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World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA

May 2012

Re-thinking competition: Metro franchise for local newspapers

Metro is today Swedens most read newspaper, with around 630 000 copies per day. The newspaper is currently trying to reach out to the countryside through collaboration with local media, and in that way reach even more readers than they currently have. 

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Hannah Fahd

Date

2012-05-31 15:27

Re-thinking competition: teaming up with Google

Google needs help reaching out, and local news have the right connections with the small and midsize advertisers, to be good partners. In Sweden, NTM, Eskilstuna-Kuriren and Västerbottens-Kuriren now cooperate with Google to find new revenues.

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Annica Widlert

Date

2012-05-31 14:46

UK regional trends: adapting to changing consumer behaviour

In the UK, the downwards spiral in print circulation has initiated a new trend among regional newspapers, and it is not investing in digital yet. Instead the alternative chosen was to move from daily publication to weekly only. Herald Express and Media was first to go, and soon several others followed. Will this be a trend for Nordic regionals soon too? Andy Phelan, Editor, Express & Echo, Northcliffe Media, UK tells his story. 

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Author

Kristina Bürén

Date

2012-05-31 12:38

Beating competition through the cloud

Today’s media companies see a growing digital competition even from players outside the traditional media sphere. This presentation brought up how media companies can cut back on IT costs, shorten time-to-market and work more effectively with the help of cloud services.

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Author

Malin Picha

Date

2012-05-31 12:11

Re-thinking online opportunities: In the mind of a news aggregator start-up

One can always learn a lot from a start-up company. One example is Finnish company Scoopinion which is a news service that aggregates and serves stories through “crowdcuration”. Stories are curated based on how well they are received. All readers get a personalized daily web issue based on their interests.

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Author

Malin Picha

Date

2012-05-31 11:43

Facebook increases newspapers' online traffic

The reach of social media continues to grow, but many still ask the question: how can publishers benefit from this development?

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Author

Malin Picha

Date

2012-05-31 10:39

Nordic best practice of data-driven journalism

As a consequence of the current digitization, the amount of raw data in organizations and businesses is growing. This gives new opportunities for data-driven journalism.

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Author

Malin Picha

Date

2012-05-31 10:17

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Kirstin Houser

Date

2012-05-30 18:32

Closing keynote: Becoming a local lean news machine

Final speaker of the day, Urs Gossweiler from Gossweiler Media in Switzerland, talked about innovative thinking and integrated solutions at the Jungfrau Zeitung.

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Author

Malin Picha

Date

2012-05-30 16:43

One year later – a tablet-only newspaper for the Åland archipelago

During last year’s Nordic Local Media Conference, Finnish Hufvudstadsbladet presented their project on tablets in the archipelago of Åland, aiming at removing the printed paper in expensive distribution areas.

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Author

Malin Picha

Date

2012-05-30 16:34

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