the 60th World Association of Newspapers Congress community of South Africa

WAN ignores media agenda, ownership

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:29:00 +0200

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.
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Sweden to host 2008 World Newspaper Congress

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:13:00 +0200

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.
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High standards require clear ethics

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:38:00 +0200

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.
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Quality journalism in a free sheet

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:32:00 +0200

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.
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Innovation, embracing change key to surviving digital age

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:22:00 +0200

Innovation 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.
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20 ways to leave an impression

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:47:00 +0200

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?
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Online news readership increases

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:37:00 +0200

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.
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Innovation is the core in Africa

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:38:00 +0200

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.
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Stop whinging about bad press – Guy Berger

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:31:00 +0200

The 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.
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How youth use media

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:10:00 +0200

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. That is one of the key responses from 10 innovative focus groups of young people in 10 countries that is part of a major research project on how young people get their news.
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