Successful Strategies for Media Houses
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In cooperation with 9th WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference · 12-13 March 2014, Dubai THE FUTURE STARTS TODAY SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES FOR MEDIA HOUSES GOLD PARTNERS SILVER PARTNERS SUPPORTING PARTNERS In cooperation with 9th WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference · 12-13 March 2014, Dubai Programme Day 1 – March 12th 14:30 Driving Newsroom Innovation with the Power of Your People “How to unleash newsroom innovation by tapping into the Offical opening talent of your staff”. Journalists at news desks and on the road are the people 10:00 Official opening of the conference that transform newsroom strategies into reality. They Welcome speech: breathe life into the vision, taking goals, milestones and H.R.H. Princess Rym Ali, Jordan metrics from flipcharts and excel spreadsheets into the real world. Without well-trained staff and an environment that 10:30 Welcome address from the region nurtures rather than stifles creativity, a newsroom transfor- Dhaen Shaeen, CEO of Publishing Sector, mation may never reach its full potential. Dubai Media Incorporated, Dubai, UAE Jonathan Halls, Adjunct Prof, George Washington University, USA Saleh Alhumaidan, Managing Director, Al-Yaum Media House Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and Chairman of 15:00 Focusing on the Local: Mantiqti, the the WAN-IFRA Middle East Committee region’s first quality hyperlocal newspaper Mohammad Abdullah, Managing Director, Media Mantiqti, the first “hyper local” free newspaper in Egypt Cluster – TECOM Investments, Dubai, UAE and the Middle East is distributed across Cairo’s vibrant downtown district – door to door to residents, at branded 10:50 Welcome address from WAN-IFRA stands in cafes and among local businesses ranging from Vincent Peyrègne, Chief Executive Officer, the Stock Exchange to medical doctors, lawyers, tourism WAN-IFRA, France companies and others. Learn more about the success of this newspaper and its unique editorial strategy 11:00 Coffee break Tarek Atia, Publisher, Mantiqti (My Neighborhood) newspaper 11:30 Conference keynote Visions for a different future The news business is NOT a dying business. To survive we 15:30 Coffee break have to rethink our business completely. Patrick Daniel, Editor-in-Chief, Singapore Press Holding, Suppliers session Singapore Moderator: Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA, Deputy CEO, Executive Director Competence Centre Newspaper 12:30 Lunch and visit Production in the exhibition area 16:00 The stage is yours ... Innovations in Newsrooms We welcome our suppliers partners to present their Moderator: Jonathan Halls, Adjunct Prof, latest innovations on stage. George Washington University, USA 18:00 Wrap up the day 14:00 Digital news in the age of the platform Like most modern news outlets, Springer is obsessed with having everyone in the company work without distinction between digital and print. Its latest initiative involves the definitive transformation of the venerable daily Die Welt into a multimedia news factory. Benjamin Gajkowski, Die Welt, Axel Springer, Germany In cooperation with 9th WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference · 12-13 March 2014, Dubai Programme Day 2 – March 13nd Innovations in Print Moderator: Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA, Deputy CEO, Executive Director Competence Centre Newspaper Keynote speech – Day 2 Production 10:00 Growing print with segmentation and right targeting 14:30 From single to double width – Devil is in the detail, and indeed, in customization! Print a success story continues readership can be grown significantly through segmenta- As print order and pages/copy increase, high speed double tion of the consumer, followed by appropriate customiza- width presses are inevitable to contain the high cost of tion of format, content and mode of reach. In this pres- production and still meet deadlines.But the transition from entation, we will share successful case examples on this single width to double width presses is not esay sailing.It re- topic, from the ABP group in English and regional language quires detailed study and selection of best configuration for dailies. a given situation and requires hard training for operators. DD Purkayastha, Managing Director and CEO, P K Philip, Chief General Manager, Works, ABP Pvt. Ltd., India Malayala Malamarama, Kerala, India 11:00 Coffee break 15:00 Flying the Press: Simulator-based training for newspaper printers Innovations in Business WAN-IFRA’s Research and Material Testing Centre in Moderator: Ed Capaldi, The Growth Catalyst, Dubai, UAE Chennai installed a web-offset press simulator from Sinapse in 2011 and since then have trained over 650 pressmen 11:30 Form, Function and Monetisation in across India. What is the training technology and how does Mobile and Tablet it benefit technical staff? A case study. Strong mobile and tablet strategy has never been more Anand Srinivasan, Research Engineer, WAN-IFRA, India important, and the options facing publishers never more confusing. This presentation brings clarity to this crucial 15:30 Success in Print: News UK’s area of development for any publisher – and a pathway innovative strategies for growth through the minefield of options. During a time when the focus of many publishers is digital Matt Kelly, Former Publisher Mirror Digital and development, News UK is determined to ensure that its Publishing Consultant, Cases i Associats, UK evolving business model keeps print very much at its heart. Rob Hedges, Sun Deputy Managing Editor, News UK 12:00 Powerful Strategies to turn your on-line reach into powerful business 16:00 Industrial inkjet – Mohammed Alharthi, Editor-in-Chief, Sayidaty Magazine – Bubble or innovation push for newspapers? The Saudi Research & Publishing Co. Digital printing has ben considered to offer the contrary of what newspaper production needs: high-speed and 12:30 Innovating and Winning with low-cost printing of large numbers of copies. But both the business models strategic orientation of newspapers and the efficiency of in- Have you ever been confronted with outdated business dustrial inkjet printing are continuing to develop. Suddenly models? Loss of market share? Poor revenue generation? former contradictions appear to match up. Poor margins? Fragmented strategies? If any of those prob- What can modern digital printing offer? What are the lems sounds familiar, you should not miss this presentation. niches of newspaper publishing that can be handled with Ed Capaldi, The Growth Catalyst, Dubai, UAE new production tools? How can coldset offset and inkjet work hand-in-hand to create new and exciting newspaper 13:00 Lunch and visit products? in the exhibition area Manfred Werfel, WAN-IFRA, Deputy CEO, Executive Director Competence Centre Newspaper Production In cooperation with 9th WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference · 12-13 March 2014, Dubai Offical opening H.R.H. PRINCESS RYM ALI Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali founded in 2007 the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), a non-profit institution whose aim is to establish an Arab center of excellence for journalism education with a Master’s program at its core and training-modules in parallel (www.jmi.edu.jo/en). She has also been a member of the Board of Com- missioners of the Royal Film Commission - Jordan since July 2005 (www.film.jo/en). Prior to marrying HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Princess Rym worked extensively for international broadcasters including CNN, where she began as a producer in 1998 and later worked as a Baghdad correspondent from 2001 until 2004. She had developed her portfolio working for the BBC, Dubai TV, Bloomberg TV, Radio Monte-Carlo Moyen-Orient and United Press International-UPI. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, Princess Rym Ali also holds a MPhil in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and a MA in English Literature from the Sorbonne. Princess Rym Ali received a prestigious Alumni Award from the Columbia University School of Journalism in April 2011. In July 2011, she was also awarded the “Best International Journalist” prize at the 32nd Ischia International Journalism Awards Ceremony, one of the most renowned journalistic awards in Italy. In September 2011, Princess Rym Ali received the French Knight of the Legion of Honor decoration from the French government. In October 2012, the Global Thinkers Forum awarded Princess Rym Ali the Excellence in Media Award. In November 2013, Princess Rym Ali received a PhD honoris causa from Coventry University – England, for her contribution to the field of Journalism and Media and as founder of the Jordan Media Institute. Dhaen Shaeen CEO of Publishing Sector, Dubai Media Incorporated, Dubai, UAE Current Editor-in-Chief of Al Bayan Daily Newspaper . CEO Dubai Media Incorporated Press. Headed Al-Bayan’s Sports Department; Supervised Cultural, Miscellaneous, Localities, Photography and Proofreading departments. Member of Emirates’ Writers Federation; Official in Charge of Public Relations during one of the Federation’s sessions. Member of The Arab Writers’ General Federation. Financial and Administrative Manager of Al-Bayan Press, Printing & Publishing Establishment. Jury Member of Skeikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Prize for Childhood Creations. Member of The National Ecological Strategy Project in the Education & Ecological Awareness Sector. Participating in a training workshop on “Internal Customers” for The Dubai Government Excellence Award. Participating in a press training course on human rights, Rabat, Morocco. Poet & Literary Critic with five publications in Arabic: 1. ”Silence-Inspiring Sign – A Poetic Collection (1990) 2. ”Unsellable Stuff “ – A Collection of Essays & Articles (1992) 3. ”Inscriptions on the Gates of Al-Napat” – Critical Articles (1995). 4. “I Pronounce Thy Names in My Dreams” – A Collections of Writings. 5. ”Out of Context” – A Collection of Articles on lifestyles and pubic culture. 6. ”Other Faces for Life” – Articles & Essays. 7. “Saaleek.com” 8. “What the Wind did not say” 9. “Outside the picture inside the frame” Participated in several cultural, literary and movie festivals, including Pizzaro Film Festival, Italy; The Mediterranean Film Festival of Pantelleria in Sicily, Italy; and The World Youth Festival in PyongYang, North Korea, 1989. Managing Editor for “Shoun Adabia”, a seasonal magazine published by Emirates Writers Federation.