Convergence

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf has agreed to open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2008, the global summit meetings of the world’s press, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden, next June. The events, organised by the World Association of Newspapers, are expected to draw more than 1,500 newspaper publishers, managing directors, CEO, chief editors and other senior...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has launched a new website to support and promote the use of cross-media audience measurements that will allow publishers to provide a more complete picture of their reach than print circulation alone. The website for the Media Measurement Initiative Task Force contains the latest research and insights regarding the rapidly changing landscape of online...

Reuters and Nokia have joined hands for a project that, they claim, will change the face of journalism worldwide. The two organisations have showcased their first project, a new mobile application, which gives journalists everything they need to file and publish news from the most remote regions of the world. Through an ongoing trial that started this summer, selected Reuters journalists around

Traditionalists devoted to the old Henry Luce idea of a newsweekly may be viewing Time magazine's recent makeover with discomfort, but Madison Avenue is down with the program. Media buyers praised this week's radical new look for playing up individual voices in the magazine -- brand names which, in turn, are supposed to direct younger readers to the Web. "The success for magazines and even...

Most of us desire to read as many newspapers as possible but are not able to do so for many reasons. But now with the help of a newly developed technology anyone can browse up to 10 newspapers on a cellular phone. Launched in Hyderabad, the first ever M-Paper enables one to read 10 complete English newspapers from India through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled telephone instruments. The...

Los Angeles Times Editor James E. O'Shea unveiled a major initiative Wednesday to combine operations of the newspaper and its Internet site — a change he said was crucial to ensuring that The Times remains a premier news outlet. O'Shea employed dire statistics on declining print advertising revenue to urge The Times' 940 journalists to throw off a "bunker mentality" and view latimes.com as the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post Co. plans to have its veteran editors help shape the way stories appear on the Web in the latest example of how top U.S. publishers are retooling news operations for the Internet. The Washington Post's Web site, launched more than a decade ago, has been a bellwether among online news publishers because of its early success at attracting readers online and...

NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Gannett Co. Inc. (GCI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to overhaul its local newsrooms to report stories around the clock using text, audio and video, as it tries to retain readers who are deserting newspapers for other media. Gannett's Information Center project is designed to let its 89 local papers disseminate local news and information "when, where and how our...

WHAT is black, white and read all over? goes the old joke. The answer might once have been a plain old newspaper, but try telling that to the staff of the Financial Times. Those reporting for work at the pink ‘un today are coming to terms with the launch of the UK’s first completely integrated newsroom. From now on all the material that appears on ft.com, email news alerts, blogs, podcasts and all...

It is a newspaper with a circulation of only 20,000 copies, and having online and cable television operations, in the middle of a cornfield in the state of Kansas in the US, which provides a classic case study for newspaper publishers incorporating elements of the practical convergence philosophy into their operations. SAME WORK: Radio journalist Lars Kryger in Ringkjøbing, right, records a radio...