Gao Qinsheng, mother of jailed Chinese journalist Shi Tao, addressing the 60th World Newspaper Congress of WAN, the 14th World Editors Forum, 4 June 2007. Her son, jailed Chinese journalist Shi Tao, had just been awarded the the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers. English translation here - http://www.wan-press .org/article14357.ht ml
South African president Thabo Mbeki addressing the 60th World Newspaper Congress of WAN, the 14th World Editors Forum, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 June 2007
Media pundits Dave Panos (CEO of Pluck), Rebecca Mackinnon (co-founder, Global Voices), Didier Pillet (director of information, Ouest-France) and Adam Pasick (Reuters virtual journalist Second Life) venture some predictions for the year ahead.
Christian Van Thillo of De Persgroep at the Digital News Affairs (DNA2008) conference in Brussels 3/3/08 during a talk about the new forms of journalism publishers need to adopt to survive. In this clip, he discusses forming partnerships with other publishers to protect traditional print revenue streams such as recruitment.
Dominique Vidal, MD Europe, Yahoo!, UK addressing the Le Web 3 conference in Paris 11 December 2006. Mr Vidal holds forth on the "fantastic opportunities" of user-generated content.
Professor Clyde Bentley from Missouri School of Journalism addresses Journalism.co.uk Readers' Revolution event at the Imperial College, London 4 December 2006
Russell Davies, Open Intelligence Agency, speaking at the Widgety Goodness conference in Brighton, United Kingdom 3/12/07. Mr Davies makes two very good points about how glossy magazine, aspirational style advertising does not yet have a space on the web (which is bad news for magazine publishers) and also that targeted advertising is just plain scary.
Jeff Jarvis, associate professor, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, talks to Journalism.co.uk about digital publishing. 5 February 2007
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