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Beyond 2009: Digital News Delivery Focuses on the Consumer

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Beyond 2009: Digital News Delivery Focuses on the Consumer

Paris, France and Darmstadt, Germany – 2009-07-16

Español Deutsch Français When it comes to digital news delivery, what lies beyond 2009?

Español Deutsch Français When it comes to digital news delivery, what lies beyond 2009?

It's likely to be new business models, new innovations and new responses to changing consumer behaviour - all of which will be examined at Beyond the Printed Word 2009, the 17th World Digital Publishing Conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on 5 and 6 November next.

As the flagship digital publishing event world-wide, Beyond 2009 will propose new ways, present the hottest ideas and the most valuable tools, and bring together the brightest minds in the digital publishing world. The evolving conference programme can be found at www.ifra.com/beyond.

The event will benefit from the recent merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the global organisation's of the world's press, which have come together to form the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. The new association represents 18,000 newspapers, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries.

Beyond 2009 is built around the consumer, with sessions focusing on research to improve usability and to measure success and loyalty: on innovation in mobile services, e-readers and other platforms; and on search, social networks, local content, and paid-for models.

Confirmed speakers include: Wolfgang Blau, Editor in Chief of Zeit Online in Germany; Sara Öhrvall, Head of Research and Development for the Bonnier Group in Sweden; Philippe Jannet, CEO of Le Monde Interactif in France; Reiner Mittelbach, co-CEO of WAN-IFRA; and Anders Stenbäck, Manager for Business Development of Helsingin Sanomat in Finland.

The conference moderator will be Ramón Salaverría, Chair of the Journalistic Projects Department and Multimedia Communication Laboratory (MMLab) at the University of Navarra in Spain.

An early registration discount is now available. For registration information, evolving conference details, and links to recent research on online media, please go to www.ifra.com/beyond.

The conference venue is the Hotel Skipper in the Barceloneta neighbourhood, easily accessible from the airport and only 50 meters from the city beaches and nightlife.

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world's newspapers and news publishers. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, 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.

Christiane Schmidt, Senior Programme Manager, WAN-IFRA, Washingtonplatz 1, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany. Tel.: +49 6151 733-771. Fax: +49 6151 733-960. Mobile: +49 172 9 88 24 44. E-Mail: christiane.schmidt@wan-ifra.org.

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