Wonderfully organized Extremely valuable Impressed Outstanding Congress Hugely beneficial Well done! Hugely successful Success Excellent speakers Very useful Quality of the speakers Wonderful experience "Once again your superb organisational skills ensured a productive conference. The speakers at WEF get better each year; unfortunately I cannot be as much on the WAN side as I would like to. What I particularly appreciate are the increasing opportunities to interact socially with delegates, not only editors but also publishers." Good orientation Remarkable success Very professional
Cape Town, South Africa - June 2007
"It’s a great place for us to catch up with many publishers in one place and learn about the current interests and challenges. The conference was wonderfully organised."
Richard Ullyett, Director, Content licensing, Europe, Dow Jones
"I want to thank you very well for inviting me to the WAN congress. It was extremely valuable in all ways."
Kwame Karikari, Executive Director, Media Foundation for West Africa, Ghana
"WAN did it again. The quality of the conferences and the administrative set up was perfect in Cape Town. I’m impressed."
Lars Munch, CEO, JP/Politikens Hus A/S - Denmark
"Many congratulations to you and all the WAN team on another outstanding congress and editors forum. Cape Town was a great venue with magnificent conference facilities and in particular I would ask you to pass the sincere thanks and appreciation of both Paula and myself to Trevor Ncube, Cathy Pestana and the many sponsors for the tremendous welcome and hospitality. It was a great African experience and we certainly plan to return."
Frank Cullen, Coordinating Director, National Newspapers of Ireland
"Congratulations on organising a wonderful conference which is hugely beneficial for me, as I am succeeded to make new friends. I am planning to transfer newly acquired skills to my colleagues at The Rural Media Network Pakistan and Daily Nawa-I-AhmedpurSharqia. Many many thanks for providing me this matchless opportunity."
Ehsan Ahmed Sehar, Chief Editor/Publisher, Daily Nawa-I-AhmedpurSharqia Pakistan
"Congratulations are due for an excellent congress, arguably the best I’ve attended both from a content and organisational point of view. I also found this year’s opening ceremony particularly poignant and uplifting. Well done!"
Bruce Sturgeon, CEO, Caxton Community Newspapers - South Africa
"As South Africans, we are so proud that, under your leadership, WAN/WEF staged a historic and hugely successful summit in our beautiful country. We remain proud to be members of this illustrious organisation whose commitment to the health of our industry knows no bounds. See you in Sweden!"
Jovial Rantao, Editor, Sunday Independent, South Africa
"Thanks for all your help. From what little I saw, it seemd to me that the entire congress went off without a hitch. Certainly my session went very smoothly, and I’m grateful for all your assistance with material challenges we faced in getting all the logistics ironed out."
Michael E. Raynor, Author and Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP, United States
"It is note worthy that the South Africa outing was a huge success."
James Bello, Editor-in-Chief, News Agency of Nigeria
"As regards my views about the conference proceedings; I must commend you for the level of excellent speakers you paraded at the conference center. your erudite speakers were journalistically soul touching and healing. Many of the participants were overwhelmed by these guys palatable presentations. Let me also say that the organization of the different events at the conference hall and on the outside were absolutely incredible and fantastic. Every day that came was colourful and exciting. The hospitality provided us from Liberia by WAN and the Editors Forum was exceptionally warmed and unique. I must also salute you for that."
Robert Kpadeh,Jr., Monrovia, Liberia
"I am very pleased to have received your message, which is once again a testimony of your devotion to further the promotion of our profession on our continent. The way you have organized these meetings needs absolutely no comment - no one has any hesitation about returning to Cape Town thanks to your first-class hospitality. The debates, the sessions and the discussions have been very useful to us, and it might be also beneficial next time to invite other high rank leaders, and why not Heads of States who try to respect press freedom in their own country and could testify to their action. Other than that, we thank you once again for your impeccable organization and your efforts to promote WAN. Looking forward to see you soon during one of your next meetings."
Jean Léonard Rugambage, Journalist, UMUCO, Rwanda
"I was particularly stricken by the quality of the speakers during the 60th World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town. The richness of these meetings has to this day never been equaled as far as I am concerned for it contribues positively to improving the activities of my newspaper company: in other words, to its prosperity. This is why I am very interested in all future events, activities and training courses organized by WAN."
Marcel Ngoyi Ngoyi Kyengi, Editeur de La Prospérité
Bachi Karkaria, Consultant Editor, The Times of India _
"What a wonderful experience participation in the WNC was!Not only were the meetings most informative and educational, it was also inspiring - which is perhaps the most valuable of all. As a small country newspaper publisher, competing with the largest publishing group in South Africa, I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend, made possible by your personal mediation in obtaining such an enormous discount on the congress fees. Thank you very much for that. The professional manner in which the entire congress activities were planned and executed, was very impressive indeed and the acceptance speech of the annual award winner’s mother, was a moving moment at the opening ceremony. I walked away from the 60th World Newspaper Congress, feeling very privileged and enriched. Than you once again."
Hans Steyl, Gold-NETNEWS _
"South Africa was a magnificent touristic, human, and overall, professional experience. I have been reading over what I heard at the conference in order to write a report for our Deputy Director at El Colombiano in which I am highlighting the depth of the themes covered at the conference. Furthermore, the subjects covered at the conference touched very close to our own concerns such as what is the future of the printed paper and whether or not traditional papers will become free, niche or more local publications. The surveys presented were a good orientation of how we perceive the journalistic enterprise and which problems we all share. Ana-Mercedes Gómez-Martínez, El Colombiano, Medellín I must congratulate you and your team on the remarkable success of the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town and please accept my heartfelt thankfulness for organizing a great event like this every year."
Thanachai Theerapatvongn, Nation Group
"I want to thank you and your team for very professional organization skills. I could not find anything to complain about."
Ria Loggenberg, Redakteur / Editor, Centurion Nuus/News, Pretoria, South Africa
