WEF conducts future of newspapers survey

9 Apr 2010

The World Editors Forum and McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, are jointly conducting the Newsroom Barometer survey which will examine attitudes about newsroom strategies, new business models, leadership, and the future of news in the digital era. The survey aims to provide a picture of how editors foresee the future of their jobs and the future of journalism.

WEF conducts future of newspapers survey

Eric Hazan, partner in McKinsey & Company, will present the Newsroom Barometer results on 8 June 2010 during the annual World Editors Forum conference, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7 - 10 June 2010. The Newsroom Barometer survey is carried out in April and May 2010; editors-in-chief and other senior newsroom executives who wish to participate may contact Bertrand Pecquerie, executive director of the World Editors Forum, by email at .

Improving newsroom strategy and management

"The aim of the Newsroom Barometer is to gain better knowledge of the changes in newsrooms through the eyes of editors-in-chief and senior news executives," said Pecquerie. "Every two years since 2006, we poll on some of the same questions, and track important shifts at news organisations around the world. The goal is that the survey becomes a tool for helping editors-in-chief to improve both their newsroom strategy and their newsroom management."

The 17th World Editors Forum, along with the 63rd World Newspaper Congress and Info Services Expo, are expected to bring up to 1,500 chief editors, publishers, managing directors and other senior newspaper executives to Lebanon. The events, organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), and hosted by the An-Nahar newspaper, are the global summit meetings of the world's press.

Speakers at the Editors Forum include:

Marcus Brauchli, executive editor, Washington Post, USA;
Bart Brouwers, managing editor for Hyperlocal Online Media, Telegraaf Media Group, The Netherlands;
Josh Cohen, senior business product manager, Google News, Google, USA;
Alfredo Triviño, director of Creative Projects, News International, UK;
Wataru Sawamura, foreign editor, Asahi Shimbun, Japan;
Abdel-Moniem Said, chairman of the board, Al-Ahram group in Egypt;
Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief and founder of ProPublica, USA;
Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press; and
Ricardo Gandour, director and executive editor, O Estado de S. Paulo Group, Brazil.

For more information, go to www.wanlebanon2010.com.