As head of Schibsted, Ryssdal oversees a media company that is known for its digital innovation and has recently become a pioneer on charging for digital content. Russ, the Publisher and CEO of Vorarlberger Medienhaus in Austria, has won numerous awards for innovation and has parlayed the company's central role in community life into numerous lucrative businesses.
The two industry leaders will take part in a Congress session on how the industry responds to rapid and constant change. Other participants in the session include Jeongdo Hong, chief strategy officer of JoongAng Media Network in Korea, Hanzade Dogan Boyner, chairwoman of Dogan Gazetecilik, Turkey's biggest media group, Damian Kudryavtsev the CEO of Kommersant Publishing House in Russia, and Wilfred David Kiboro, group CEO of Nation Media Group in Kenya.
More than 1200 publishers, CEOs, managing directors, chief editors and other senior newspaper executives are expected in Vienna for the Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, the global annual summit meetings of the world's press organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). Full details, including the programme and registration information, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6x223jy.
The Congress and Editors Forum is being held this year in conjunction with IFRA Expo, the largest global trade exhibition for the news publishing and media industry. The Expo will proceed the Congress and Forum, giving newspaper professionals the opportunity to benefit from a mega 'Newspaper Week' event. Full details on all the events can be found at http://www.worldnewspaperweek.org.
Other Congress highlights include:
The events, hosted by the Austrian Newspaper Association (VÖZ), will be accompanied by a rich social programme, tours, meetings with local and international political, business and cultural leaders, and more.
The full Congress programme, speakers information and more can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6x223jy
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
