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Daily News Summaries of presentations and other news from the 53rd World Newspaper Congress, 7th World Editors Forum and Info Expo 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 11-14 June 2000 For more information -- including copies of the presentations and WAN's soon-to-be-published Congress and Forum reports, contact WAN, 25 rue d'Astorg, 75008 Paris France, Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00, Fax +33 1 47 42 49 48. E-mail: contact_us@wan.asso.fr
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release posted 14/06/2000 Roger Parkinson Elected President of World Association of Newspapers English Spanish French German WAN Condemns Colombian Violence English Spanish Resolution Protests Crackdown in Serbia English WAN Asks Chilean President To Help Press Freedom English
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posted 14/06/2000 The Three "R" - Respect, Readers, Revenue Steve Harris, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Age, Melbourne, Australia In one of the most competitive newspaper market in Australia (four daily metropolitan newspapers), The Age isn't the largest circulation newspaper. And it was foundering three years ago, when a new management team with a new strategy was introduced. Today, despite this aggressive competition, it has its highest advertising market share since 1995, new revenue streams and even higher The new management team focused on the fundamentals of "respect, readers and revenues", and imposed a sense of urgency, an examination and reduction of costs, new printing capacity and a long-term strategy. Priority number one was the grow content and quality in many areas -- introducing national, regional and on-line editions and new sections, magazines and books; sponsoring community events; mergin, and Mr Harris described the specifics of how this was done. Print or Screen: It’s Content That Counts Robert Phillis, Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group With all the talk about changing technologies, it is also important to know what not to change, said Mr Phillis. "This is where content and the concept of the trusted media brand are so important in developing strategies for the future," he says. "A trusted media brand can be a signpost to quality and reliability in a world of apparently unlimited choice." Mr Phillis contends that newspapers don’t have to "reinvent" themselves. "I think more than anything else, we have to reassess our core strengths and beliefs and use them to maximum effect in all of the new markets which are now opening up." Mr Phillis outlined some of the ways his Group is exploiting the opportunities presented by new media, and commented on some of the econonomic, cultural and organisational challenges which newspaper companies must face. New Enemies for Press Freedom in the Americas Tony Pederson, President, Inter American Press Association The age of dictatorships and military governments is gone, and there has been a dramatic increase in freedom of the press in the Americas. Yet serious problems remain. "There are several key countries where I fear even the most basic freedom to think and write fact and opinion is endagered,’ said Mr Pederson. "Let me begin with the most serious of issues. It’s murder. And it’s rampant in several Latin American countries, and in particular it is being used to silence free and independent journalism. In the last decade alone, there have been more than 200 journalists murdered in the Americas. The worst offenders are Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico." The IAPA has created an Impunity Project to document every case and select some for extensive examination "It is called impunity because, in the vast majority of these case, those responsible are not brought to justice," said Mr Pederson. He described what the IAPA and other organisations are doing to change that. The Next Media Revolution: Wireless and Broadband Fredrik Gren, Senior Engagement Manager, and Luis Ubiñas, Principal, McKinsey & Co. In the near future, how will newspapers respond when millions of people have fast and easy access to the internet, anytime and anywhere, through wireless internet connections on mobile phones and super-fast broadband connections to the home? "The wireless and broadband shocks that we'll see in the next three to five years will force you -- as leaders of the newspaper industry -- to rethink how and with whom you deliver what customers want," said Mr Ubiñas. "These shocks -- while threatening -- will be manageable, provided you act now. In fact, we believe the next five years will effectively reset the clock for newspapers on the Net, giving you another chance to build winning online businesses." Mr Ubiñas said the key to success for newspapers in this world "will be to leverage your unique content, packaging skills, customer relationships, and marketing muscle to seal attractive deals with the likely winners in wireless communications and broadband services."
The Knowledge Newsroom Gabriella Franzini, Director, Eidos Media, Italy Managing knowledge in any organisation is a primary opportunity for achieving competitive advantages in marketplaces where the rate of innovation is very rapid. The newsroom, says Ms. Franzini, could be described as the highest expression of knowledge creation, directly linked to a business result: the publication. Yet newsrooms are still far from applying knowledge management practices to their daily work. Ms. Franzini described the importance of knowledge management for any organisation, its impact in the newsroom environment, the personal and organisational benefits that knowledge management can bring to a publishing company, and the role of information technology in knowledge management. In the Year 2020 Neal Pattison, Assistant Managing Editor, Design, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, US The American Press Institute asked 25 designers to imagine the future and create pages — ink on paper pages — for the year 2020. But if such a project sounds like nothing more than a design exercise, think again. "If designers in the news business have any chip on their shoulders, it is their desire to be though of as thinkers and editors, not simply as decorators who dress pages up and make them look nice," said Mr Pattison. When you look at Design 2020, this is what you find: smaller newspapers, not just in web width but in the number of pages; front page advertising; free newspapers; newspapers delivered at any time of the day; news as briefs and indexes; and magazine-type publications that emphasize explanatory and analytical journalism. "One of the clear messages from this gathering is that there will be an even greater need in the future for editing and presentation skills," said Mr Pattison. Ready to Wear Computers? John Pavlik, Executive Director of the Center for New Media, Columbia University, USA In the future, journalists are likely to be wearing their computers when they go to work, much like they carry notebooks today, says Dr. Pavlik. In a presentation entitled, "A Day in the Life of a Third Millennium Journalist," Dr Pavlik described how journalists of the future will do the work of gathering news, producing and reporting a story. For example, next generation journalists will rely increasingly on wearable computer devices, says Dr. Pavlik. Users will enter data either by voice recognition or a hand-held keyboard. He described a project known as the Mobile Journalis's Workstation, which is a wearable computer and communications system "that puts the full functionality of a central newsroom into the hands of a field reporter and the immersive storytelling capability of virtual reality into journalism and mass communications." |
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