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WAN-IFRA’s annual ‘World Press Trends’ report released at #WPE14

More than half the world’s adult population reads a daily newspaper, and while digital is growing, newspaper companies still receive a large majority of their global revenue from their print versions, according to the 2014 World Press Trends report released by WAN-IFRA this week.

How Yedioth is transforming its printing house into a profit centre

During the opening session of WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum on Wednesday in Amsterdam, Dr. Assaf Avrahami, CEO, Technology & Operation at Israel’s Yedioth Group, discussed how his group has transformed its printing house into a profit centre by actively pursuing outside printing jobs.

Your new mobile news habit – building loyalty and revenue

In the US and Europe, mobile growth is rapidly outstripping desktop. So why is it so often still a silo in the newroom? The New York Times and Aftonbladet have taken two very different approaches to solving this.

Fast track to the future; the Media Innovation Hub

It’s the Visual Reality news and the Google Glass that have probably caught your eye about the Media Innovation Hub during the World Publishing Expo in Amsterdam. Or perhaps the Snapchat news channel with its promise of self-destructing news snippets that melt away as you read.

One to keep an eye on: ViewMy.TV

“We structure the prices so that we know the customers are always making a positive ROI of over 250 percent,” says Stephen Ong, founder of Viewmy.tv, during World Publishing Expo in Amsterdam

Tablet & App Summit – Summary in 10 Tweets

Engagement: that was the theme that ran through #TAS14 in Amsterdam. With speakers demonstrating an extraordinary willingness to share, an active audience with pertinent questions, and a busy twitter feed, this was a truly interactive summit. But engagement is also an important issue for mobile.

Hong Kong’s besieged Apple Daily reaps awards, relies on mobile to be heard

“Right now, we have a huge civil disobedience movement fighting for real elections that the Chinese don’t want us to have. The police have tear-gassed peaceful demonstrations, and in the past two days, we have people outside our company in trucks blocking us so we can’t put our paper out … but we have a very good mobile service.”

#TAS14: Winners of first WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards honoured

Excellence knows no borders and the World Digital Media Awards showed that with a selection of the best of the best from around the globe.

Smarter ways to reach a bigger audience: The International Newsroom Summit hears from the field’s innovators and experts

It is becoming increasingly clear that news organisations need to think creatively about reaching their digital readers. A session at the International Newsroom Summit on smart new ways to reach your audience provided a range of examples of how news organisation are engaging their readerships beyond their websites. Emma Goodman reports.

#WPE14: New KBA RotaJET L-Series aimed at changing market demands

KBA unveiled its KBA RotaJET L-Series, a new flexible and adaptable high-volume inkjet product series, at World Publishing Expo 2014 in Amsterdam.