World Press Trends, the primary and most authoritative source of data on the newspaper industry worldwide, covers all 233 countries and territories where newspapers are published. Asian newspapers have found themselves at the top of the growth table in recent years, and the continent is home to many of the world’s largest newspapers.

World Press Trends will be the subject of a major presentation at Publish Asia, which takes the theme, "Rethink, Rebuild and Reach Out!" The event includes three concurrent conferences (CEO Conference, Newsroom Summit and Printing Summit), four learning workshops and an exhibition of the latest products and services from suppliers to the industry. An early bird registration discount is available until 2 July.

Full details of Publish Asia can be found at www.publishasia.com.

More on World Press Trends can be found here.

Speakers at Publish Asia 2010 include:

  Maani Safa, Head of Mobile at The Telegraph in the United Kingdom.

  Roman Gallo, Director for Media Strategies at PPF Media in the Czech Republic.

  Shaun Morgan, Business Development Manager at Fairfax Media in Australia.

  Theo Blanco, Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Upsala Nya Tidning in Sweden.

  Azrul Ananda, Chief Operating Officer, Jawa Pos, Indonesia.

  Geoff Tan, Senior Vice President, Head of Strategic Marketing and Customer Service for Singapore Press Holdings.

  Pichai Chuensuksawadi, Editor in Chief, The Bangkok Post, Thailand.

  Kasturi Balaji, Managing Director of Kasturi and Sons, Publisher of The Hindu newspaper in India.

  Emmanuel Sauquet, Asia Pacific Director of Partnerships for Google.

  Sanat Hazra, Technical Director of Times of India.

  And many others.

Publish Asia also offers four, one-day learning workshops on iPad for newspapers, cross media advertising, implementing the newsroom 3.0, and cost control in production. Full details at www.publishasia.com.

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.