Journalists killed worldwide – an online list from WAN
70 journalists were killed worldwide in 2008, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), said in a release today. The journalists and other media employees were killed worldwide ‘because of their...
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Wordle: Rupert Murdoch’s optimism for print future
Rupert Murdoch gives the preface to this year’s World Association of Newspapers (WAN) Innovations in Newspapers 2009 World Report. Below is a Wordle of Murdoch’s comments (as quoted in a WAN release),...
View ArticleThomas Crampton: Telling WAN-IFRA how it really is
Today in Kuala Lumpur, former International Herald Tribune journalist Thomas Crampton will address the newly merged industry body WAN-IFRA in a keynote speech on social media. But Crampton says the...
View ArticleCalling newspaper executives – participate in WAN-IFRA’s annual survey
The newly-merged World Association of Newspapers-IFRA is joining forces with the University of Central Lancashire and the Norwegian School of Management to conduct a survey for 2009 on ‘World Newspaper...
View Article#WANIndia2009: Coverage of the World Association of Newspapers’ conference...
Journalism.co.uk is attending the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and World Editors Forum’s annual conferences running in Hyderabad, India, from today until Thursday 3 December. Befitting of its...
View Article#WANIndia2009: There’s gold in them there mobiles – don’t blow it, says...
“Please don’t blow it – there’s a big opportunity for mobile with newspaper companies,” was Martha Stone, director of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project, opening statement to the World...
View Article#WANIndia2009: Social media for news orgs – a global perspective
Consider this a trailer for a bigger piece I’ll be posting from the World Association of Newspapers’ (WAN) conference currently taking place in India on how news organisations across the globe are...
View Article#WANIndia2009: Najam Sethi’s speech on Pakistan and press freedom in full
Pakistani editor Najam Sethi was yesterday awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom award at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference. In his speech – reproduced below courtesy of WAN – Sethi, who...
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#WANIndia2009: Geotagging and VG.no’s News Portal
Schibsted-owned Norwegian newspaper VG.no isn’t just a newspaper – it’s also a software developer, having built a system for readers to send in stories, news tips and images by mobile. The technology...
View Article#WANIndia2009: Serving the biggest circulation in the world – The Times of India
“Treat your reader as you would your CEO,” says Ravi Dhariwal, CEO publishing for Bennett, Coleman & Co. (Times Group), India, admitting to his obsession with readers. Without patronising them,...
View Article#WANIndia2009: Women editors-in-chief and women readers – should we be having...
“When I walk into an editorial meeting, I am an editor, just an editor – that’s it.” So said Champika Liyanaarachchi, editor-in-chief of the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror, as part of a panel at the World...
View Article#WANIndia2009: Audio – Google’s David Drummond on working with publishers
There was a more peaceful air on stage at yesterday’s closing debate of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference, entitled What do we do about Google? David Drummond, senior vice president...
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#WANIndia2009: What’s hot and what’s not in the newspaper industry’s world?
Based on the sessions that Journalism.co.uk attended and the delegates we spoke to there were some clear winners and losers at this year’s World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference and...
View ArticleWAN: Newspaper industry body calls for release of Burmese journalists
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has written to Burma’s military junta asking for the release of two Burmese journalists and an end to the repression of journalists working in the country....
View Article#WEFHamburg: WaPo mulling its own paywall plus all the news from the World...
Yesterday at the World Editors Forum in Hamburg, Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Washington Post, told Journalism.co.uk that the Post was not ruling out its own paid-content model. The quality...
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