When Trade Associations Do Dumb Things
Night Safari, Singapore, July 2006 – © Vin Crosbie When the newspaper industry is already limping, why do some of its major trade association further shoot it in the feet? That’s what the World...
View ArticleBeyond the Printed Word (Nov. 9-10) preview
Although was on sabbatical much of the Northern Hemisphere summer, I was inregular contact with Ifra, the world’s leading association for newspaper and media publishing, helping to organize their...
View ArticleBusiness Models for Newspaper Publishers conference
I criticized the American Press Institute‘s Newspaper Next project last month for wasting more than US$2 million and a year producing a “blueprint” to “transform the industry” that in reality turned...
View ArticleJim Chishold to Speak at 'Beyond the Printed Word'
There are two people who have more knowledge than anyone else about how to revive the newspaper industry, and one of them is iMedia Joint Principal Jim Chisholm. As co-chairman and co-moderator of the...
View ArticleCongratulations to Elan Lohmann of South Africa
Congratulations to Elan Lohmann, publisher of News24.com in South Africa, and Meredith Artley, Executive Editor of LATimes.com, who will co-chair Ifra’s 15th World Digital Publishing Conference, 8 – 9...
View ArticleDanny Dagan's Presentation at Ifra's Beyond the Printed Word conference
How what are the challenges in a popular tabloid creating user-generated content? Danny Dagan described some this morning at Ifra’s Beyond the Printed Word conference in Dublin. Dagan is head of...
View ArticleMonthly Circulation of 100,000 Without Printing or Website
At Ifra‘s Beyond the Printed Word conference this afternoon, Rowan Barnett described how his monthly newspaper has a circulation of 100,000 without publishing a website or in print. He is...
View ArticleIan Davies on the Importance of Geocoding Newspaper Stories
“People live locally,” Ian Davies, director fo business development of the British regional newspaper publishing company Archant Ltd., this afternoon reminded attendees of Ifra‘s annual Beyond the...
View ArticleHow Asahi Shimbun's 12 Mobile Phone News Sites Work
At Ifra‘s annual Beyond the Printed Word conference this afternoon, Atsushi Sato, deputy manager of the Digital Media Division of The Asahi Shimbun of Japan described how his newspaper operates its...
View ArticleHow Oslo's Dagbladet Newspaper Integrates Videos Into Its Website
Ole Werring, TV manager of Dabladet of Oslo, Norway, described to Ifra‘s annual Beyond the Printed Word online publishing conference how his newspaper has integrated video into its traditionally text...
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