| The Forum Schedule |
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Sunday 30 May
Monday 31 May
All Congress sessions take place at the Lüfti Kirdar Convention & Exhibition Centre
| 10h00-12h00 | Opening Ceremony
Musical interludes from ’Fire of Anatolia, the Sultans of the Dance’
Welcome addresses by:
 Aydin Dogan, President, Turkish Newspaper Publishers Association.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.
Seok Hyun Hong, President, WAN.
Presentation of the 2004 WAN Golden Pen of Freedom by Gloria Anderson, President, World Editors Forum, to Ruslan Sharipov, journalist, Uzbekistan.
Special guest speaker: Yashar Kemal, novelist, Turkey | | | WEF meets the Turkish Prime Minister (advance registration only: bpecquerie@wan.asso.fr) | | 12h00 |  Opening of Info Services Expo 2004. Sponsored by Reuters. | | 12h45 | lunch | | 14h00 | An introduction to Turkey, by Talat Halman, author. | | 14h15 | World Trends in the Newspaper Industry: An Update. Timothy Balding, Director General, WAN.
(Joint session with Congres). | | 14h45 | Keynote Speakers. Do newspapers need to reinvent journalism?
Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, El País & PRISA Group, Spain.
Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Multimedia, Nokia Corporation, Finland.
Dean Wright, Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President, MSNBC.com, USA.
First Session. Press credibility in the digital age:new attacks, new answers.
The list of challengers to print newspapers is growing: cable TV, online services, mobile phones, free newspapers... and even “bloggers” on the internet. And to make matters worse, the credibility of the press is now lower than that of television in some countries. TV more serious than print? Editors must think about this unsettling paradox. In this age of digital information, are there new rules or new guidelines to establish?
Debate between the keynote speakers, top editors and media CEOs.
Yeon-Ho Oh, Founder and CEO, OhmyNews, Republic of Korea.
Andrew Nachison and Dale Peskin, Co-Directors, The Media Center of American Press Institute, USA.
Gabriella Stern, Senior Editor, Dow Jones Newswires in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, USA (chairwoman). | | 16h45 | 2004 Global Report on Innovations in Newspapers, by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group. Presentations will include insights into the sudden transformation of broadsheets into tabloids all over the world; a look at the new free dailies published by paid newspapers; an examination of the lessons to be learned by recent newsroom management changes; a review of the new front pages newspapers are adopting to seduce readers; and much more!
Presented by Juan Senor (London), Claude Erbsen (New York) and Juan Antonio Giner (Norfolk), consultants of the Innovation International Media Consulting Group.
(Joint session with Congress) | | 20h00 | Street party in old Istanbul (Kumkapi district) with local cuisine and entertainment. Sponsored by Anadolu Efes Beverage Group. |
Tuesday 1 June
| 07h45-08h45 | Editors Breakfast
WEF meets 15 Turkish editors and columnists
(advance registration only: bpecquerie@wan.asso.fr) | | 09h00-12h15 | Second Session. Tabloid boom: no limits? Hardly a week goes by without the announcement that a major daily broadsheet has changed to tabloid. Some predict that all newspapers will be tabloids by 2010! What are the reasons behind this major shift?
Can broadsheets hold out against the current trend?
Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief. The Independent, United Kingdom.
George Brock, Managing Editor, The Times, United Kingdom.
Grzegorz Jankowski, Editor-in-Chief, Fakt, Poland.
Niels Lunde, Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende, Denmark (with Ole Kahrs, Director Communications and Content, Bearing Point Nordic, Norway).
Raymundo Riva-Palacio, Editor for external affairs, El Universal, Mexico.
Harald Stanghelle, Political Editor, Aftenposten, Norway (chairman). | | | Lunch | | 14h00-17h00 | Third Session. The Front Page Revolution. You have two seconds to seduce your readership...This, every day, is the challenge of the front page editor.The exercise is incredibly difficult. More colour, more photos, more points of entry, more headlines...the choice is large. But some newspapers have found successful strategies and they are ready to share them with the WEF.
Roger Black, Designer & Chairman, Danilo Black, USA.
David Wadmore, Associated Head of Design, The Times, United Kingdom.
Sylvain Cypel, Editor, Le Monde, France.
Marta Botero de Leyva, Partner Director, INNOVATION (and former editor of EL MUNDO, Colombia).
Ertugrul Özkok, Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet, Turkey (chairman).
Evening free. |
Wednesday 2 June
| 09h00-12h15 | Fourth Session. Photojournalism and new visual strategies.
(in association with the World Press Photo Foundation).
The future of photojournalism is a major issue for print newspapers... but who cares? And who is inventing new paths for photojournalism in the storytelling process and in feature writing? Newspapers have not yet found the balance between traditional use and new visual awareness of the readership.
Brian Storm, Vice President of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services, Corbis, USA.
Jean-François Le Mounier, Head of Photo Department, Agence France Presse, France.
Per Folkver, Picture Editor,Politiken, Denmark.
Stanley Greene, Photoreporter, VU Agency, France and USA.
Fred Ritchin, Professor, New York University, Director of PixelPress and former Picture Editor of the New York Times Magazine, USA.
Michiel Munneke, Managing Director, World Press Photo Foundation, The Netherlands (chairman). | | 12h15-13h00 | WEF Annual General Meeting (open). | | | Lunch | | 14h30-16h30 | Fifth Session. Arab media: an emerging power.
From CNN leadership in 1991 to Al-Jazeera (and Al- Arabiya) power in 2003... Arab television played a major role during the war in Iraq and its aftermath. But what about Arab newspapers? Do they have a major influence on public opinion?
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Islamology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Salah Negm, Editor-in-Chief, Al-Arabiya, Dubai.
Maher Abdallah, Head of International Affairs, Al-Jazeera, Qatar.
Ian Ritchie, Vice President-Global Business, Managing Director-AP International, Associated Press, USA (former CEO of Middle East Broadcasting).
Hazem Saghieh, Editor, Al-Hayat, London.
Gebran Tueni, Publisher and Chairman of the Board, An Nahar, Lebanon.
Abdülhamit Bilici, Chief International News Editor, Zaman, Turkey (chairman).
| | Evening | Gala dinner and entertainment on Sultanahmet Square (a unique Roman location between the Blue Mosque and Saint Sophia). Sponsored by the Union of Chambers of Commerce and Commodity Exchanges, Turkey (TOBB).
All times are provisional and subject to change.
World Press Photo, the leading international press photography contest, will again mount an exhibition at the WAN Congress and WEF Conference. |
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