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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

 

9.30 - 17.00 Media Development, Press Freedom and Young Readers Round Tables 

 

17.30 - 18.30 Editors’ cocktail hour
Editors are invited to a warm-up networking session over a glass of Austrian wine.

 

19.30 - 22.00 Welcome reception in the Vienna Town Hall at the invitation of the Mayor of Vienna, Michael Häupl

The gothic-style town hall, built between 1872 and 1883, is a symbol of beautiful Vienna. Located in the city centre, the Rathaus serves as the seat of both the mayor and city council. The welcome reception provides a unique opportunity to visit this magnificent structure.

Dress code: business attire

 

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Thursday, 13 October 2011

 

8.45 – 10.00 Breakfast with Austrian Editors
Attendance limited to pre-registered participants

 

10.00 - 12.00 Opening Ceremony

Welcome addresses

• Dr. Hans Gasser, VÖZ President – Austrian Newspaper Association
• Jacob Mathew, WAN-IFRA President, India
• Mag. Barbara Prammer, President of the National Council of the Republic of Austria
  
  
  

Presentation of the 2011 Golden Pen of Press Freedom

Erik Bjerager, President, World Editors Forum, Denmark

The Golden Pen of Press Freedom goes to Dawit Isaak, Swedish-Eritrean playwright, journalist and writer, who has been held in Eritrean prison since 2001 without trial for the simple act of carrying out his duties as a journalist.

 

Opening Concert with Opus & Christian Kolonovits

The opening ceremony will feature a world class fusion of classical music, Viennese waltzes and pop, with Christian Kolonovits, a world-leading arranger, composer and music producer who has worked with the Vienna Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony and many others, and Opus, the pop-rock group from Graz, Austria, which had an international hit with “Live is Life.”

Moderated by:
Arabella Kiesbauer, TV presenter, writer and actress, Austria

 

12.00 - 14.00 Opening of Info Services Expo

Cutting edge products, services and technologies from the leading suppliers to the newspaper industry.

Supplier companies already confirmed include:
AFP • Bloomberg • ClipSource • Deutsche Post • Goss International • NewspaperDirect • The New York Times Syndicate • Planeta Marketing Institucional • Red Web (Mittelrhein-Verlag) • Tribune Media Services • UAPP • Universal Uclick • VG News Portal • VÖZ • Zeitung in der Schule

 

12.15 - 14.00 Lunch

 

14.00 - 14.45

World Press Trends 2011

The annual World Press Trends update is the most authoritative source of data on the newspaper industry worldwide and one of the main highlights of the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum. This year based on a brand new concept, the report contains essential data on newspaper circulation, advertising revenues, digital audiences and much more.
Christoph Riess, Chief Executive Officer, WAN-IFRA, France, Germany

 

15.00 – 16.00 Session 1

After WikiLeaks: The next step for newspapers

WikiLeaks holds a nebulous position as the source that is not a source, building a buffer between the leaker of information and the news outlet that wants to publish it, and has thus prompted changes in the journalist-source relationship. Newspapers have to think about how to deal with such organisations and how to establish whether they have their own agendas. Should news publications develop their own digital leaking systems?

• Charlie Beckett, Director of POLIS, London School of Economics, UK
• Daniel Domscheit-Berg, founder of OpenLeaks, Germany
• Tom Kent, Standards Editor and Deputy Managing Editor, Associated Press, USA 
• Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Editor-in-chief, Der Spiegel, Germany
• N Ram, Editor-in-chief, The Hindu, India

 

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break

16.30 – 18.00 Session 2

How to build a community around your publication

From Twitter and Facebook, to crowdsourcing and gathering readers’ photos, to community events: newspapers now have abundant ways to interact with their readers online as well as face-to-face. How can editors best create communities around their publications, and how can they benefit most effectively from what these communities have to offer?

• Jim Brady, Head of Project Thunderdome, Journal Register Company, USA
• Matthew Eltringham, Editor of the BBC College of Journalism website, UK
• Mark Johnson, Community Editor, Economist, UK
• Anette Novak, Editor-in-Chief of Norran, Sweden
• Chris Roper, Head of Online, Mail & Guardian, South Africa

 

18.30 Bus transfer

19.30 - 22.00 Local evening and dinner

Heuriger is the name given to eastern-Austrian wine taverns where local winegrowers present their wares. Heuriger means “this year’s wine”, and the taverns offer a way for winemakers to offer tastings of their wine, along with good meals and traditional Viennese Schrammel music played on the accordion and violin. A well-known area for these Heurigen restaurants has been reserved exclusively for the Congress and Editors Forum.

Dress code: smart casual

 

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Friday, 14 October 2011

08.30 - 09.15

Conversation with Philipp Schindler, President, Northern and Central Europe, Google, UK

The word “Google” conjures up many images and perceptions in our minds today. The Congress and World Editors Forum will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss them with the man leading Google’s operations in northern and central Europe. Philipp Schindler will provide insight into one of the key players in the digital business and respond to questions during this early morning session. If you think Google is important in your newspaper life, be there!

Joint session with World Newspaper Congress

9.15 – 10.30 Session 3

What content should print newspapers focus on in order to survive and thrive?

As the printed product encounters more and more pressure from different platforms, how can we make sure that it not only survives, but flourishes? This session will consider what sort of content should be the focus, and whether a shift to concentrating on opinion and analysis is the key.

• Luca de Biase, Editor-in-Chief, Nòva24 from Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy 
• Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Editor-in-Chief, Der Standard, Austria
• Han Fook Kwang, Editor, The Straits Times, Singapore
• John Lloyd, Director of Journalism, Reuters Institute, U

 

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.30 Session 4

Innovation in print

Print is still where newspapers make most of our money, despite an increasing focus on digital. This session showcases initiatives that have helped to maintain and increase readership in challenging times.

• Azrul Ananda, President Director, Jawa Pos, Indonesia
• George Brock, Professor and Head of Journalism, City University, London, UK
• Thomas Götz, Deputy Editor, Kleine Zeitung, Austria
• Shyam Parekh, Editor, DNA Ahmedabad, India
• Eric Newton, Senior Adviser to the President, Knight Foundation, USA

 

12.45 – 13.45 Data journalism lunch 

As data journalism becomes even more important to newsrooms, this informal lunchtime discussion will provide editors with some insights and tips from reporters who make the most of the new tools, techniques and information.

• James Ball, The Guardian, UK
• Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Datajournalist, France

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Session 5:

Integration: the latest experiments in a multi-platform age

Different degrees of integration exist in newsrooms around the world, and here session panelists will debate the advantages of full newsroom integration, versus keeping platforms separate. The session will examine whether print-digital convergence is substantially more complicated now that multiple digital platforms exist – does this mean that those newsrooms that have already integrated must now go a step further?

• Olalla Cernuda, Head of Online, ABC, Spain
• Christian Ortner, Editor-in-Chief, Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Austria
• Roberto Pombo, Editor-in-Chief, EL TIEMPO, Colombia
• Paula Salovaara, Managing Editor, Helsingin Sanomat, Finland

 

15.15 – 16.30 Session 6

The steps towards a successful tablet application

Tablet devices have been hailed as a potential saviour of the news industry, but they come with many questions and challenges. How do you maintain your paper’s integrity in such a different format, while offering readers a new and exciting experience that they will be prepared to pay for? Do you need new content? How do you allocate resources in the newsroom, and how closely do developers work with journalists?

• Wolfgang Blau, Editor-in-Chief, ZEIT ONLINE, Germany
• Mario Garcia, CEO and Founder, Garcia Media, USA
• Stephanie Jolivot, Publisher, Madame Figaro, France
• Béla E. Papp, Publishing Director, Ringier Studios, Switzerland

 

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

 

17.00 - 18.15 Session 7

How to tell the truth during a revolution

The protests that have led to political upheaval in the Arab world, in countries where press freedoms are extremely limited, provide a considerable challenge for all news organisations, both local and foreign. During such events, where the sequence of events is highly complex, the issues extremely sensitive, and the dangers to those on the ground all too evident, how can news organisations best succeed in their mission to tell the truth? How can they use social media to best effect?

• Hoda Abdel-Hamid, Roving Correspondent, Al Jazeera English, Qatar
• Magda Abu-Fadil, Director, Journalism Training Programme, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• Gamal Eid, Human Rights Lawyer, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Egypt
• Philippe Massonnet, Global News Director, Agence France-Presse, France
• Plus more speakers to be announced

Joint session with World Newspaper Congress

18.20 Ukraine: renewal and renovation for UEFA EURO 2012
Cocktails and caviar with Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister

• Boris Kolesnikov, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

• Hanna German, Advisor to the President of Ukraine, Head of the main administration on humanitarian and socio-political issues of the Presidential Administration

 
Boris Kolesnikov, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, and Hanna German, Advisor to the President of Ukraine, invite editors for cocktails, caviar and an informal dialogue about the upcoming UEFA European Football Championship in Ukraine. Mr Kolesnikov, who is personally responsible for all preparations, speak about the construction and renovation process, including the readiness of fan zones and the rising quality of service in Ukraine for football fans and others.
 
Pre-registration for this event is required

Free evening. For evening suggestions please visit the www.wan-ifra.org/vienna2011

 

18.45 - 20.00

”Guided visit to Neu Marx”

A location for media, research and technology grows

A new media hotspot is emerging in the 3rd city district of Vienna-Landstrasse. More than 5000 people work there already, and their number will increase to about 15,000 by 2016. Alongside existing buildings, some of which are classified for preservation as architectural monuments, new projects are being realised at breathtaking speed. Come and experience an unforgettable inspection of the location.
More information please visit the website: www.neumarx.at.
For registration contact: office@neumarx.at.
 

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants. Limited places.

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Saturday, 15 October 2011

8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast

Frontline stories from the Arab Spring

Journalists and bloggers from the Arab World share their experiences about covering and participating in the revolution.

• Shahira Amin, former Deputy Head of Nile TV International, Egypt
• Plus more speakers to be announced.
  For pre-registered participants only

 

9.00 – 10.30 Session 8

Paywalls, from the newsroom perspective

More and more publications have been experimenting with online paywalls, hoping they might revolutionise online business models. Are paywalls the answer, or is there another way that editors can help their newspapers make money online? Editors with experience of different types of paid digital content will talk about the effect that this has had on their newsrooms and on their jobs, and will offer their advice to colleagues who intend to follow them along this path.

• Matúš Kostolný, Editor-in-Chief of SME, Slovakia
• Dirk Nolde, Mananing Editor, Berliner Morgenpost Online, Germany
• Jim Roberts, Assistant Managing Editor at The New York Times, USA
• Bill Mitchell, Leader of Entrepreneurial and International Programs, Poynter, USA

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 Session 9

Global Report on innovations in newspapers

The annual presentation of the Innovations in Newspapers World Report, prepared for WAN-IFRA by the team from Innovation Media Consulting, is always one of the highlights of the Congress and Editors Forum. This year, the focus is on how to make paywalls work; how to re-invent narratives and workflows for the mobile news experience; and the impact and implications of the iPad. The presentation will also examine newspaper engagement with social media, and with the communities they serve. And, as always, the presentation will be illustrated with case studies from all over the world.

Joint session with World Newspaper Congress

 

12.00 - 12.10 Outlook 2012

64th World Newspaper Congress

19th World Editors Forum,

2 – 5 September 2012, Kiev, Ukraine

Boris Lozhkin, President Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers, Ukraine

 

12.15 – 13.00 World Editors Forum Annual General Assembly Meeting

12.15 - 13.30

Facebook for journalists workshop

Facebook representatives will provide tips and advice on how the premiere social network can be better used by newsrooms, both to find sources and reach a larger audience.

• Tina Kulow, Corporate Communication Manager, Facebook, Germany
• Andreas van de Castel, Platform Partnerships Manager, Facebook, Germany

 

12.15 – 14.15 Lunch

 

14.15– 15.30 Session 10

Looking beyond the article

News stories can now be told in so many ways that go beyond straightforward text and photos. This session will take a look at some of these innovations in story telling and how they make stories more compelling and add to the reader’s understanding.

• Bill Adair, Founder and Editor, Politifact, USA
• Scott Klein, Editor of News Applications at ProPublica, USA
• Justin Peters, Managing Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review online, USA
• Marcelo Rech, Director General for Product, RBS, Brazil
• Bobby Schweizer, co-author of 'Newsgames: Journalism at Play', USA

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15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 17.30 Session 11

Profit, public interest, ethics – where to draw the line?

In the pursuit of stories that are in the public interest, where should the line be drawn? Is it justifiable to pose as someone you’re not? Is it justifiable to pay sources? In the course of the phone hacking scandal in the UK, Rupert Murdoch said: “our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be a positive force in society.” How can executives on the editorial and publishers side make sure that news organisations live up to those standards? This session explores how today’s news organisations can ensure quality journalism, press freedom and maintain the balance between ethical standards and pleasing our customers in times when the industry is under high pressure to gain audience.

• Roy Greenslade, Professor of Journalism, City University, London, UK
• Tom Kent, Standards Editor and Deputy Managing Editor, Associated Press, USA
• Jacob Mollerup, President of The Danish Association for Investigative Journalism and The Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO), Denmark
• Andrew Trench, Editor of Media24 Investigations, South Africa

Joint session with World Newspaper Congress

19.30 - 22.00 Gala Dinner
with entertainment in the Art Nouveau building of the Wiener Konzerthaus as
the networking highlight at the end of the Congress. Musical entertainment with KK Strings, a string quartet of another kind, bringing the international music charts of the last three centuries, from Strauss to Falco, from Figaro to The Third Man.

Dress code: cocktail attire