Interview with Rich Wellins, Development Dimensions International

IFRA: What are some of the key findings of your recent research on leaders? Wellins: Well, we are showing number 1, that confidence in leadership is at an all-time low. We survey ...>

Interview with Anna Kirah, CPH Design 1 2 3

IFRA: What are some of the key points from your latest work on the notion of crisis and how to innovate to succeed? Kirah: I think the first thing that people need to do is stop think ...>

Marek Kostrzewinski über seine Erfahrungen in Indien

Text not yet available in English. IFRA: Erzählen Sie ein bisschen von sich: Wie alt sind Sie? Wo stammen Sie her? Was ist Ihr beruflicher Background und welche Aufgaben haben Sie b ...>

Panchaksharam Mohanraj on his experiences in Germany

December 2008. In fall 2008 Panchaksharam Mohanraj worked for almost three months at Rheinisch Bergische Druckerei in Düsseldorf as an exchange engineer coming from the South Indian newspaper ...>

Matthias Tietz on technical exchange programme

Text not yet available in English. Kennengelernt haben sich M. Tietz und K. Balaji 2005 in Dallas, Texas, wo anlässlich der Nexpo auch ein Meeting der Technischen Arbeitsgruppe (TG) de ...>

Kasturi Balaji on technical exchange programme

Kasturi Balaji is Director of The Hindu Group. He and Matthias Tietz, Managing Director of Rheinisch Bergische Verlagsgesellschaft (Rheinische Post), both members of the IFRA Advisory Council ...>

Q&A with James O'Shea, former L.A. Times editor

James O’Shea spent approximately 25 years with Chicago-based Tribune company in a variety of positions, eventually becoming managing editor of the Chicago Tribune in 2001. In late 2006, h ...>

Seeking personnel through personal connections and the internet

Available only in Russian Дмитрий Мурзин, заместитель генерального директора «Медиаком» - главный редактор газеты «Сити клуб», нового еженедельника City club, который будет ра ...>

When media companies use recruiting agencies

Available only in Russian Наша практика показывает, что 60-70 процентов издателей заполняют вакансии на руководящие должности через личные связи и по рекомендациям знакомых, а не чер ...>

Q&A with Magdalena Kock, Stampen Group

Magdalena Kock sits on the corporate management team (5 persons) for Stampen AB, including all properties of Stampen (newspapers and printing companies) and she’s also part of the management team that comprises those 5 persons + the managers of each business units. She ...>

Pierre Baudhuin, directeur des ressources humaines du quotidien Ouest France*

Not yet available in English techniques de presse : Existe-t-il une conception particulière des ressources humaines dans le groupe Ouest-France ? ...>

Q&A with Anthony Cheng, Singapore Press Holdings

newspaper techniques: What are the challenges of hiring good managers and to keep them, speaking more on the production side? Anthony Cheng: Hiring and keeping good mana ...>

Q&A with Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation

nt: How do you keep good managers from going to other fields or other competitors? Alberto Ibargüen: There are a couple of things. Number one, you treat people with res ...>

Q&A with Sheila R. Solomon, Chicago Tribune

newspaper techniques: How do you keep good managers from going to other fields or other competitors? Sheila R. Solomon: By providing challenging opportunities. So ...>

Q&A with Butch Ward, Poynter Institute

newspaper techniques: How do you retain good managers – from going to other fields or other competitors? Butch Ward: In some ways the way to retain a good manager is just how to retain a good journalist in general: You create an environment in which it ...>

Q&A with Kathleen Pellegrino, recruitment editor

newspaper techniques: How do you retain good managers – from going to other fields or other competitors? Kathleen Pellegrino: I think one of the hallmarks of the Sun->

Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei's intensive management development programme

We have featured this company many times in the magazine over the years, whether it was for its membership into the International Newspaper Color Quality Club or for its other quality and p ...>

Interview with Mark Kurtich

On 8 February, the Los Angeles Times closed its San Fernando Valley plant, one of three plants that it had been operating. Here, Mark Kurtich, senior vice president of operations for the Tribune Co.-owned newspaper explains why this decision was made and how the Los An ...>

Interview with Barry Dennis

newspaper techniques: What have been the results of the restructuring at Archant Norfolk? Barry Dennis: The results of it all are a bit unknown as yet, but from where I sit it's all about the principle of working smarter. When you have two or three u ...>

Interview with John Morton

newspaper techniques: This is not the first time we’ve seen cost reduction in the newspaper industry – and it certainly won’t be the last – but the impetus for the recent round of staff cuts seems a bit unclear. Are we seeing a survival instinct kick in, or so ...>

Bruno Hocquart de Turtot on the situation in France

On 2 November 2005, after 18 months of negotiations, the publishers of the French regional newspapers signed an agreement with the trades unions on the reorganisation of technical jobs. Betwee ...>

Steve Outing on the stakes in the newsrooms

Steve Outing is senior editor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. newspaper techniques: Do you fear a reduction in quality of journalism? Steve Outing: Definitely. You ...>

Interview with Joachim Türk

Joachim Türk is editor in chief of the Rhein-Zeitung, a regional daily in Koblenz, Germany. Klaus von Prümmer, senior editor for newspaper techniques, spoke with Türk about the company’s recent reorganisation. newspaper techniques: The Rhein- ...>