Join study tour to news organisations

PARIS, FRANCE: A tour aimed at CEOs, managing directors, editors-in-chief and senior news executives who are interested in bringing their newsroom forward is being organised by Newsplex and the World Editors Forum (WEF) from 15-20 May 2011 in the US.

The tour will go to Washington, DC and New York to visit The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Associated Press, FourSquare, Press+, NBC and MSNBC, AARP and the Newseum. Participants also will have lunch with John Paton, CEO of the Journal Register Company, to learn about his company's significant turnaround.

"The US has been a proving ground for innovative products and new approaches for generating revenue," said Dietmar Schantin, executive director of Newsplex, the multimedia training centre of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). "We will be looking at media companies that have implemented their editorial operations in new and very interesting ways. There is a lot to learn from them."

To register, go to www.wan-ifra.org/mmnewsrooms-studytour.

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Executive Director of Communications and Public
Affairs, WAN-IFRA, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1
47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail:
larry.kilman@wan-ifra.org.