3 days focused on strategy and best practice, including dedicated CMS Day
Register here!We will be updating the Newsroom Summit programme with new sessions and confirmed speakers in the next days. Stay tuned for updates!
*Simultaneous translation will be provided in Spanish, French, German and Italian
*All talks are in Central European Time (CET)*
In this Q&A we ask the Senior Vice President Editorial for the Schibsted Group about several key projects he is deploying across the group’s newsrooms. From automation, to translation robots, text 2 speech for audio projects, and of course, where they stand in the personalisation of the news products’ home pages.
Zawya.com is a financial and business news website owned by Refinitiv Limited, an LSEG company. Zawya.com was founded in 2000 in London and re-located to Dubai in 2002. Zawya.com pioneered the concept of online subscriptions in the Middle East, providing profiles of thousands of companies and projects. The company grew over the years with a large client base before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in June 2012. Over the last 20 plus years, Zawya.com has expanded its coverage and is now amongst the leading bi-lingual online news providers in the Middle East. This session will highlight the challenges in digital content management for a fast-moving online news platform, the “build vs buy” dilemma and how Zawya.com has leveraged Atex solutions to upgrade its technology and match its audience expectations.
From newspapers to digital channels, Ilkka’s products and services have been an integral part of the daily lives of the people of Ostrobothnia, Finland, for over 100 years. Discover how Ilkka effectively transformed to digital as their Editor-in-Chief Markku Mantila shares the practical actions and the execution in this session.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shares how it’s transforming itself from a legacy publication to a nimble digital newsroom. Key to this transformation is the AJC’s embrace of machine learning and artificial intelligence, including a platform called Sophi.io. Developed by The Globe and Mail, Sophi.io has been helping the AJC unlock the value of its content and drive impressive results.
Planning CMS development projects and moving into the procurement phase for a new CMS: what should publishers keep in mind?
Discover the results from WAN-IFRA’s first international survey on changes in the workplace.
Have you taken the survey yet? Please take a few minutes now to give us your input! The survey is available in English, French German, Spanish and Portuguese. Click here!
In this session, you will hear how several media organisations are adjusting their daily operations and redefining their working culture around remote or hybrid work.
Science stories have been at the centre of the newsroom for the past two years – told by accidental science journalists and seasoned specialists. Science journalism is no longer a luxury but a critical theme that cuts across all beats in the newsroom. How can you step up your journalism so that it is rigorous, challenging and accessible?
The drive towards diversity and inclusion is felt across a wide range of industries, and the news media is no exception. What should an editor consider in order to improve diversity and inclusion in the newsroom? What practical steps can they take to promote a more inclusive workplace?
Do you want to upgrade your workplace’s digital tools? How about hearing about solutions that other publishers use? You’ll get a chance to see the tools and technology others are talking about in the Solutions Showcase session. Each speaker will give a 5-minute presentation, after which you are welcome to talk to them or request further information. If you would like to stay updated on the latest technology that can assist you in your digital transformation journey, please join us.
One channel is quite new, the other a favourite engagement tool for publishers and a newsroom essential. TikTok is a growing force from Spain, to France, to Kenya and Canada. How are newsrooms embracing it?
WAN-IFRA is conducting a study that looks at how news publishers are using newsletters to reach readers and build revenue. Have you taken the survey yet? If not, please take a few minutes to give us your input! Click here!
The Atlantic spent two years studying their readers’ needs. In this session, Emily will share what they learned and how it has affected the ways journalism is distributed.
AI and automation are clearly on the minds of publishers today. WAN-IFRA, in collaboration with Schickler Consulting, conducted a global survey to gauge how newsrooms are adopting AI and automation to help support not only their reader revenue strategies but other aspects of their newsroom operations.
Quotes are a key element of news articles. In this project, the Guardian’s data scientists joined forces with AFP to build a system that automatically extracts quotes from news articles and accurately attributes them to sources (people or organisations).
Media City Bergen and four member organisations collaborated with newsrooms worldwide to discover how AI can power storytelling. We will hear how the way journalists write their articles stands in the way of younger audiences engaging with news stories.
A storyline is a coherent, chronologically-ordered list of articles covering a sequence of events revolving around a particular phenomenon, with a beginning and eventually an end. We will hear from a team at Tamedia who researched on how we can use AI to automate storylines detection and better serve our audience.
Local business was an underreported segment at Norwegian regional title Bergens Tidende. With the new Business robot now automating company annual reports, the publisher can suddenly cover all industries. Bonus: the business coverage is a smash hit with subscribers – 10,000 of them read this content almost daily.
Anxiety in the newsroom is a challenge everywhere – whether rooted in the Ukrainian war, general concern for the future, or from the past two years.
This session will incorporate the experiences of those covering the Ukrainian conflict for Gen Z and Millennials, with limited resources, such as the group of experienced reporters reporting from Poland and Ukraine: Outriders.
