WAN-IFRA India 2014
focuses on young readers,
monetisation and efficient operations
New Delhi has been a chosen venue gathering more than 300 delegates to discuss
the best practices and ideas in engaging young readers and other case studies on
modern news operations at WAN-IFRA India 2014 Conference at Le Meridien
from September 17-18. Get a pre-event glimpse here.
The 22nd WAN-IFRA
Conference for South
Asian Publishers brings
some of the best minds in
business together and attempt
to provide a direction to the
news publishing business in the
region. Vincent Peyregne, CEO,
WAN-IFRA will open the annual
conference with the keynote
presentation on ‘World Press
Trends 2014’. The conference
offers three parallel programmes
– Newsroom Summit for Editors
and Newsroom Managers;
Printing Summit for Newspaper
Production Managers; and
Crossmedia Advertising Summit
for Advertising Managers
and Business Development
Executives.
Key opportunities
The conference also offers the
opportunities to meet the leading
suppliers of news publishing
industry who are participating in
the info-table exhibition in the
adjoining conference halls and
as sponsors. Formal release of
WAN-IFRA’s latest special report
on Newsprint Waste Management
authored by K Balaji, director,
Kasturi & Sons, the publishers
of The Hindu newspaper and
WAN-IFRA board member will
also be another flavour on the
sideline of the conference.
Exclusive sessions
Sessions on different topics and
aspects of the industry will cast
an allurement during the twoday
conference.
The Story Telling Revolution:
What are the modern practices
in story telling, how to balance
advertisers’ pressures on
editorial content, what are
the challenges of investigative
journalism? TN Ninan,
chairman, Business Standard
Ltd, India and World Editors
Forum board member; Kevin
Anderson, regional executive
editor, Gannett Wisconsin
Media, USA; and Rob Rose,
investigative journalist with
Sunday Times in South Africa
will share their insights in
this session.
Multiple Platform Publishing
and Revenue Models: How
did Malayala Manorama, the
print-strong India daily
newspaper gears up to face
the digital revolution? How to
convince the users to subscribe
to paywall, will iTunes of
print media be the saviour
of newspapers? What are the
web-first experiences of Mint,
the business daily from India?
Mariam Mammen Mathew,
COO, Manorama Online;
Andrew Holden, editor-in-chief
of The Age, Australia; Thomas
Smolder, head – International
Roll-out of blendle, The
Netherlands; and R Sukumar,
editor, Mint will share stage.
Achieving and Sustaining
Operational Excellence:
This session will feature
best practice case studies by
Snehasis Roy, associate vice
president, ABP Pvt Ltd, India;
Sunil Patil, senior manager &
Amit Gupta, dy. chief manager,
Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd; PK
Philip, chief general manager,
Malayala Manorama and Rolf
Wuthrich, head – post press,
Ringier Print Adilgenswil,
Switzerland.
Cross media Revenue Strategies:
Tapping the growing
digital market and at the same
time building your brand for
multiple media, Rahul Kansal,
executive president, Bennett,
Coleman & Co Ltd; Shantanu
Bhanja, vice president –
marketing, HT Media, India;
and Kedar Gavane, director,
comScore India will share their
experiences.
Frenemis in Digital World: If
search engines and social media
networks bring bulk of traffic to
publishers’ sites, what is the way
forward to publishers to ensure
their share of business? This will
be a talk by Florian Nehm, head
of corporate sustainability & EU
affairs, Axel Springer, Germany.
Drone Journalism: Will drones
be increasingly used in content
gathering? What is the future?
Sithikorn Wongwudtianun,
photographer, The Bangkok
Post, Thailand will present this
session.
Panel Discussion: Is young
readers moving away from
news? How to engage the young
readers to secure the future of
news media? All these will
be in discussion led by Raj
Chengappa, editor-in-chief, The
Tribune, India and discussed by
Jacob Mathew, executive editor,
Malayala Manorama, India &
WAN-IFRA immediate past
president; and Sanjay Gupta,
editor-in-chief & CEO, Jagran
Prakashan Ltd, India & World
Editors Forum board member.
The conference also includes
three parallel pre-conference
workshops on September 16 on
Data Journalism, New Media
Metrics and Densitometry.
