Apr 8, 2008
Dietmar Schantin is director of Newsplex initiative at IFRA. IFRA is a global association of newspaper publishers and Newsplex is a consulting operation intended to help the association members move to the digital world. Dietmar’s speciality is integrating online and print operations at newspapers, something he was very involved with at Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
Apr 8, 2008
Had a great discussion today with Dietmar Schantin, director of IFRA’s Newsplex. IFRA is a global association of newspaper publishers and Newsplex is a consulting operation intended to help the association members move to the digital world. Dietmar’s speciality is integrating online and print operations at newspapers, something he was very involved with at Britain’s
Apr 3, 2008
Angela Mackay, executive director of the Financial Times Asia Pacific, announced today that the Chinese-language ftchinese.com, which was launched in mid-2005, has now reached one million registered users. Users are not charged for using the website, but in the below video she hints at how the company plans to make money from the site. Other
Apr 2, 2008
Reiner Mittelbach, CEO of the newspaper industry organization Ifra has been promoting Ifrasearch a recently launched vertical search for newspapers. IFRA – motto: Empowering the news publishing industry – has created the search engine to allow newspaper-focussed people to look at trends, strategies and issues. UPDATE: I just found another recently launched news industry vertical
Apr 2, 2008
Six months after the 50 year old Hong Kong Standard moved from a paid to a free circulation model, the newspaper’s executive editor, Steve Shellum, told a conference that the strategy had brought a long awaited victory over the South China Morning Post. “We had always been number 2 to SCMP in terms of circulation
Apr 2, 2008
Will be dropping by IFRA’s Publish Asia 2008 conference in Macau over the next couple days and will liveblog on merit. Anyone else headed there? UPDATE: Further blogging on the conference by Mari Pascual who is posting to the IFRA Magazine Multiblog.
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
