Global advertisers discuss shift of classifieds to digital, both online and mobile

Advertisers from around the world gathered at the 23rd World Advertising Forum to discuss current trends in classified advertising, and the importance for news organisations to establish a presence on digital platforms. Classifieds have been a traditional revenue driver for print newspapers, but this model has been increasingly challenged by the advent of pure players and online competitors.

‘Reinvent or we will fail’

“At RBS, today everything is about breaking paradigms. If we don’t break paradigms, we will fail,” said Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer, CEO of RBS, a leading Brazilian regional multimedia publishing group.

Special address by Thailand’s Prime Minister

Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra opened Tuesday’s Congress encouraging the nearly 1600 media executives to dutifully fulfill their role as watchdogs but to do so responsibly.

Short-run newspaper printing: Inkjet competes with offset and vice versa

Offset and inkjet are drawing closer also in the short-run newspaper segment. The thresholds within which a production process can be used efficiently are shifting: upwards in the case of inkjet, downwards for offset. At the point where these thresholds intersect, a short-run range is emerging in which certain press categories for both processes compete.

Business disruption is the norm, says Wired UK Editor David Rowan (with video)

We need to reframe the conversation around journalism and business models for news, without just talking about ‘digital’ and ‘paywalls,’ said David Rowan, editor of Wired UK, at the World Editors Forum in Bangkok. Wired is about the future, about people who are changing the world, about startups and entrepreneurs, and Rowan said he hoped to channel some of that mindset to “explain why we need to think bigger.”

‘Change will never be this slow again’

2013-06-04. If you think the pace of change has increased in recent years, you’ll really need to brace yourself for the near future. In a stunning presentation about the outlook for 2016 and beyond, Andreas Vogiatzakis, CEO of Omnicom Media Group, Malaysia, said the changes in the next five years will be greater than those that have happened in the past 10 years.

DMG Media CEO shares ideas on success of MailOnline, Mail Newspapers

2013-06-04. For decades, media executives have been discussing new business models for news, a trend exacerbated by the boom of digital news. Kevin Beatty, CEO of DMG Media in the UK, part of DMGT, which owns the world’s most popular newspaper site, MailOnline, was among the speakers who shared ideas on how news organizations can successfully make the transition to the digital world, during the third session of the 65th World Newspaper Congress.

Publishers Launch Global Exchange on Copyright

On the sidelines of the World Newspaper Congress, publishers gathered to share experiences, at the global level, with online content aggregators and how they impact the news business. The IP and Copyright Forum is born.

A man for his country, a media for a nation

After 50 years of military rule, Myanmar is now undergoing an exceptional period of transition. The generals who seized power in a 1962 coup d’état kept a tight grip on power, crushing dissent, denying opposition and closing the country off from the world. Dramatically, over the past two years the army has stepped back to allow for a transition to civilian government, with elections scheduled for 2015 hopefully signalling a return to genuine democracy.

Web allows politicians to sidestep journalists, craft their own coverage

Journalists have long complained that the Obama administration’s distance from the press is a “disgrace,” as veteran White House reporter Ann Compton wrote in February. But, fueled by the ease of web publication, the worrisome trend is catching on despite protests.