World Media Leaders Summit, World Editors Forum, Women in News Summit
Whether you’re a CEO, editor, or manager looking for innovative solutions, our program has something to offer you.
Programme Overview
LANGUAGE: All sessions are in English, unless otherwise stated. Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Japanese Interpretation will be provided. Please check the Congress app: Event Information > About WNMC to see which sessions offer translation.
In addition, the three days include different awards, community meetups and unrivalled social and networking events.
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Awarding of WAN-IFRA’s top honour, in recognition of outstanding action, in writing or deed, in the cause of press freedom.
The changing consumption patterns and the propensity of news consumers to pay for content profoundly impact the sustainability of media companies. Deeper insights from the new report to help you formulate the right strategies.
News Corp recently hit the milestone of one million paying customers for their digital properties in Australia. Michael will talk about how they accomplished this by focusing on quality journalism and, in the process transformed the organisation into an audience-centric one with a sustainable future.
Generative AI (for example, ChatGPT) has already sparked a revolution in the creative industries – and has the potential to disrupt media businesses, journalism and the information ecosystem. What are the upsides for news publishers and journalism, and where are commercial and ethical safeguards needed?
For many, the New York Times is the benchmark for journalistic excellence. What happens in its newsroom shapes editorial strategies around the world. Kahn has been in the top editor’s chair for almost a year. What changes has he introduced? What’s ahead, and what challenges keep him awake at night?
We are in Taipei at a time of extreme tension between Taiwan and China. Their deteriorating relationship impacts not only the region but global geopolitics and economies. This panel will explore the history, balance of power and impact on the region, the rest of Asia and beyond.
WAN-IFRA Women in News will announce the three recipients of its 2023 Editorial Leadership Awards. The annual WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award selects one outstanding woman editor from each of the three regions the programme operates in: the Arab region, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It is a career achievement award that acknowledges the exemplary contribution of an editor to her newsroom, and under her leadership, her media organisation’s contribution to society. The Women in News Editorial Leadership Award recognises excellence in media leadership, and an unwavering commitment to equality and press freedom.
Candidates are selected by the Editorial Leadership Award Selection Committee, which comprises members of the WIN Steering Committee and previous Laureates.
WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Awards Worldwide is the news media industry’s truly global digital media competition. With this award, we recognise news publishers who have delivered unique and original digital media projects.
The winners of our regional digital media awards in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas (North & Latin America) and South Asia will determine the 2023 World winners.
Opportunities to meet, mingle and make lasting contacts from around the world. During the evening you can enjoy the best of Taiwanese cuisine and the famous performance “Lian Jin-Feng“.
“Lian Jin-Feng” is a feast of singing, acting, narration, and dancing. The story tells of a poor girl named Lian Jin-feng who jumped into the wild sea to fish for sea cucumbers. One day she came upon a huge clam in the sea bottom. She struggled with the huge clam and was finally able to pick out of it a beautiful pearl. This opera was created by Maestro Mei Lan-fang, with a dance called An Exploration of the Sea and some of the most enchanting Mei-styled songs which lead the audience onto a fantastic journey of the wild sea. The role of Lian Jin-Feng is played by Kung Yueh-Tzu, one of the most promising young dan role performers in Taiwan, and co-performed by Yu Chi-Jou, a talented wu-dan role performer, in the scene called Pricking the Clam.
FT Strategies, the consultancy from the Financial Times, works with organisations globally to build valuable relationships with their customers and grow their businesses. A key component of this is audience diversity (or reaching new audiences) and in this session, FT Strategies will share the methodologies and learnings from their work in this area, including how the Financial Times approaches this.
Google and FT Strategies have partnered to create a news sustainability diagnostic tool. They will present and discuss 10 insights using data from the tool.
It has been almost two decades since pure digital players first emerged and took on the media establishment. This session will explore how over time, some digital natives have grown up and made their mark in the media ecosystem.
Founded in 2014, IDN Times has grown dramatically in a short span. Seeing a gap in news reporting for millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia and people who reside in the far reaches of the vast Indonesian archipelago, the digital publisher has honed its strategy to deliver content that resonates with this group of young readers. Today, it has over 80 million loyal readers and has been profitable since 2018. Winston will share the thinking behind his strategy, how it was executed, and the lessons learnt along the way.
Vox has learnt many precious lessons since its pioneering days as a digital native. Swati will talk about Vox’s purpose today, the media landscape that it is operating in, and why there is a constant need for reinvention. She will share the Vox team’s approach to their audience.
TNL Media Group, founded in 2013 by Harvard alumni Joey Chung and Mario Yang, was featured as a Harvard Business Review case study. With its foundations in Taiwan, TNL has attracted over 15 million millennial readers across East Asia. The start-up grew from a single website to one with numerous verticals and in the process, attracted investments from several marque investors, including Steve Chen, Co-Founder of YouTube.
A shift to being more-audience focused is changing newsrooms and how they go about their journalism. Hear from a mix of change agents listening to what audiences want and how this affects reach and impact.
This session will include ideas on Engaging Gen Z and Millennials, User Needs, New Formats, AI, Innovation and Social Engagement.
How this new type of news organisation is creating content to help Gen Z be better informed on the issues they care about. It’s also creating revenue streams to pay for serious journalism, and through newsletters and research* on “the generation changing everything”, helping people get to know Gen Z.
What has emerged from the inclusion lab, set up by Schibsted and the Tinius Trust to explore futures at the intersection of journalism, technology and democracy? They have been listening to Gen Z and have ideas on what future news experiences could be like – from new formats, journalism and platforms that cater for this audience.
How Vogue Taiwan considers the different needs of users on different platforms, including messaging app LINE, Instagram, Facebook, Search, and how the Aud Dev, editorial and video team plan big moments like cover reveals.
News media industry leaders share their transformation journey to profitability, the strategies and ideas that are working, and those that are not.
With over 10 million digital subscribers using its various products, Nikkei is, without a doubt, the most successful Asian news organisation in amassing digital subscriptions. Daisuke, who led Nikkei’s acquisition of the Financial Times in 2015, will share Nikkei’s 10-year journey of innovation, digital and global transformation, and their learnings following the FT acquisition.
Clarín has the distinction of reaching the highest-paid digital subscription in Latin America. In developing markets, getting digital subscribers has been a big challenge. The strategies and the success of Clarín provide valuable learnings.
Ringier media brands achieve growth by intentionally repositioning themselves using the 5R framework and consistently monitoring the conversion funnel. Blick, Ringier’s Swiss reach portal, has prioritized initiatives such as encouraging user engagement, offering digital subscriptions, and improving commerce capabilities to establish a thriving and sustainable media enterprise.
Scientists warn of significant future challenges – from future pandemics to extreme climate events, food security risks, to growing inequalities. When divided society questions and distrusts journalistic and scientific methods, can next-level journalism promote and enhance credibility on future issues of concern?
This session will include Trust, Storytelling, Fact-Checking, Collaboration, Press Freedom, Science in the Newsroom, Climate Change, Formats, Method and Engagement and Disaster Preparedness.
How to optimize your news experience, tell your stories, and reach new audiences on YouTube Shorts. We’ll discuss vertical video case studies and short content inspiration for news organizations.
This working lunch will celebrate the success of outstanding women newsroom leaders. It will also flag those committed to equality by making it a business and moral imperative. We will look at the progress and the challenge ahead.
The New York Times’ experiments with Cooking, Wirecutter and The Athletic have shown that there is a growing demand and willingness to pay for a connected portfolio of complementary and premium products. How does this strategy play out in different media markets? What are the learnings from Denmark to Indonesia and Taiwan?
Denmark’s leading news media company has achieved double-digit growth after years of stagnation. Stig will share the experiments and learnings from their digital subscriptions journey, creating B2B offerings and scaling up to convert the distribution business into a profit centre.
Kompas, the esteemed newspaper founded in 1965, had grown to become the largest media company in Indonesia. With success grounded in the reputation and trust of its printed product, its position needs to be translated into the digital ecosystem if KG Media is to create a sustainable model for the future. What are the strategies, and how can value be created and captured? Andy will share KG Media’s plans.
How NWT leveraged its brand to transform from being a legacy print media which is rapidly losing subscribers to one that is on a path to sustainability by dramatically increasing the number of younger subscribers and becoming the region’s number one digital news brand for people under 45.
In this context, Mr. Mohit Jain, Executive Director and Board member of the Times of India Group (BCCL), will explain the reasons behind this transformation and thus, a significant opportunity for Print.
Changing how your newsroom and business work is a continuous, all-consuming and often painful process. This session goes beyond the transformation from print to digital – to include initiatives to keep a culture of innovation alive in the face of rapid and continuous technological change. Different and extreme case studies from very different types of organisations.
This session will feature issues of Newsroom Transformation, Integration, Change Management, User Needs, Leadership, Local Journalism and Audience Focus.
Transformation is not just about moving from print to digital: this deep dive will explain the all-encompassing change process that Daily Maverick introduced and how it has grown from a startup into a serious, award-winning media house, with its members’ needs at the heart of its editorial focus and processes.
The group made quality local journalism the centrepiece of its business strategy. It is now layering in AI, technology, new tools and constant experimentation to drive strong audience and subscriber growth.
East Africa’s biggest legacy media group has been on a journey to reposition itself as the leading digital content creator in the region. The change process has involved a move to an integrated, audience-led newsroom, bringing together print, broadcast and digital operations.
United Innovation X Startups Open Mic
United Innovation, empowered by United Daily News Group, is the first and still only one accelerator established by media group in Taiwan. In this section, we have invited 10 outstanding startups to deliver short speeches, sharing their innovative solutions and successful case studies for the media and advertising industries. The list of startups will cover various fields, including AR/VR, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and virtual-physical integration, putting all these innovations to transform the traditional media industry’s business models, communication methods, and user experiences.
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A demonstration how different publishers apply user needs models to their content strategies. Audiences needs – or specific ways of telling a story – effectively connect your newsrooms, data and product strategy, make your content more engaging, relatable and actionable.
Join us for a lovely evening where we can enjoy each other’s company and experience the best Taiwanese cuisine as well as getting a glimpse into the culture thanks to the Nibun Chorus.
The Nibun Chorus was established in 2017 and is affiliated to the Kaohsiung Nibun Association. “Nibun” is derived from the Bunun language meaning “tooth”. The members of the chorus are from Kaohsiung Liou-Guei, Bao-Lai and Tao-Yuan districts who love to sing. Nibun Chorus is devoted to collecting and preserving local characteristics, by arranging cultural music such as indigenous, Hakka, Taiwanese new immigrants’ and Hokkien songs. Nibun Chorus has performed in many countries and had won the golden diploma in the category of “Folklore with accompaniment” in the “World Choir Games 2018” in South Africa.
We will meet at the beautiful Taipei Grand Hotel, a 14-story palace-like building, facing Keelung River, nestled against Yangming Mountain and overlooking Songshan in the east and Danshui in the west. Since 1952, the Grand Hotel has been standing midway up Yuanshan, a towering building with red columns, gilded tiles and a magnificent classic presence, a must-visit great gem of Chinese culture.
© Grand Hotel
Reuters leadership dives deep into the latest trends in media, the unmatched breadth of Reuters coverage in Asia, as well as what AI and disruptive technology means for news media with over 170 years of history like Reuters.
This session will discuss how AI and Web 3.0 technologies will shape the news industry of the future.
Originator Profile (OP) technology, a collaborative effort among more than ten media and tech organisations in Japan, will help internet users easily identify quality news articles and safe advertisements that are third-party verified, thus preventing the distribution of fake news content and ad fraud.
Through the lens of Gen Z, our speakers run us through why Web3 tools such as Wallets, NFTs and DAOs, when coupled with Artificial Intelligence, are helping media companies find new customers – and new pathways to profitability.
Journalism can be challenging (and damaging) in an age of disinformation, oppression and anger, particularly around elections. Are new approaches needed, some that involve all of society? Lessons from the Philippines, Brazil and Kenya and how journalists in countries like South Africa are trying to stay focused and safe. How do you assess and manage the long-term harm and moral injury that journalists face?
This session will feature issues of Press Freedom, Misinformation, Disinformation, Social Media, Democracy, Political Reporting, AI, Civil Society, Online Harassment, Safety of Journalists, Mental Health and Moral Injury.
ESG, a framework to assess an organisation’s business practices and performance on various sustainability and ethical issues, has become a hot discussion point in boardrooms. Investors and shareholders are looking at the ESG scorecards. This session will look at how Media companies are addressing the different aspects of ESG, including the move to carbon neutrality, diversity, equity and inclusion.
United Daily News (UDN) is among the leaders in the sustainability movement in the news media industry in Taiwan. The presentation will take the audience through the three key pillars of UDN’s efforts. One is the establishment of the “Vision Project Foundation” which encourages involvement from all sectors of society to promote sustainable practices. Secondly, through the “Sunshine Movement” feature where UDN reports on various environmental, educational, and social justice issues from a perspective of sustainability, oversight, and care. Finally, UDN takes action by promoting the installation of solar panels, resource recycling, water and electricity conservation, as well as participating in food bank programs, employee donations, and by providing materials to disadvantaged families. UDN also raises funds to help Taiwan rural students purchase books and improve lunch quality.
ESG goals are more than a box ticking, governance exercise. They need to be backed up with strategic and operational plans, especially on climate change. As organisations decide how they are going to both report on climate change and ensure they are themselves acting in the most sustainable ways possible to achieve that coverage, where do you even start? Now is a critical time for news leaders to understand how they build decision making processes and workflows that consider climate into all of their operations.
Annamarie Jamieson will talk about how to bring ESG principles to life in an authentic, practical way. She will touch on diversity – be it gender, ethnicity, beliefs, abilities, experiences and how it can bring a new lens through which businesses can learn, connect and grow.
Media organisations should reflect the world around them, in their content and in their newsrooms. But that’s not the only reason to invest in gender journalism.
Closing the gender news consumption gap improves your organisation’s bottom line. So, how do you do it?
This session will offer a range of strategies to reach the vast, largely untapped market of news consumers: women. It will show how to support the people who create this journalism and how to broaden coverage to ensure you stay relevant to your audience. Lastly, it will discuss the real-life impact of some of the best gender journalism around the world.
An energising end to the Congress: The annual report prepared by Juan Senor and team for WAN-IFRA will provide valuable insights, case studies and tangible ideas to take home.
Come to Delta and start an innovative, energy-saving journey.
Delta, founded in 1971, is a global leader in switching power supplies and thermal management products. The Delta Tech tour gives you the opportunity to visit the “Delta Smart WELL Office” as well as the 8K Theater.
By incorporating “human-oriented” architectural concepts into its energy-efficient green building design and focusing on health and comfort, Delta has created a convenient and intuitive office space by dividing it into different areas. According to the varying requirements of the different areas, a corresponding automation management and control solution is provided. This solution includes features such as facial recognition access control systems and Indoor Air Quality Monitors.
The 8K theater offers stunning images in 8K resolution and can play 4K and FHD content. Allowing enterprises to display video materials on core concepts, products, and technologies, Delta’s 8K projector finds broad application in commercial, exhibition and media fields, such as broadcasting Olympic events, with customers worldwide.
Bus shuttle will be provided:
15:15 Nangang Exhibition Centre to Delta Headquarters
17:00 Delta Headquartes to Grand Hyatt Hotel
The tour information and registration link were sent separately via email to participants who had already registered. New registrants can find the registration link on the Congress registration page.
