WAN-Ifra's World Printers Forum will host a webinar for its members on Wednesday (March 18 March) at 14:00 CET about newspaper production in the time of COVID-19.

Alice Wong, chief production editor at the South China Morning Post, and Silvio Da Giau, technical director at Athesis, a publishing house in Verona, Italy, will discuss the unprecedented events that have been unfolding during the past month.

Wong joined the South China Morning Post in 1996, and has spent the past two decades as an editor, primarily for the business section. Athesis publishes three local newspapers and owns two local TV stations, a radio station and book publisher Neri Pozza.

After their presentations the forum will be open for questions from participants.

Details and registration from the website

On Thursday, WAN-Ifra will follow up with a panel discussion by newsroom leaders:

COVID-19. Is your newsroom ready for sustained disruption?

Thursday 19 March 12:00 GMT / 13:00 CET / 08:00 EDT

REGISTER: https://waniframfp.clickmeeting.com/coronavirus-and-your-newsroom/register

Key newsroom leaders will discuss newsroom strategies on how to manage staff and news production at this extraordinary moment. Editors who have been at the front of the Coronavirus wave will share lessons and insights that go beyond encouraging your journalists to work from home. What should you be doing in anticipation of an extended disruption?

On the panel: Warren Fernandez, Editor in Chief, The Straits Times, Singapore

Brian Rhoads, Managing Editor, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong

Robyn Tomlin, Executive Editor, The News & Observer and the Durham Herald-Sun, USA

Chair: Dmitry Shishkin, Chief Content Officer, Culture Trip, UK

This webinar is free service to members of WAN-Ifra communities, but pre-registration is necessary.

Two more COVID-91 webinars - Ensuring safety of field reporters; and Ethics and standards of covering Covid-19 - are planned.