers.? More...
Chrystia Freeland says FT.com finding new ways to reach readers Chrystia Freeland, the US editor of the Financial Times and former editor of FT.com, explained to the 13th Annual World Editors Forum in Moscow how FT.com is using online technology to find new ways of reaching readers. Here are some of the ways she mentioned. More...
Converged newsrooms -- not even up for debate... When it comes to large traditionally print media entities, the Washington Post has always been ahead of the curve on the web side. Washingtonpost.com?s executive editor Jim Brady?s presentation at the World Editor?s Forum in Moscow showed why. Brady told the audience what the Post had done, and what it was planning on doing, to ensure that its newsroom was steeped in the hi-tech art of convergence. More...
Google News: "We're not content creators. We're computer scientists." The world's most popular search engine has been taking flak from news publishers for some time over the alleged "stealing" of content by its news aggregator, Google News. More...
Reuters: "There has never been a better time to be in the news business" The London-based international news agency Reuters is at the forefront of new media innovation. Global Managing Editor for Customer Services Dean Wright talked of his company?s experiences, the changing media landscape and ?Creating a Community of the Informed,? at the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow. More...
Pierre Louette, CEO of AFP: agencies still have role in age of free generation Pierre Louette, the CEO of Agence France Presse, told the 13th annual World Editors Forum in Moscow that while news agencies like AFP faced new challenges from online innovations such as Google News, there would still be a role for agencies in the future, because they were reliable providers of factually accurate news. More...
Russian deputy PM defends Gazprom as media owner Dmitri Medvedev, the deputy prime minister of Russia and potential successor to president Putin, today defended the role of Gazprom, state-owned gas company, as the country's largest owner of media assets. More...
Freedom of speech versus respect for religions is that the real issue? Tuesday?s World Editors Forum meeting ended with an intense debate about the infamous Danish cartoon controversy, and the lessons that might be learned from it. More...
Weekend editions and supplements As newspapers struggle with declining circulations, Saturday and Sunday editions along with supplements have proven to boost sales. George Brock, Saturday Editor of the UK's Times, Jan Jensen, Editor-in-Chief of Ekstra Bladet in Denmark and Berna Gonzalez-Harbour, Sub-director, of the Spanish daily El Pais told the crowd at the 13th World Editors Forum of their papers' experiences with these feature-driven publications. .
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Eastern European paper success stories at the 13th World Editors Forum Success stories from Eastern European newspapers will be presented at the seventh session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which began yesterday (Sunday) in Moscow. More...
WEF meets Russian press, top Russian editors This morning, WEF members will meet the Russian press in Moscow and receive an introduction to the changes taking place in the news industry of the largest country in the world from BBC Monitoring's Len Walker. More...
Eli Noam: Outlook 2010: How newspapers can manage the "free generation" Columbia University?s Eli Noam stirred up some curiosity in the media industry in 2008 prophesizing that newspapers will evolve into ?news integrators.? That curiosity was sated at the 13th World Editors forum where Noam made the keynote speech. More...
News Limited making big push into new media News Limited, the Australian newspaper group owned by Rupert Murdoch's International, is scrambling on all fronts to follow Murdoch's instructions and adjust to the digital revolution, according to Hugh Martin, editor of news.com.au. More...
Does News still need editors? Steve Herrmann, Editor-in-Chief, BBC News Interactive The BBC is argued by some to be the ?Mainstream Media? organization most advanced in its adoption of Internet innovations, especially in including the audience in its newsgathering. Steve Herrmann, (position) at the BBC traveled to Moscow to explain to the delegates at the 13th World Editors Forum how the interactivity of the digital age is affecting journalism and editors around the globe. More...
Creating community through hyperlocal blogging, Steve Yelvington, Vice-President of Content and Strategy, Morris Digital Works It is no secret that online journalism has made any information available to anyone at any time and has been cutting into the audience and business models of traditional newspapers. So how are conventional publications going to compete and persist? Steve Yelvington, Vice President of Content and Strategy at Morris Digital Works tried to answer these questions at the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow.
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The future of news, e-papers at the 13th World Editors Forum From tabloid to tablets: the future of news and e-papers will be the topic presented at the sixth session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which begins Sunday in Moscow. More...
Nel the first academic to join WEF The director of the Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, Francois Nel is the first academic accepted as a member of the World Editors Forum (WEF) of the World Association of Newspapers. More...
Mohammed cartoon clash at the 13th World Editors Forum Lessons from the Mohammed cartoon clash will be the focus of the fifth session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which begins June 4 in Moscow. More...
Weekend editions at the 13th World Editors Forum Weekend winners: Saturday/Sunday editions and supplements will be the topic of the fourth session of the 13th World Editors Forum, set to begin June 4 in Moscow. More...
Web portals, news agencies at the 13th World Editors Forum Web portals and news agencies: new threats to newspapers? The question will be explored at the third session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which begins June 4 in Moscow. More...
Convergence at the 13th World Editors Forum Convergence II: Multimedia is now ready for print. The second session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which begins June 4 in Moscow, will address this topic. More...
Citizen journalism at the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow Should newspapers welcome citizen journalists? That's the focus of the first session of the 13th World Editors Forum, which starts Sunday, June 4 in Moscow. More...
New Initiative at World Editors Forum: Editors Weblog Workshop Newspaper editors attending the upcoming World Editors Forum will have an opportunity to use new media tools in a unique "Editors Weblog Workshop" that will run throughout the conference, to be held from 4 to 7 June in Moscow, Russia. More...
New media training for editors at the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow The Editors Weblog and Visual Editors are joining forces to bring a new feature to the world's gathering for newspaper editors. Robb Montgomery, CEO of VizEds, and I will be getting crazy with citizen journalism tools to show editors how they can integrate them into the newsroom in order to enrich their reporting. More...
Yahoo!, Google and the News Agencies: Threats or Partners to Newspapers? The director of Google News and the general manager of Yahoo! News will participate in a debate at the upcoming World Editors Forum on the impact of new competition from news aggregators and news agencies on traditional newsrooms. More...
Local Newspaper Creates New Web Model Ever hear of Bluffton, South Carolina? If you are a newspaper professional, you should know about this small US community of 15,000 people, where a new model for newspapers and newspaper web sites is succeeding. More...
World Editors Forum To Examine Cartoon Clash The Danish newspaper at the heart of the Mohammed cartoon clash has agreed to discuss the controversy in a special session at the World Editors Forum conference to be held in Moscow in June. More...
Traditional, New Media Come Together at World Press Meetings Wikipedia is not usually mentioned in the same breath as leading newspaper companies such as News International or Axel Springer, but they will come together in Moscow in June at the 59th World Newspaper Congress, 13th World Editors Forum, and Info Services Expo 2009, the global meetings of the world's press. More...
Editorial Strategies for the "Free Generation" Many young readers are accustomed to getting their news for free -- from the internet and from free newspapers. More...
Expanding Editors Weblog Calls for Contributions The World Editors Forum has re-launched its popular Editors Weblog (www.editorsweblog.org) with a new design that puts more emphasis on analysing newspaper trends. More...
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