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.

Is the Washington start-up coming soon to a city near you? 

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

Despite an increased focus on violence and physical attacks against the profession, journalists are facing new and different pressures that influence their work, silence their voices and create a chilling effect throughout news media globally. The sustainability of quality journalism is at stake. 

Matt Lindsay will address the challenge of identifying and tapping into the right data to help publishers acquire paying customers and maximize yield from digital advertising inventory and also discuss how their new Listener™ data tool can be used to maximize audience, advertising and content revenues.

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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.