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14.01.2010
Download Newsplex Europe Special
When IFRA started to develop the philosophy of convergence back in the late ’90s, many people were intrigued, but few took it seriously enough to actually question how web and print could work together strategically within daily newsroom operations. Read more ...

06.04.2009
Seven theses for a necessary paradigm change in the advertising business
Marketing and selling the digital offerings of newspaper newsrooms seems to be still a neglected topic in many newspaper houses. Read more ...

23.02.2009
IFRA's Newsroom Summit: Executive Summaries
The conference (12-13 February in Prague) examined how newsrooms can adapt to new needs during financial turbulent times. Read more ...

14.11.2008
Nottingham Evening Post's continuous news operation
Tamlyn Jones writes for HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk about the Nottingham Evening Post's 24/7 newsroom operation, which called on IFRA Newsplex to help in its reorganisation efforts.

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31.10.2008
IFRA mourns the death of Ian Davies
Ian Davies, director of group business development for Archant Media Group in UK, and friend of our IFRA Newsplex Team, was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, 29th of October. Read more ...

17.09.2008
UK editors gather at IFRA Newsplex workshop in London to discuss multimedia newsroom integration
The once thriving centre of UK publishing, Fleet Street, played host to IFRA's 1st workshop on 'Reorganising the Newsroom for Multimedia' on 11th September 2008, which was jointly organised by www.journalism.co.uk.. The sold-out workshop, led by Dr. Dietmar Schantin and Sarah Schantin Williams from IFRA Newsplex, gave editors a much-needed opportunity to brainstorm, gather fresh ideas and provoke lively debate for their multimedia journey. Read more ...

27.08.2008
AOP mobile forum - IFRA members benefit from AOP member rate
With a new generation of mobile phones and the growth of flat-rate tariffs, what opportunities does the mobile web now offer UK publishers? Read more ...

11.07.2008
IFRA Newsplex supports planning and implementation of new strategy at Nottingham Evening Post, UK
At Nottingham Evening Post, editorial convergence is about growing audience by delivering stories in the most effective as well as efficient way, with the strategy focussed on multimedia publishing. “We think that we are the best storytellers in town, but we are only using half that power if we stick to print only,” says Deputy Editor Martin Done, who is in charge of the convergence project. He brought IFRA Newsplex in to support planning and implementing the new strategy. Read more ...

06.05.2008
The future of newsrooms is integrated, claims editors survey
More than three quarters of newspaper editors believe that integrated newsrooms will be the norm for newspaper production in the next five years, a global survey has claimed. Eighty-six per cent of respondents to the Newsroom Barometer 2008 survey agreed that multimedia newsrooms - where digital and print productions run as one process - would dominate in the short term.
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09.04.2008
Dietmar Schantin on Newspapers’ New Channels
Former New York Times and International Herald Tribune correspondent Thomas Crampton, who now follows media strategy and technology closely, recently interviewed IFRA Newsplex Director Dietmar Schantin about the many opportunities today's newsrooms have to distribute their content on different media platforms. Access blog Read more ...

07.04.2008
WELT Group journalists in cross media training
In early summer 2006, Axel Springer CEO Dr. Mathias Döpfner shocked many of his staff, and most of media-Germany, by declaring that from now on it was “Online first”. Soon after, IFRA Newsplex was asked to set up workshops to train over 200 journalists from the giant publisher’s WELT Group, in the art of cross media production. Read more ...

05.03.2008
Newsroom Summit 2008: Executive Summaries
From 28 - 29 February 2008 participants of IFRA's Newsrrom Summit in Madrid learned about how newsrooms can succeed in the multi-platform age. More and more media companies all over the world are creating integrated multimedia newsrooms – with remarkable success. Read more ...

15.01.2008
IFRA Newsplex hits the road
This spring there are ample opportunities to meet the newsroom specialists from IFRA Newsplex at events around the world. Read more ...

29.10.2007
Reuters' Mobile Journalism Toolkit
The "Mobile Journalism Toolkit" has been introduced on the "Reuters Mobile Journalism" website. Read more ...

05.10.2007
The Telegraph wins AOP "Online Publisher of the year" award
The AOP Online Publishing Awards 2007, now in their sixth year, are designed to celebrate and reward excellence in all aspects of digital publishing and are established as a showcase of the most innovative and high-quality online content in the UK. Read more ...

18.09.2007
Newsplex presentations at IFRAExpo 2007
8-11 October, Vienna, Austria
At the IFRA XMA Cross-Media Awards Stand and the Solution Park, you are invited to join short presentations and lectures on media-convergent journalism. Read more ...

13.08.2007
Online journalism students' project "Crossmedia Newsrooms" on the web
IFRANewsplex and CCI Europe are supporters of the project "crossmedia newsrooms" carried out by a group of 19 online journalism students from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany. The aim of the project is to research, analyse and describe new models of newsroom management and organization in Germany. Read more ...

19.07.2007
Download complete coverage of the 6th Newsroom summit in Paris
Download the executive summaries of the event where 200 participants from around the world came together in Paris from 19 - 20 April 2007. Will Lewis from the Telegraph Media Group/UK, Michael Manness from Gannet/US, Henrik Pålsson from Ericsson and many more high profile speaker discussed audience focus, trends and projects in media convergent newsrooms and the management of change. On the web: http://www.newsplex.org/summit2007. Read more ...

17.07.2007
A short video about the new Daily Telegraph Newsroom in London/UK on YouTube
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14.06.2007
Cross-media: Students gain experience at IFRA
Some 40 students from three German universities visited the IFRANewsplex Training Centre in Darmstadt to learn about the development of the newspaper medium as well as about the latest IFRA activities – especially in the area of research and Newsplex. Read more ...

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