Newspaper & Mailroom
The 2015 Newsroom: What Top Editors Think
Thursday 20. August 2009 - Editors from around the globe will gather in Prague on 1 and 2 October next to discuss ways to maintain high quality editorial standards with low cost solutions, in a new conference dedicated to the newsroom of 2015.
The conference, organised by the World Editors Forum and PPF Media at the Futuroom multimedia training centre in Prague, was created to address the economic impact on newsroom operations and help editors find low-cost solutions that wont damage their journalistic standards.
“The World Editors Forum understands the latest management constraints and the financial restraints that are now part of the daily lives of Editors-in-chief,” said Bertrand Pecquerie, the WEF Director. “The conference – with two panels and five sessions — will offer solutions to a wide variety of challenges. And since editors cannot take long trips and their budgets have shrunk, weve kept costs down for all participants.”
Full details of the 2015 Newsroom Conference can be found at www.2015newsroom.com.
Sessions include:
“How editors foresee the 2015 newsroom”, with Ezio Mauro, Editor-in-chief of La Repubblica in Italy; Espen Egil Hansen, Editor-in-chief of VG Multimedia in Norway; Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Editor-in-chief of Der Standard in Austria; and George Brock, Head of Journalism at the City University of London and former managing editor of The Times.
“Visual journalism: the rise of non-narrative news,” featuring a keynote speech by Mario Garcia, CEO and Founder of Garcia Media, and a panel of Joerdis Guzman Bulia, Art Director for Welt am Sonntag in Germany; Robb Montgomery, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, visualeditors.com, USA; and others to be announced.
“Free internet versus paid online content? Which business models to choose for news?”, a panel featuring Matt Kelly, Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror and mirror.co.uk; a representative from Google News; and others to be announced.
“The mobile/Twitter revolution: how the real-time web is changing the news process,” with Martha Stone, Director of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and other panelists to be announced.
“How to set up a web TV team within your newsroom”, with Anders Refnov, Web TV manager for Ekstrabladet in Denmark, and Antoni Esteve, Director of Lavinia in Spain.
“Hyperlocal news: the explosion of traditional regional media”, which will examine the growth of successful hyperlocal news operations and their potential for traditional newspaper companies. The session will feature Roman Gallo, Director for Media Strategies of PPF, whose Nase Adresa in the Czech Republic is a prime example of the new business model.
“Personalized news and the semantic web: what added value for journalism?”, which will feature Freddy Mini, CEO of Netvibes of France and the United States; Jan Bierhoff, Director of the European Centre for Digital Communications at Zuyd University in The Netherlands, Reynald Lemaire, a Partner at Anals-IT in Belgium; and Jerome Laredo, the European Director for ATEX (all speakers to be confirmed).
Full details, including registration information, can be found at www.2015newsroom.com.
A related study tour in Prague, to examine the hyperlocal news operations of Nase Adresa, is also available. Full details of the tour, to be held on 29 and 30 September, are available here.
Participants in the 2015 Newsroom Conference are also being offered a special rate if they wish to attend the World Young Reader Conference, set for Prague from 27 to 30 September. Details about the biennial conference, which is back in Europe for the first time in six years, can be found here.