[Mahmood Sanglay] The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) held its sixtieth annual congress in Cape Town last week, 3 – 6 June 2007. At the same time the World Editors Forum (WEF) held its fourteenth annual meeting. Over 1600 delegates from 52 countries attended the event in Cape Town. It was spectacular, it was eventful and it was fundamentally flawed.
11 Jun 2007 11:29 The 60th World Newspaper Congress, 14th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo came to an end in Cape Town on last week with an optimistic look toward the future of newspapers. Next year, the 61st World Newspaper Congress, 15th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2008 will be held 1 – 4 June 2008 in the south-western Swedish maritime city of Göteborg.
11 Jun 2007 11:13[Winnie Graham] Editors are facing yet another dilemma as they grapple with a range of issues confronting them in the multimedia debate. Are the old values that applied in news papering an asset – or will they be a burden in the new era? Frits van Exter, former editor in chief of the Netherlands newspaper,
Trouw, posed the question at a final sessions of the World Editors Forum in Cape Town this week when he warned that ethical standards and integrity were once again open to debate.
8 Jun 2007 11:38 The future of the printed mass media will inevitably be about free newspapers. That was one side of a heated debate that raged between two Danish editors and a Dutch one, on the feasibility of producing quality journalism in a free sheet, at the 60th World Newspaper Congress and 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town this week.
8 Jun 2007 11:32Innovation and embracing change were two keys to survival in the digital age, newspaper editors from the around the world were told this week. Gathering on the last day of the 60th World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town, 1600 editors, managers and publishers from more than 100 countries pondered successful strategies for coping in the era of multimedia, digitisation and convergence.
8 Jun 2007 11:22
[Louise Marsland] Newspaper newsrooms are being expanded globally, journalists retrained in multi-media functionality and consumers engaged with like never before. Journalism has become a conversation with your readers and communities. This may have been the World Association of Newspapers congress in Cape Town this week, but is there really any difference between the different media categories with digital innovation?
7 Jun 2007 10:47[Louise Marsland] The use of online as a medium to source news and information is increasing in the developed nations, according to a readership survey commissioned by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). This special survey on key newspaper readership issues and trends was conducted by Harris Interactive in conjunction with Innovation International Media Consulting Group for the Innovations in Newspapers 2007 report for WAN.
7 Jun 2007 10:37 
[Trevor Ncube] African editors and publishers need swift and smart thinking in order to withstand persecution in countries with prickly presidents and parliaments. When state adverts dry up, usually on order from on-high, new business models have to be invented on-the-fly.
6 Jun 2007 17:38The time has come for African journalists to stop whinging about the bad press their countries receive in the West and to start doing the job themselves. This is the message from Professor Guy Berger, head of the department of journalism at Rhodes University, who told the World Editors Forum in Cape Town this week that the time for moaning and mourning was time over. It was time to become “mesmerising” about Africa.
6 Jun 2007 17:31Research released this week during a seminar on the eve of the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, shows that young people perceive traditional media as more accurate, trustworthy and reliable than new media, but many get most of their news and information from another source entirely – family and friends.
6 Jun 2007 17:10How do you transform a solid newspaper business into a media company producing many millions of US dollars in earnings? You “try everything”, says Luis Fernando Santos, president of Casa Editorial El Tiempo in Columbia. Speaking at the 60th World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town this week, Santos gave media executives from around the world tips on how to boost profits in a world where print bosses find themselves in a mature industry.
6 Jun 2007 16:53[Louise Marsland] One a former deputy president and the other, the current deputy president of South Africa, squared off with editors over lunch yesterday, Tuesday, 5 June 2007, at the World Association of Newspaper congress and World Editors Forum second day. Part history lesson and part campaign speeches, both Jacob Zuma and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka put Africa on the newspaper editors' agenda.
6 Jun 2007 11:42 Five new strategy reports on some of the most important recent developments in the newspaper industry globally – increasing digital revenue development, advertising best practices, innovative management systems, newspaper company reorganisation and the power of local focus – have just been published by the World Association of Newspapers. The reports were released yesterday, Tuesday, 5 June 2007, at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Cape Town, South Africa.
5 Jun 2007 18:20The World Association of Newspapers has called on democratic governments to take specific measures to protect freedom of the press in the face of widespread tightening of anti-terrorism measures. WAN also issued several resolutions specifically highlighting abuse of media freedoms in various countries, one of them being Zimbabwe.
5 Jun 2007 16:01
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Malawi
Mozambique
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South Africa
Zimbabwe
Cote D'Ivoire
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Kenya
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