Last week I was in Vienna reporting on the World Editors Forum. Here is a links round-up of coverage from the three day conference:
News
NYT.com: ‘incredibly surprising’ growth in unique users
Knight News Challenge to run three times a year
Nova24 editor: The situation for Italian newspapers ‘is tragic’
Global circulation falls as readers become ‘promiscuous’
WEF calls for pressure on Eritrea to release journalists
Blog
‘Many journalists are slaves to a CMS – think beyond that’ (with audio)
News outlets need to produce ‘caviar content’
Publishers share paywall strategies and lessons learnt (with audio)
Zeit Online’s Wolfgang Blau on not being ‘locked into an app’ (with audio)
Ten lessons on news app creation from Mario Garcia
‘Newspapers need to work out what makes them unique and invest in it’
Panellists share advice on how to build communities
Jim Brady of Journal Register Company talks open newsrooms (with audio)
Why Der Spiegel and the Hindu used WikiLeaks as a source
Journalists must become more aggressive, says Daniel Domscheit-Berg (with audio)
‘News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world’
‘Publishers need to focus on quality journalism on all platforms’
Extra audio
Jim Roberts of the New York Times discusses the Times’ digital subscriptions model
Jacob Mathew, president of WAN IFRA, talks about the importance of self-regulation for progression