As the 2007 Cape Town World Association of Newspapers’ Conference and World Editors Forum’s meeting on a wet, cool Wednesday drew to a close, the first-year winners of the Knight News Challenges were announced by Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation.
David Trads, Editor-in-Chief at Nyhedavisen in Denmark
David Trads launched his presentation by making a definite distinction between so-called first and second generation free newspapers. The Nyhedavisen in Denmark is a great example of a potentially successful free, national and quality newspaper.
Video address from Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and Archbishop of Cape Town
In a live video feed, Tutu welcomed all media people to this 16
th World Editors Forum and 60
th conference of the World Association of Newspapers in South Africa.
After their speeches, the group on stage during the Reuters Master Class at the 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town fielded some questions from participants curious about the role that social and citizens media will play in the media landscape.
Deputy Managing Editor of the New York Times,
Jonathan Landman, joined delegates at the 14th World Editors Forum to present speech focused on the exciting consequences of change in newsrooms and newspapers everywhere, and the many developments taking place faster than the speed of printing. The one thing the modern newspaper’s practitioners cannot be is to be scared of change.
After the opening ceremonies of the
60th World Newspaper Congress, CEO of the World Association of Newspapers,
Timothy Balding, gave an update on the state of the global newspaper publishers in his annual World Trends in the Newspaper Industry.
This Round Table discussion is a critical one: how to engage the youth and younger generations in newspaper reading. This subject is of particular importance in terms of democracy-building and responsible citizenship in the future. As one of the panel members reminded the audience – a decline in youth readership is equal to general readership decline. It was also emphasized that one third of the world’s population are “youth” (under the age of 25).
Panel members and their points of departure:
