Some of the world’s leading Publishers, CEOs, chief editors managing editors and other senior newsroom personnel will gather in London on 21 and 22 April next to exchange ideas and get inspiration to help them take today’s newsrooms to the next level.

Among them: Raju Narisetti, Managing Editors of the Washington Post; Will Lewis, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Telegraph; Rainer Esser, Managing Editor of Die Zeit; Marc Walder, CEO for Ringier publications in Switzerland and Germany; George Brock, Professor and Head of Journalism at City University London and former Managing Editor of The Times of London; Christian Thorkildsen, News Editor for web TV at Aftenposten; Martim Avillez Figueirado, Director of "i" in Portugal; and many others.

Full details of the conference, which will be preceded by a one-day Newsplex workshop on editorial management and reorganisation and a tour of the Telegraph newsroom, can be found at www.ifra.com/newsroomsummit.

"Newsroom strategy is profoundly affected by changes in society and technology. What do newsrooms have to consider to keep a step ahead, and what comes after the media-integrated newsroom? The conference will help answer these questions," said Dietmar Schantin, Executive Director for Publishing, Editorial, and General Management at WAN-IFRA.

"Clearly, the growing importance of ’virtual’ communities, such as Facebook, are redefining how people socialise and share information," he said. "The growth of permanent, mobile, broadband and wireless connections point to the expanding use of mobile phones and other devices. And these developments make is easier for news consumer to personalize the content they receive."

Conference sessions will focus on these issues: multi-title newsrooms; innovative publishing; paid content; social media and audience engagement; multimedia newsrooms; ’finger food’ content for smartphones; innovative story telling; and more.

For the evolving conference programme and registration details, please consult [>www.ifra.com/newsroomsummit].

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.

Learn more about WAN-IFRA at www.wan-ifra.org or through the WAN-IFRA Magazine.

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA, 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: larry.kilman@wan-ifra.org.