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Editors Can Make Better Use of Facebook, Social Media: WEF

2011-07-27 From Twitter and Facebook, to crowdsourcing and gathering readers’ photos, to community events: newspapers now have abundant ways to interact with their readers online. The World Editors Forum, to be held in Vienna from 12 to 15 October next, will focus on the new tools of social media to help editors build communities around their newspapers. Read more ...

Newspapers Find Their Place in A Multi-Media World

2011-07-20 Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO of Norway-based Schibsted, and Eugen Russ, one of the newspaper industry's most innovative publishers, have joined the programme for the 63rd World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from 12 to 15 October next. Read more ...

Hong Kong to Host Digital Media Awards and Conference

2011-07-18 WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, today announced the call for entries for the second Asian Digital Media Awards, which honour individuals and news publishing companies that have embraced digital media as part of their total product offer to reflect how people consume news and information today. Read more ...

New Ad Sales Training Launched for Today's Newspaper Executives

2011-07-13 The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers today launched an international version of the UK's renowned Media Skills Qualification (MSQ) programme, which certifies that newspaper advertising sales and marketing executives are expertly trained for today's multimedia advertising sales market. Read more ...

World’s Press Welcomes First Specialised Media Affairs Magazine for Palestine

2011-07-06 Filling the information vacuum surrounding the Palestinian media, the Palestinian Centre for Development & Media Freedoms (MADA), in conjunction with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), has launched the debut issue of MADA El-E’lam, the first specialised magazine on media affairs in Palestine. Read more ...

Killing of Journalists in Mexico Raises International Concern

2011-06-28 The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called for a thorough investigation into the slaying of Mexican journalist Miguel Ángel López and his family, and have protested to President Felipe Calderón against the culture of impunity that surrounds the murder of journalists in the country. Read more ...

World’s Press Condemns Murder of Indian Journalist

2011-06-27 Following the killing of a high profile reporter in Mumbai, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called on Indian authorities to provide better protection for journalists investigating organized crime. Read more ...

Judges Announced for XMA Cross Media Awards

2011-06-22 Publishers from around the world are submitting their latest paid-for apps to a leading panel of media professionals for the 2011 XMA Cross Media Awards, which will showcase the best smartphone/tablet apps from newspaper and magazine publishers. Read more ...

Hyperlocal is "Past, Present and Future" of Journalism

2011-06-17 Some people say that 'hyperlocal' is the future of journalism. But for Bart Brouwers and editors like him, hyperlocal represents the past, present and the future. Read more ...

Scars of Oppression Run Deep in the Tunisian Media

2011-06-16 If Tunisians are to play an informed part in the transition phase and beyond, they need a free and independent media and a strong, democratic and open civil society to hold power to account, according to the new report from the International Freedom of Expression Exchange - Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG). Read more ...