I'm honored to share that an essay I wrote was selected by the International Olympic Committee for inclusion in the official book that was distributed at the Olympic Congress held in Copenhagen from October 3 to 5. This was a great opportunity, especially given our work on SochiReporter. Here's [...]
At the International Association of Sports Newspapers workshop last week, editors spoke about the way that multimedia news has affected their newsrooms, and how they hope to make more money online. The workshop was held at the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Stung from the 2008 election losses, Republican members of Congress are uploading videos to YouTube in much greater numbers than Democrats.
Here's what YouTube's Olivia Ma told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in Washington, D.C. last week. (At 2:00)
"It's been very stark to see how eager the'" [...]
Congressmen Tim Ryan (D-OH) launched his own custom social network yesterday, using the Ning platform. In and of itself, this isn’t particularly notable. Lots of politicians have launched their own Ning networks. However, in every case I know of the focus of the socnet [...]
A UK managing editor says outsourcing should not replace editorial staff, but it can be extremely helpful if correctly managed. 
An entrepreneurial journalist is advocating independent media as traditional media jobs decrease.During the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress, the founder of paidContent.org, Rafat Ali, said bloggers are not "poolside" entrepreneurs but actually put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their work.
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A UK Tabloid is not focusing on search engine optimization for their Web site but rather on human interests.
The opening day of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress brought three roundtable discussions and unexpected crowds to Hyderabad, India, on 30 November.
Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find [...]
While speaking at the Free Press Roundtable at the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India, Joze Ruben Zamora, publisher of El Periodico, Guatemala, detailed his battle against the oppression of free speech in his country.
Guatemala has a long history of violence, including [...]
Stephen Nilan, vice-president of marketing for Digital Technology
International Ltd., registers for the World Newspaper Congress shortly
after the 12:00 p.m. start.
Over the next few days, the Editors Weblog will be providing extensive coverage of the 62nd World Newspaper Congress and 16th World Editors Forum, working with our sister publications, the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper blog and the dedicated WAN-IFRA multimedia [...] 
The registration for the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum began at noon Monday.To ease registration traffic, conference badges were sent to the hotels of participants if the hotel was known, said Poland native and information director, Anna Kwawczyk.
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