The three-day seminar, limited to 25 participants, offers a unique opportunity to consider and reaffirm the overall direction of publications, integrate new strategies, and redefine the organisation of newsrooms.

The three-day seminar will focus on how evolving news consumption behaviour, the multiplicity of reading devices, and new multimedia strategies are having a profound impact on newsroom operations, requiring new strategies, new workflows and new working methods.

Full details can be found at www.wan-ifra.org/summeruniversity2010 (select language from the list at the left of the page).

This seminar, led by an international team with experience in media and leadership, will allow participants to step back and reflect on the fundamental values and services of newspapers while finding new ideas to serve the needs of the always on, always connected new news consumer.

The team includes:

  Randy Covington, training director of the WAN-IFRA Newsplex Training Centre at the University of South Carolina, USA. Mr Covington works worldwide with news organizations in the areas of new media story telling, newsroom organization and newsroom management.

  Jonathan Halls, Principal of Jonathan Halls & Associates and a former top training executive with the BBC in London and Adjunct Professor at George Washington University in Washington DC. He works with media companies and major industries to develop their leadership teams.

  Madeline Finnerty, president of Finnerty International in the USA, who specializes in leadership and change processes.

High-profile newspaper professionals from the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Agence France-Presse, Gazeta Wyborcza and other media companies will also share their strategies and experiences.

The Summer University concept has become so successful that WAN-IFRA is launching an Asian version, a week-long residential programme to be held in Hyderabad, India, from 7 to 13 July next. The leadership development programme, a first-of-its kind on the Indian sub-continent, will be conducted in association with the Indian School of Business and 9.9 School of Convergence. Full details can be found at www.wan-ifra.org/southasia.

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.

Please address all queries to: Sandrine Proton, Event Manager, WAN-IFRA Southwest Europe, 66, Cours Charlemagne, 69002 Lyon, France, Tél : + 33 4 72 77 05 95 ­ Fax : +33 4 88 67 98 23. Email: sandrine.proton@wan-ifra.org.