The Newsroom Barometer examines attitudes about newsroom strategies, new business models, leadership, and the future of news in the digital era, and will provide a picture of how editors foresee the future of their jobs and the future of journalism.

"The aim of the Newsroom Barometer is to gain better knowledge of the changes in newsrooms through the eyes of editors-in-chief and senior news executives," said Bertrand Pecquerie, Executive Director of the World Editors Forum. "Every two years since 2006, we poll on some of the same questions, and track important shifts at news organizations around the world. The goal is that the survey becomes a tool for helping editors-in-chief to improve both their newsroom strategy and their newsroom management."

Eric Hazan, Partner in McKinsey & Company, will present the Newsroom Barometer results on 8 June. The Newsroom Barometer survey is carried out in April and May 2010; editors-in-chief and other senior newsroom executives who wish to participate can contact Mr Pecquerie by e-mail at bpequerie@wan.asso.fr.

The 17th World Editors Forum, along with the 63rd World Newspaper Congress and Info Services Expo, are expected to bring up to 1,500 chief editors, publishers, managing directors and other senior newspaper executives to Lebanon. The events, organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and hosted by the An-Nahar newspaper, are the global summit meetings of the world’s press.

Full information, including programme and registration details, can be found at www.wanlebanon2010.com.

The Editors Forum will focus on key issues for today’s editors, who must manage both the collective intelligence of a newsroom and the collective intelligence of bloggers, users and readers. Instead of one unique platform, they have to pilot a minimum of four platforms - print, online, mobile, e-reader/tablet - and five storytelling styles - alerts, written articles, podcasts, video reports and social media buzz.

Speakers include:

  Marcus Brauchli, Executive Editor, Washington Post, USA;

  Bart Brouwers, Managing Editor for Hyperlocal Online Media, Telegraaf Media Group, The Netherlands;

  Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager, Google News, Google, USA;

  Alfredo Triviño, Director of Creative Projects, News International, UK;

  Wataru Sawamura, Foreign Editor, Asahi Shimbun, Japan.

  Abdel-Moniem Said, Chairman of the Board, Al-Ahram group in Egypt;

  Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of ProPublica, USA;

-Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press;

  Ricardo Gandour, Director and Executive Editor, O Estado de S. Paulo Group, Brazil.

Plus many others. Details of the evolving programmes can be found here.

The events will, as always, be accompanied by a rich social programme, tours, meetings with local and international political, business and cultural leaders, and more. Among the highlights: an opening cocktail at the Couvent St Jean, a convent on a hillside above the city; a Lebanese folklore evening on the Mediterranean in Byblos, said to be the oldest inhabited city in the world; and a gala closing dinner at the Beiteddine Palace, the former seat of the Lebanese Emirs.

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.