The heads of three of India's largest news publishers face up to journalism professor and former TV news anchor Nidhi Razdan in a WAN-Ifra virtual event next month.
The Indian Media Leaders eSummit, September 21-22 will bring together Bennett, Coleman & Co group executive chairman Sivakumar Sundaram, Malayala Manorama executive editor and director Jayant Mammen Mathew, and Express Group executive director Anant Goenka in a panel session to discuss new opportunities, cost control measures, management of human capital and other plans and strategies from a business sustainability perspective.
An associate professor of journalism at Harvard University in the US since June, Razdan (pictured) was primary anchor of NDTV's 24/7 news show Left, Right & Centre.
The day's programme (Monday September 21) begins with a keynote discussion between South China Morning Post chief executive Gary Liu and Quintillion Media co-founder Ritu Kapur, tackling SCMP's transformation story and pursuit of new opportunities.
A second session that day presents a 'fireside chat' on the future of advertising revenue (Vikram Sakhuja, Madison Media & OOH; and Rajeev Beotra, HT Media); Trui Lanckriet of Mediahaus in Belgium on data strategy; and advertising trends and business models in the COVID world from Nitin Chandalia.
Finally, Google's Anntao Diaz and Valentin Cornez will "live demo" data tools including News Consumer Insights, which provides personalised recommendations from Google Analytics data.
Tuesday's programme covers distributed newsrooms with WEF board member Ingeborg Volan (Dagens Næringsliv, Norway); a panel discussion on Women in News with Ritu Kapur (Quintillion Media, India), Dhanya Rajendran (The News Minute), and journalist Seema Chishti; and Stibo DX marketing vice president Jacob Gjørtz talks about trends in digital newsroom transformation.
Later, the focus turns to constructive journalism' with Ulirk Haagerup of Denmark's Constructive Institute; a discussion of the strategies that helped NYT to acquire digital subscribers; and a closing keynote on the Toronto Globe & Mail's digital transformation and "translating print value into digital" from publisher and chief executive Phillip Crawley.
A virtual Printing Summit follows on September 23-24, tackling COVID-19 issues including 'back to business', lean production, distribution challenges, a 'fireside chat' on cross-industry learning, connected manufacturing, digital transformation, e-commerce distribution, and newsprint demands and supply.
More details to follow or visit the Printing Summit website.
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