This year’s report, unveiled at the WEF annual conference in Göteborg, Sweden, focuses on eight major themes, drawn from discussions throughout the year among print and digital editors on the WEF Editors Weblog, www.editorsweblog.org:

  Change your newsroom’s culture before changing your newsroom.

  Non-integrated newsrooms: separation with cooperation.

  Complete multimedia convergence: the modernization of the printed word.

  Training print journalists for the multimedia newsroom.

  Invite your audience into your newsroom.

  Online video breaks the print mold.

  Move with your audience: go mobile.

  Top print and web designs.

The 180-page report, a complete, analytical guide to the monumental transformations taking place in the newspaper industry, includes details about how newspapers are adapting to the changing media landscape, interviews with top media executives and commentators, detailed descriptions of innovations at some of the world’s most recognized newspapers, and much more.

It also includes the results of the Newsroom Barometer, a survey of newspaper editors around the world about the future of newspapers.

Full details are available at www.trends-in-newsrooms.org.

George Brock, outgoing President of the World Editors Forum, said the Barometer “banishes any idea that editors are gloomy or pessimistic about the future or that they have been slow in adapting to the changes which digital technology has wrought.”

“Online news and opinion has now been with us for long enough to see that no prediction about the future of news which is based on technology alone can tell us the future,” Mr Brock said in introduction to the report.

“Newspapers are not just ink marks on squashed trees: they are what people trust, they amuse people, in short they are a collection of ideas and information with which a reader forms a relationship. Where journalism - whether professional, citizen or any mixture of the two - creates that relationship, something lasting is born and can be sustained,” he said.

The Paris-based World Editors Forum (www.worldeditorsforum.org) is the organisation of the World Association of Newspapers that represents editors-in-chief and other senior news executives. WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, represents 18,000 newspapers; its membership includes 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and 11 regional and world-wide press groups.

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, WAN, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: lkilman@wan.asso.fr.