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 edition will be held in the iberian peninsula :

Lisbon - Madrid - Barcelona

New concepts for print newspapers & Southern European integrated newsrooms

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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.

The programme :

Welcome dinner with the daily I editor or publisher

16h - 18h = Arrival of the participants in Lisbon - Check into the hotel (1 night)

19h30 = Brief introduction to I (Informacion), the latest European daily newspaper launched in 2009. Buffet dinner, open bar... and open discussion with Manuel Queiroz, the new editor & publisher

New approaches to news production

9h30 - 12h00 = I newspaper
We will focus the discussions on the following points:
-    the readership and the audience
-    the very smooth organisation of the newsroom
-    the design and infographics departments
-    the online developments

12h30 - 13h30 = Lunch at Publico hosted by Editors

14h00 - 16h00 = Publico, Portugal. We will be hosted by the editorial staff and Jose-Manuel Fernandes, who was the editor-in-chief in the last 15 years (to be confirmed). Publico is a great example of a quality newspaper in Europe, even if circulation figures are not very high by European standards

18h00 = flight Lisbon- Madrid - Check in to the hotel (2 nights)

21h = Dinner and welcome address by a deputy editor of El Pais

ABC, Publico and El Pais: three opposed models of integration

8h30 - 10h15 = ABC : Visit of the latest integrated newsroom in Europe (since June 2010). We will learn how the newspaper has taken advantage of former integrated newsrooms for developing new concepts (host speakers to be confirmed)

11h00 - 14h15 = El Pais and El Pais digital : Visit of the newspaper and meetings with top executives, including Gumersindo Lafuente, the new head of digital operations. He was the founder of a very successful website in Spain, soitu.es

14h30 - 15h30 = Working lunch with El Pais digital team

16h30 - 18h00 = Publico, Spain : Visit to the newest daily newspaper in Spain. Meetings with top executives, including Ignacio Escoblar, the editor-in-chief, and Nacho Rojo, the online editor (to be confirmed)

21h00 = Dinner with CEOs of top start-ups working with media organisations in Madrid

Latin American update with Cases I Associats

8h00 - 10h30 = high speed train to Barcelona

11h00 - 14h00 = Cases I Associats : Visit to one of the most important consulting groups for newspapers in Europe. Cases I Associates will demonstrate examples of print resilience, based on examples in Spain and in Latin America. Meetings with top executives, including Francisco Amaral, associate director.

14h30 - 16h00 = Working lunch at El Periodico. Discussion with top executives and visit of the newsroom (to be confirmed). In the afternoon, return flights of participants... or a weekend in Barcelona !

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