Media convergence and crossmedia are currently the main keywords used by newspaper publishing companies around the world when it comes to the future of newspaper pub­lishing.  

The digital world is about content, not medium. And it’s about content that is consumed differently to traditional media. While it requires a very different mindset to traditional media production, there are many disciplines a traditional journalist working in print or broadcast can take into the new world. The principal disciplines are about recognising and telling a good story.

Introduction:

The digital world is about content, not medium. And it’s about content that is consumed differently to traditional media. While it requires a very different mindset to traditional media production, there are many disciplines a traditional journalist working in print or broadcast can take into the new world.

The principle disciplines are about recognising and telling a good story. However, to be successful in the digital world, journalists and editors need to be skilled-up to tell stories in a totally new way.

With the association of Al Ittihad Newspaper

• Convergent Newsroom: Multimedia story telling with focus on television/moving image story production for the web  
• Review of best practices in digital editorial workflow with RAPID Browser

One-day free workshop, with the association of Al-Kharafi & Sons and Ifra.

A look on the latest publishing trends and strategies for newspapers, and presentation on eNews by Ifra consultants. A round table discussion with the main newspapers in Kuwait.

For more information and registration please contact: marketing@knowledgeview.co.uk

The ADU is a non-governmental organization established in 1976, currently with 122 members. These are distributors, business publishing media, and corporate communications press companies, representing all 21 Arab countries.

The aim of this conference is to show how media companies in Francophone Africa can develop by taking advantage of the experiences that have been achieved in major French newspapers.

The conference is open only to players in the Maghreb press and particularly to CEOs, Editors, Development managers, Project managers, and Human Resources directors.

Innovations, exchange of experiences and networking at the highest level - between 8 and 11 October you have the opportunity to give new impetus to your business, to profit from the experiences of your international colleagues and learn more about the most important innovations for the newspaper and media industry. IfraExpo Vienna 2007 addresses Publishers, CEOs, Technical Directors and other decision-makers in the newspaper and magazine industries. IfraExpo offers all products, services and suppliers for state-of-the-art media production and management on four days in a compact exhibition. The accompanying events and congresses show examples from real life and offer opportunities to discuss technologies and strategies at the highest level.

The third Newspaper Publishing Conference in the Middle East, held at the The Diplomat Radisson SAS Hotel in Manama, Bahrain, will give an up-to-date overview on business and production topics such as:

> The future of news publishing
> Converged newsrooms
> Semi-commercial printing
> Print quality and standardization
> Business models for publishers

Workshops
20 November 2007:
Workshop 1: Reorganising newsrooms fo rmultimeida products and services