Join study tour to news organisations
The tour will go to Washington, DC and New York to visit The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Associated Press, FourSquare, Press+, NBC and MSNBC, AARP and the Newseum. Participants also will have lunch with John Paton, CEO of the Journal Register Company, to learn about his company's significant turnaround.
"The US has been a proving ground for innovative products and new approaches for generating revenue," said Dietmar Schantin, executive director of Newsplex, the multimedia training centre of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). "We will be looking at media companies that have implemented their editorial operations in new and very interesting ways. There is a lot to learn from them."
To register, go to www.wan-ifra.org/mmnewsrooms-studytour.
Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Executive Director of Communications and Public
Affairs, WAN-IFRA, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1
47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail:
larry.kilman@wan-ifra.org.
Source: WAN-IFRA
WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18 000 publications, 15 000 online sites and over 3000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.
Go to: http://www.wan-ifra.org