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WEF designed Study Tours to promote the culture of innovation in newsrooms. Each Study Tour gathers a small group of editors-in-chief to visit a selected country where innovation is the strongest in a particular domain. The Study Tours are designed so that editors can immediately apply their learnings upon returning to their newsroom. Our next editions will be held in Spain (Tuesday 5 April - Friday 8 April 2011). Lisbon - Madrid - BarcelonaNew concepts for print newspapers and latest integrated newsrooms (Tuesday 5 April - Friday 8 April 2011) Apart "I" in the UK, the two latest print newspapers in Europe were launched in Portugal (I for Informacion) and in Spain (Publico). Today they are quite successful in a very difficult environment. The most intriguing point is that the two newspapers have focused their efforts on print, rather than on their websites. We will discover the formula for such success stories. But it's impossible to go to Portugal and Spain without visiting strong quality news organisations. For instance, we will be hosted by El Pais, the first paid-for daily in the country and ABC, with its totally new integrated newsroom (since June 2010). We will finish the study tour in Barcelona where Cases I Associats is based for a thorough workshop on print resilience: a sort of synthesis of our study tour with more international examples of newsroom restructuring. (All visits must be confirmed.) First Day - Tuesday 5 April Welcome dinner with I editor or publisher Second Day - Wednesday 6 April New approaches to news production9h30 - 12h00 = I newspaper Third Day - Thursday 7 April ABC, Publico and El Pais: three opposed models of integration Fourth day - Friday 8 April Latin American update with Cases I Associats Who should attend: Price includes transfers within Portugal and Spain (flight + train), hotel accommodation and all meals. Flights between your country and Lisbon & Barcelona are not included.
Contact Previous WEF Study Tours WEF Study Tour inNew York & Chicago, USA Start-ups for news and new storytelling methods: getting ideas and making partnerships In New York and Chicago, the study tour is focused on innovation and how American newspapers - which have faced serious financial challenges since 2008 - are finding solutions to keep readers on new platforms and take advantage of the latest social networks. As technology is involved in this process, news providers have to partner with the most innovative and visionnary start-ups : both from a business point of view, and in terms of new ways to tell stories and satisfy readers who want always more. Study tour participants will have the chance to directly discuss with start-up managers... and potentially partner with them in the near future. WEF Study Tour in Prague, Czech Republic "150 hyperlocal weeklies, 900 websites... and 90
newscafes: how Nase Adresa plans to become the most important
hyperlocal news project worldwide" PPF Media's hyperlocal project, launched in the spring of 2009, has been hailed from the beginning as one of the industry's most innovative initiatives in years (see below a selection of articles). It primarily consists of print weekly Nase Adresa (translation: our address), an innovation in itself as within the next two years, it will be published in 150 different hyperlocal news editions, in a country - Czech Republic - of little more than 10 million people. Along with Internet portals, they will be produced in 90 "newscafés" by local staff and external contributors (user generated content). They are under the supervision of the Futuroom, the Prague-based central newsroom, which is also a media laboratory for multimedia journalistic projects and new revenue streams. This session presented the evolution of the project already portrayed in our september Study Tours (see below). It was of course totally comprehensible by itself. Articles written on the Nase Adresa project: WEF Study Tour in Prague, Czech Republic 29-30 SEPTEMBER 2009 "Hyperlocal news and the Nase Adresa business model: a new frontier for the newspaper industry" The weekly's local reporting teams are based in newscafés, which constitute the second major innovative dimension of the project. This combination of newsrooms and Internet bistros is designed to facilitate contacts with readers and potential sources. The local teams are strongly supported by a state-of-the-art designed central newsroom, the Futuroom. The orchestration of both groups is critical in terms of access to the best experts and equipments for multimedia production, and for the enrichment of the 'hyperlocally' angled articles with elements of national and international news. The third major innovation, the Futuroom is also an experimental field for innovative news production combining text, pictures, film, sound and interactive graphic designs, or for investigative journalism. It is also a conference center on newspaper-related issues - including the convergence of print and online operations, adopted by Nase Adresa from the start. Editors and media executives are offered expertise provided by PPF Media and its partners Google, WEF and Atex.
UK Nationals and Regionals Study Tour (click here)
26-30 April 2009 Integrated
newsrooms have taken the UK newspaper market, one of the world's most
dynamic, by storm. National quality papers have led the charge with the
regional press right on their heels, experimenting with multimedia
journalism and transforming the newsroom culture to fit the digital
age. In combination with these transformations, UK newspapers have
conserved resources and minimized expenditure, continuing to provide
their readers with top-quality journalism in spite of the global
financial crisis. Southeastern US Study Tour in Atlanta and Miami (click here)
17-21 November 2008 LOCAL MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM: HOW US NEWSPAPERS ENGAGE COMMUNITIES
Exclusive visits to CNN, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Poynter Institute With national and international information constantly accessible on multiple platforms by readers, US newspapers are refocusing their newsgathering efforts to their immediate surroundings, digging deep into the everyday lives of their local communities. This movement has been enormously facilitated by digital media technologies. American newspapers have adopted these technologies, reorganized their newsrooms and retrained their journalists to create innovative and targeted content for readers who are increasingly news hungry, yet have increasingly less time. During the WEF "How US Newspapers Engage Communities" study tour, you will learn first-hand the steps that US papers are taking to convert their newsrooms into fully-digital, hyper-local publications, steps that are rejuvenating these papers' role as public service watchdogs for their communites.
US STUDY TOUR in New York and Washington DC (click here) Over the past century, American newspapers and news agencies have played an enormous role in transforming journalism around the globe. Today, it is those same organizations that are being transformed. American news establishments have embraced the country's entrepreneurial spirit, experimenting with all things digital in order to increase efficiency in their newsrooms and produce better journalism for their readers. WEF Young Reader study tour in Paris and London (click here) This activity has the support of Norske Skog, the Norway-based global newsprint producer, through its partnership with Young Readership Development projects of the World Association of Newspapers.
WEF Study Tour in Finland (click here) Latest innovations in mobile and digital journalism
WEF Study Tour in Spain (click here)
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