Explore how to break down barriers to optimise your newsroom for editorial and commercial success! Join editors and experts leading the digital media revolution for one and a half days of networking, discussion and case studies. It’s an investment that will help you:

• Rethink your boundaries: geographic, platform, audience, team;
• Remap your newsroom, its tools, people and processes;
• Remove traditional, outmoded walls;
• Reskill for a mobile future and any further digital disruption.

The Summit will highlight the latest trends in newsroom TV, sponsored content, security and surveillance as well as mobile storytelling. Our speakers will present which newsroom walls need to come down to enable true integration and which should remain to preserve integrity.

TUESDAY, 8 OCTOBER

14:30 - 14: 40 Welcome

Wolfgang Krach, Deputy Editor in Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

Erik Bjerager, President World Editors Forum, Denmark

Presentation of World Young Reader Prize for Editorial to Avisa Nordland, Norway. Accepting the prize is Jan Eirik Hanssen, chief editor

14:40 - 16:00 Evolution or revolution?

Minor and continual newsroom adjustments may not be enough to stay ahead of the accelerating technology-driven change. Are more revolutionary changes to newsrooms, their boundaries and practices needed?  

Wolfgang Krach, Deputy Editor in Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

Is it time to rethink our newsrooms, yet again?

Raju Narisetti, Senior Vice President and Deputy Head of Strategy for News Corp, USA.

Reinventing the article: we're not printing digital newspapers

Anthony de Rosa, Editor-in-Chief, Circa, USA

Social media and predictive analytics in the newsroom of the future

Steffen Konrath, Managing Director, Editor-in-Chief, Liquid Newsroom, Germany

16:00 - 16:30  coffee break

16:30 - 17:30 Newsrooms of the future

Case studies from diverse newspapers:  how Editors are maximizing their resources to produce compelling, integrated content for different platforms.

Rob Montgomery, International Journalist, Germany

Integrated storytelling at Zeit online 

Jochen Wegner, Editor in Chief, Zeit Online, Germany

Reshaping the Independent’s newsrooms for TV

Chris Blackhurst, Group Content Director, The Independent, UK

Who needs a TV station?

Marc Jungnickel, Manager Web TV, Bild.de, Germany

WEDNESDAY, 9 OCTOBER

10:00- 11:00 Audience engagement

Getting and keeping audience is critical. But how much should you give away to grow your community? Some divergent and novel successful case studies to help you build your audience.

Peter Littger, PremiumMedia Content consulting, Germany

Rethinking Facebook, Globo.com

Mariana Correa Esteves, Product Development Manager, Globo.com, Brazil

Leandro Gejfinbein, Head of Market Intelligence and Analytics, Globo.com, Brazil

Engaging Audiences from El Correo’s Information Kitchen

Diego Zúňiga García-Falces, Art Director, El Correo, Spain

The new journalistic long tail: creating a blog community in content websites

Grig Davidovitz, CEO, RGB Media, Israel

11:00 - 11:30  coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Security and surveillance

The extent of national surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden poses a grave threat to journalism. How can journalists communicate and protect their sources and research in this digital world?

Galina Sidorova, Foundation for Investigative Journalism – Foundation 19/29, Russia

Surveillance: why editors need to stand together

Michael Jarlner,International Editor, Assisting Chief Editor, Politiken,Denmark

Staying below the radar

Alan Pearce, journalist, author, France

Alison Smale, Berlin Bureau Chief, The New York Times, Germany

Erik Bjerager, President World Editors Forum, Denmark

Panel discussion with leading editors

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch and Expo

14:30 – 15:00 The rise of sponsored content: is it journalism?

Corporate newsrooms are churning out content at an ever increasing rate and finding accommodation for their output on news websites. In a world where new revenue streams are critical, do we need to do more to distinguish journalism from sponsored or branded content?

Branded content

Ebele Wybenga, Journalist, author, The Netherlands

Panel discussion with leading editors

15:00 - 16:30  Re-engineering journalism

Journalism’s prospects look good, despite financial pressure on traditional newsrooms. A generation of young, digitally minded journalists are bringing a creative and can-do attitude to professional challenges. Hear how they are being trained and helping to invigorate newsrooms, bringing new levels of excellence to core digital storytelling.  

Kerry Northrup, Creator Newsplex, multimedia Professor Western Kentucky University, USA

Experimentation in newsrooms

George Brock, Professor and Head of Journalism, City University, UK

Fusion Journalists

Kerry Northrup, Creator Newsplex, multimedia Professor Western Kentucky University, USA

New wave storytellers

Mario Garcia, CEO and Founder, Garcia Media, USA: Hearst Digital Media Professor, Columbia University, USA

16:30 - 16:45  Engaging the Millennials

Aralynne McMane, Executive Director for young readership development, WAN-IFRA, France

“We want you” campaign

Anne Jacobsen, Chief Analyst, Amedia, Norway

16:45 - 17:30 Launch of Online Content Moderation report

Larry Kilman, Executive Director of Communications and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA, France