This practical workshop will give you tools to increase the power of your online videos. It will also show you how USA Today is using Periscope to live stream. Workshop by Randy Covington and Tanya Sichynsky.

The 2015 Golden Pen of Freedom has been awarded to Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty. The Golden Pen of Freedom is an annual award, made by WAN-IFRA since 1961, to recognize the outstanding action, in writing or deed, of an individual, a group or an institution in the cause of press freedom. The award is given during the Opening Ceremony.

American newspapers were the first to face the digital transformation and there are many lessons to be learned from their experience of managing it. This panel will share the experiences of top CEOs from leading media houses of what went well and what went wrong. What opportunities do they see now?

WAN-IFRA collects data from more than 70 countries thanks to the very positive support of national newspaper and media associations and its data partners: Zenith Optimedia, IPSOS, ComScore and RAM. The 2015 World Press Trends report is a unique snapshot of the global newspaper industry.

A short video highlighting news events since our last World News Media Congress in Torino, which will underpin insights from Agence France-Presse's Global Editor-in-Chief Phil Chetwynd on some of the difficult decisions that lie behind global news coverage. 

Publishers and editors have a common responsibility to face the challenges posed by tech companies and cooperate in order to compete with engineered news and algorithms.

Learn how to use audience data to target the right editorial - and branded - content to increase engagement and digital revenue. The session will include a customer case study presentation by Eric Bright, Vice President of Ecommerce, at Deseret Digital Media (DDM), who will share DDM’s vision of using data to drive engagement and improve their business.

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The New York Times Innovation Report, produced by an internal newsroom team and published in May of last year, identified major issues and challenges facing the newspaper in the digital world. After reading the recommendations in the report, many news publishers around the world interrogated their own newsrooms. So what has happened since its publication? Has The New York Times followed its own advice?

We call attention to editors who are making a difference and have overcome social, political and legal obstacles.

Media companies are aware that they need to adapt their organization, but it often takes an outsider to accelerate the tempo. Transform and position a media company for success in the digital age. 

What is the “Attention Economy”? Does this affect how ad inventories are positioned, sold and priced? Are there differences in how people around the world engage with content? What is the real impact of unattributed traffic (a bucket of traffic referred to as “dark social”) and are there solutions for it? The responses are provided by a data scientist and will therefore be based on data analysis.

Doing more with fewer resources is a constant challenge for newsroom evolving towards a mobile future. Innovative editors share their strategies.

No one should be concerned more about keeping the internet open and free than news publishers, yet until now they have not engaged in a discussion that lies at the heart of their ability to do their jobs.  

For further information, please contact:

Ralf Ressmann
Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

WAN-IFRA
Rotfeder-Ring 11
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Office +49 69 24 00 63-0
Direct +49 69 24 00 63-251
E-Mail ralf.ressmann@wan-ifra.org

A session highlighting the pioneers who are using algorithms, explanatory journalism and new formats for enhanced storytelling.

Major media companies share how they integrate innovation into their working process.

Investigative journalism is at risk due to the erosion of source protection in the digital era. Speakers at this breakfast session will discuss the growing problem internationally and what you can do about it.

What we can learn from The New York Times and The Washington Post about involving your audience in what you do, and how to navigate the ethics of it all.

Share the successes of the newsroom pioneers tackling 3-D journalism, virtual-reality storytelling, the use of drones and mobile scanners by journalists. Hear what’s next.

Intellectual property is a global priority for publishers. Likewise, net neutrality has sparked heated debates in the U.S. and throughout the world, and the right to be forgotten promises to become an issue across the Atlantic.

In 2015 publishers, internet giants and private citizens often find themselves engaging more and more passionately in debates around media policy, with alliances changing dramatically depending on the topic.

WAN-IFRA brings this debate to the 2015 World Newspaper Congress where legal experts, international institutions and practitioners will contribute to help clarify where we stand, and where we are headed.

For more information about the World Media Policy Forum and to register, please click here.