Sport on WAN-IFRA Congress program

Panellists

• Gianni Valenti, deputy director of Italy's largest daily (with more than 3.5 million readers), the sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport;
  
• George Brock, professor and head of journalism at City University, London and former international editor of The Times of London;
  
• Santi Nolla, president of IASN and editor of the century-old Spanish sports daily El Mundo Deportivo;
  
• Antoine Vernholes, international director of L'Equipe, the French sports newspaper;
  
• Eduardo Tironi, multimedia editor of the Brazilian sports media group Lance!

With 2010 filled with major sports events, including the football World Cup and the Winter Olympics, participants at the congress and forum, to be held from 1-3 December in Hyderabad, India, will have several opportunities to learn how sports coverage is evolving in the digital age.

Media restrictions panel

Another sports-related event, organised with the News Media Coalition, will illustrate the major restrictions to media coverage of sports events and how to fight them. Discussions will provide a unique insight into the editorial, press freedom and business challenges of sports news, prior to the master class that the IASN will organise to help journalists deal with sports rights and accreditation issues, in January 2010.

Among the panellists in this session: Xavier Spender, deputy director of L'Equipe and CEO of L'Equipe 24/24, which manages new media for L'Equipe TV, lequipe.fr and the group's digital radio station; Andrew Moger, executive director of the News Media Coalition; and Valtteri Niiranen, executive director of the European Newspapers' Publishers Association (ENPA).

Full details of the congress, forum and expo are on www.wanindia2009.com.