Introduction

The World Editors Forum always tries to anticipate the most vibrant debates that count for editors-in-chief. Last year, we pinpointed content monetization as the first item on the editor to-do list.

In 2010 we believe that we are entering a new information ecosystem and that we will have to focus on new key elements of this:
-    News reading devices: it is not yet certain if tablets, e-readers and smart phones will be mass or niche products, but they will allow us to monetize news content per article or via new distribution methods. How will these new devices impact news reporting?
-    Link & share: newsrooms must embrace the new flow of information and adapt to fragmented audiences. They have to direct their readers elsewhere as a way to provide more comprehensive coverage.
-    Cooperation: news organisations will have to be prepared to act as partners, rather than just competitors. This is a huge shift in editors' mindsets and it will take time... but hopefully not too much if newspapers want to survive.

The consequence of these changes will be that a new generation of editors-in-chief will emerge. And it clearly appears in our third edition of the NEWSROOM BAROMETER, a very unique survey conducted with leading management consulting firm McKinsey&Company.

This new generation will know how to manage both the collective intelligence of a newsroom and the collective intelligence of bloggers, users and readers. Instead of one unique platform, they will have to pilot a minimum of four platforms - print, online, mobile, e-reader/tablet - and five storytelling styles - alerts, written articles, podcasts, video reports and social media buzz.

Another reason not to miss the Beirut Editors Forum from 7 to 10 June is our focus on exceptional social events with key Middle Eastern figures invited to join our breakfasts and lunches.

We also count on our Arab colleagues to introduce us to the "narghile & shisha culture". Amateurs, connoisseurs (and volunteers) can start to enjoy them from the first Editors Cocktail, on Monday 7 June at 5.30pm.

Bertrand Pecquerie,
World Editors Forum Director
bpecquerie@wan.asso.fr

14h30 - 17h30:
Round Tables

WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE INDEPENDENT ARAB PRESS?
The Annual Press Freedom Round Table

DIGITAL FUTURES 2010
The Annual Digital Media Round Table

WINNING STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING THE YOUNG - LATEST STRATEGIES
The Annual Young Reader Round Table



(the round tables are open to all participants and take place at the Hotel Phoenicia InterContinental)

17h30 - 18h45:
Editors Welcome Cocktail
'Editors meet Editors meet Editors...'
A networking event for all Editors participating in the Forum
Presentation of the 2010 World Editors Partnership Programme for editors from emerging countries
At the poolside of the Phoenicia Intercontinental Hotel

19h15:
Welcome Reception - at St John's Convent in Deir Al Kalaa
With the World Newspaper Congress

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
At the Colombian Coffee House of the Convention Centre (close to the entrance)

10h00 - 12h00:
Opening ceremony
(Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress)

Welcome Addresses By:


Nayla Tueni, Board Member, An-Nahar
Gavin O'Reilly, President, WAN-IFRA
Saad Hariri, President of the Council of Ministers, Lebanon

Presentation of the 2010 WAN-IFRA Golden Pen Of Freedom 

by Xavier Vidal-Folch, President, World Editors Forum, to Ahmad Zeid-Abadi, journalist, Iran

12h00
Opening of Info Services Expo 2010

12h15 - 13h00:
Exclusive Q & A session
WEF meets Saad Hariri, President of the Council of Ministers, Lebanon

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
At the Colombian Coffee House of the Convention Centre (close to the entrance)

13h00 - 14h00:
 Lunch

14h00 - 14h40:
World Trends in the Newspaper Industry: an update
By Timothy Balding, Director General, Global Affairs, WAN-IFRA
(Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress)

15h00 - 16h00
Exclusive Survey
The WEF - McKinsey & Company 2010 NEWSROOM BAROMETER
How editors-in-chief  foresee the future of their job and how journalism will evolve in the upcoming years. 33 key questions about newsroom strategies, new business models, editors' leadership and the future of news in the digital era. The 2010 survey is the third edition of the Newsroom
Barometer.

Presentation by Eric Hazan, Partner, McKinsey & Company

16h00 - 17h30:
First Session:
New ways to finance quality journalism: the other face of content monetization
Media organisations are struggling to monetize their content. Ultimately, the goal is to defend quality journalism, and to achieve this some pioneers are launching news websites with other business models: journalism funded by foundations or paid directly by the public. This session will update editors' knowledge on these new business models and others.

Keynote speech:
Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, ProPublica, USA

And with:
John Yemma, Editor-in-Chief, Christian Science Monitor, USA
Olav Bergo, Editorial advisor, A-pressen, Norway
David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us, and Knight News Challenge winner, USA

Moderator:
Patrice Schneider, Director of Development, Media Development Loan Fund, Switzerland

19h30:
Dinner and entertainment - Lebanese Night, party at Byblos
With the World Newspaper Congress

8h15 - 9h20:
Second editors breakfast
'WEF meets Arab editors'
Working breakfast with editors, columnists and senior news executives from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
At the Colombian Coffee House of the Convention Centre (close to the entrance)

9h30 - 10h45:
Panel 1
Multimedia newsrooms vs. pure online players: which model is the most sustainable?
Pure online news players have invented a new workflow and redefined the traditional newsroom organisation. They embrace social media more quickly and are more open to crowd-sourcing journalism. Does this mean that they should become a model for newspapers acting as multimedia organisations? A comparison between the two ways of organising newsrooms will help editors to re-envisage and re-engineer their own newspapers.

With:
Raju Narisetti, Managing Editor, Washington Post, USA
Wataru Sawamura, Foreign Editor, Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Benoît Raphael, Former Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, LePost.fr, France

Other panelists to be confirmed

10h45:
Coffee break

11h00 - 12h15:
Panel 2
How to break away from the "he said yesterday" journalism?
Newspaper content will dramatically change in the upcoming years. A British editor said a few years ago that newspapers were becoming "viewspapers" with more opinions and editorial pieces. But in fact, almost all articles and stories must be written differently because we can assume that readers already know the basic news. How can editors-in-chief adapt to this major shift?

With:
Marcus Brauchli, Editor-in-chief, Washington Post, USA
Sylvie Kauffmann, Editor-in-Chief, Le Monde, France (to be confirmed)
Abdel-Moniem Said, Chairman of the Board, Al-Ahram group, Egypt
Jeff Reifman, Founder, NewsCloud, USA

Other panelists to be confirmed

12h30 - 14h00:
Exclusive WEF lunch
WEF meets MP Hassan Fadlallah, chairman of the Parliament Media Committee and one of the most prominent Hezbollah leaders

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
At the Colombian Coffee House of the Convention Centre (close to the entrance)

14h00 - 15h15:
Second Session
Why (some) newspapers are unsubscribing to news agencies
It is not yet the norm but in almost all countries prominent regional newspapers have begun to unsubscribe to general news agencies. It can save a lot of money, but how can these newspapers provide the same level of service without the traditional news wires? How has this modified their workflow? WEF has asked editors to bear witness to this new challenge... and news agencies to respond.

Keynote speech:
Tom Curley, CEO, The Associated Press (AP), USA

Speakers:
Jérôme Doncieux, Co-CEO, Relaxnews, France
Yousif Albinkhalil, Head of strategy, Zajil Press, Kingdom of Bahrain
Malte von Trotha, President & CEO, German Press Agency dpa, Germany

Other speakers to be announced

15h15:
Coffee break

15h30 - 17h30:
The new content platforms: a breakthrough year?
The new surge in sales of electronic readers for books, notably 'tablets', and the multiplication of mobile devices with easy and comfortable access to news sites, has given a new lease of life to the idea that wireless platforms may yet take a central role in news publishing. This session examines current newspaper experiments in publishing on such devices and takes a whirlwind tour of what's currently on the market.
(Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress)

Moderation and presentation: Stig Nordqvist, Executive Director, Emerging Digital Platforms and Business Development, WAN-IFRA
Alfredo Triviño, Director of Creative Projects, News International, United Kingdom

Other speakers to be announced

Evening free

8h15 - 9h15:
Panel 3
Is journalism going green?
Newspapers' departments focused on environmental issues, global warming and sustainable development are gaining in importance. Readers also want more stories on these themes, which are taking an increasingly high place on the global agenda. But in fact, all newspaper sections are becoming green: economy, politics, even sports and leisure... This trend suggests a need to develop new skills and new ways to tell stories.

With:
Ricardo Gandour, Director and Executive Editor, O Estado de S. Paulo Group, Brazil
Laurie Goering, Climate Change Editor, AlertNet, Thomson-Reuters Foundation, USA-UK

Other speakers to be announced

9h20 - 10h30:
Third Session with The Poynter Institute
What's Next For New media training?



It has been ten years since newspapers started to spend money on training journalists for new media and new storytelling styles. But is this money being well spent? Are the training sessions still valid after six or nine months? Are journalists actually thinking differently after hours and hours of training? The goal of this session is to look at what is being done right and what is being done wrong in training for the new information ecosystem. And how to maximize training resources.

With:
Tarek Atia, Media Training Manager, Media Development Programme, Egypt
Eric Glover, E-consulting for Editors project, World Editors Forum / WAN-IFRA, France
Howard Finberg, Director, Interactive Learning & News University, Poynter Institute, USA
Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), USA

Other speakers to be announced

10h30:
Coffee break

10h45 - 12h00:
2010 Global Report on Innovations in Newspapers by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group
This year's report will include best practices, new trends and successful cases about multimedia newsroom integration, news story telling experiences in social media, mobile internet formulas, best readers club marketing cases, integrated sales operations, new digital narratives, new multimedia strategies for family-owned newspaper companies, the new generation of news websites...


(Joint session with the World Newspaper Congress)

12h00 - 12h30
Word Editors Forum Annual General Meeting
Annual report and election of new Board members for the World Editors Forum, the organisation for Editors-in-Chief within WAN-IFRA (2009 - 2010).

Meeting in the Editors Forum hall (open to all participants)

12h35 - 13h50:
Exclusive WEF lunch
"WEF meets Alexander Lebedev, the new owner of The Independent"

Attendance limited to pre-registered participants.
At the Colombian Coffee House of the Convention Centre (close to the entrance)

14h00 - 15h30:
Fourth session
Using crowd-sourcing in hyperlocal news
Ultimately, newspapers will not only interact with readers and users, they will develop new forms of journalism that take advantage of their readers' knowledge via methods such as crowd-sourcing. This can produce both good and bad results... And this is why we have asked editors-in-chief who have jumped into the hyperlocal news world to tell us how to deal both with professional journalists and citizens (never say amateurs!).

With:
Bart Brouwers, Managing Editor for hyperlocal Online Media, Telegraaf Media Group, The Netherlands
Martha Gleich, Internet Director, Grupo RBS, Brazil
Guy Berger, Founder of "The news is coming" project, and Knight News Challenge winner, South Africa
Jaroslaw Tokarczyk, President of the Board, Gazeta Olsztynska, Poland

Other speakers to be announced

15h30 - 17h00 :
Final Workshops
Our news and Google News: how can we cooperate?
Is it time for a cease-fire and a period of cooperation? In 2009, Google made some constructive proposals to newspaper companies and the relationship has evolved. Google isn't saying "it's up to you to develop your brand and your revenue streams", rather, "we can help you, and our users need quality journalism. Let's talk about it". Can we go beyond rhetoric and find a win-win deal in 2010?

Join us for a hands-on, instructional session about ways media organisations can build online audiences and connect with readers. Some of the topics covered will include:
- best practices for making content (including subscription content) discoverable through web search
- new formats for presenting articles, such as Fast Flip and Living Stories
- ways to tap into citizen-captured news video through YouTube Direct
- methods for using Google Maps to improve storytelling.

With:
Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager, Google News, Google, USA
Steve Grove, Head of News, YouTube, USA

Other workshop's leaders to be announced.

19h30:
Gala dinner and entertainment - at Beiteddine Palace
With the World Newspaper Congress