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 Czech Republic (Wednesday 3 November - Friday 5 November 2010) and United States (Monday 29 November - Friday 3 December 2010).

Study tour participants will have the chance to directly discuss with start-up managers... and potentially partner with them in the near future.

Introductory Working Dinner

16h - 18h = Arrival of participants in New York - check into hotel (2 nights)

19h00 - 22h00 = working dinner with John Landmann, deputy managing editor, The New York Times, and Gloria Brown Anderson, vice president, International and Editorial Development, The New York Times Syndicate (to be confirmed)
Strategic presentations and first brain-storming about journalism, technology and partnerships.

How big media groups partner with start-ups

09h00-11h30 = Google News, Google Maps... and other tools
During our visit, we will learn how Google is working with traditional publishers, and how your newsroom can maximize its exposure through Google tools. Some of the topics covered will include:
- best practices for making content (including subscription content)
- new formats for presenting articles, such as Fast Flip and Living Stories
- ways to tap into citizen-captured news video through YouTube Direct
- methods for using Google Maps to improve storytelling.

Speakers: Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager at Google and Steve Grove, Head of News at YouTube (to be confirmed)

Tour of the Google facilities.

12h30 - 13h30 = working lunch with Jim Roberts, editor of digital news, New York Times and also a "System Editor", a new position in the newspaper about the use of databases for quality journalism (to be confirmed).

14h00-16h00 = visit of The New York Times
We will visit the Times' brand new Times Square building, tour its spacious newsroom and discover its latest innovative projects.
Special session with Michael Zimbalist, VP, Research & Development Operations: What will the news look like in 2020 for newsrooms and their readers? (to be confirmed).

16h30-18h00 = visit of AOL, Patch and Seed services
Patch:
Patch is a hyperlocal news platform that operates local news sites for 41 small towns and communities in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts & Connecticut.
Seed:
Seed is AOL's open content submission platform where professional writers, photographers and others can submit their content for publication on AOL's platforms.

20h00 = working dinner with Jeff Mignon and Nancy Wang, 5W Mignon Media:. 5W is working with papers on both sides of the Atlantic, helping them adapt to local media transformations. Jeff and Nancy will give you an idea of how to improve your paper's digital offerings.

The tour of the latest New York start-ups

8h30 - 11h30 = visit some of the most relevant start-ups for news production
Twitter:
Twitter does not need an introduction. In a few years, it has become a tool used by journalists for covering live events communicating with their 'followers.' We will ask Twitter managers how they foresee 21st century journalism with immediate blogging tools.
Foursquare:
Foursquare is the leading location aware mobile social networking site. It has struck deals with several major publications.
Flowing Media:
Flowing Media is a data visualization company that creates interactive graphics to engage a mass audience and provides real-time displays of social media streams.

12h00-13h30 = lunch with Jeff Jarvis, director of the Interactive Journalism Program at the City University of New York (CUNY). Jeff is one of America's premier media strategists, working with news organizations around the world. He has helped build CUNY's Interactive Journalism Program and developed the "New Business Models for News" project. You can find his blog at www.buzzmachine.com

13h30 - 15h30 = Multimedia storytelling session at CUNY. Presentations of:
MediaStorm:
MediaStorm's online publication is focused on multimedia storytelling. Learn what skills and people are required to take multimedia journalism to the next level.
Magnum in Motion:
Founded in 2004, Magnum In Motion is the multimedia digital studio of Magnum Photos. In Motion assembles visual narratives for online and offline platforms.
Mochila:
Online marketplace for syndicated content from hundreds of the world's newspapers and news organisations.

17h00-19h30 = flight to Chicago. Check into hotel (2 nights)

Dinner at the hotel with Martha Stone, Director of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project (SFN) within WAN-IFRA.

The tour of the latest Chicago start-ups

9h00 - 12h00 = Chicago Tribune : newsroom organisation, latest partnerships & latest developments in hyperlocal news
Meetings with Gerould Kern, editor-in-chief, Bill Adee, director of digital, Brad Moore, vice president, Targeted Media, Tribune Media Group (to be confirmed)
Visit of the Chicago Tribune newsroom. Discussion about Triblocal.com & RedEye.

12h30 - 13h30 = lunch with Robb Montgomery, multimedia journalist and consultant

14h00 - 18h30 = visit some of the most relevant start-ups for news production
Everyblock:
EveryBlock filters an assortment of hyperlocal news by location so people can keep track of what's happening on their block, neighborhood and all over their city.
Meeting with Adrian Holovaty, pioneer of "journalism via computer programming".
ChicagoNow
ChicagoNow is a hyperlocal blogs network that offers readers 350 blogs written by community journalists based in Chicago, with each covering niche topics from across the city. The bloggers are paid $5 for every 1000 local page views.
Chicago News Cooperative
The Chicago News Cooperative - a non-profit news project - was launched by James O'Shea, former editor of the Los Angeles Times. The site produces public-interest journalism and partners with the New York Times as well as a local public TV station.
Legacy.com
Founded in 1998, Legacy.com is an online media company that collaborates with around 900 newspapers in North America, Europe and Australia to provide ways for readers to express condolences and share remembrances of loved ones.

20h00 = dinner with Mike Smith, Director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. He will introduce the next day's visits and his vision of 'journalism of the future.'

Visit the laboratories of the 21st century journalism

9h - 12h00 = The Readership Institute and journalism laboratories.
Morning hosted by Mike Smith, Director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. He will talk about the Center's ongoing research and how should editors be thinking about audiences. Update on entrepreneurial journalism in the Chicago area.

12h30 - 14h00 = working lunch with Professor Rich Gordon, Northwestern associate director of digital media at the journalism school.

14h00 - 15h30 = Study tour wrap-up discussion with young journalists and developers about future of journalism projects.

Transportation to the airport... or a weekend in Chicago.

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Who should attend:
Editors-in-chief & group editors, senior news executives and top managers who believe that partnerships with innovative start-ups can help the newspaper business.

Working language:
The presentations will be held in English

What does it cost?
WAN-IFRA members         EUR 5,600 (Early bird EUR 4,800)
Non-members                 EUR 6,800 (Early bird EUR 5,900)

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Contact
Bertrand Pecquerie
World Editors Forum Study Tours Manager
Phone: +33 1 47 42 85 04 (or 85 00)
Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48
bertrand.pecquerie@wan-ifra.org
http://www.wan-press.org/wef/studytours.php