WEF Webinar to be held Tuesday at 14h00 GMT

Paris, 23 March 2009 For immediate release

WEF Webinar to be held Tuesday at 14h00 GMT

Exclusive Chat With John Yemma, Editor-in-chief of the Christian Science Monitor

The World Editors Forum is organising an online discussion with John Yemma, Editor-in-chief of the Christian Science Monitor, who will talk about managing the transition from a daily newspaper to an online news site with a weekly print edition. It was the first major American newspaper to adopt this approach.

The webinar, or online seminar, will be held on Tuesday, 24 March, from 14h00 to 15h00 GMT (London Time). Registration and webinar access can be found at http://www.wanindia2009.com

Mr Yemma will discuss how he is managing the newsroom through the transition, the Monitor¹s innovative workflow model, and the implementation of content management systems. Because of the interest in this approach, the Monitor and other new business models will be featured at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India, from 30 November to 3 December next.

The webinar technology is interactive and allows users to ask questions of Mr Yemma both before and during the webinar. It is a user friendly system, and is easily understandable for computer novices.

The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum are inviting everyone who registers for the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in India to participate, free of charge, in this and future webinars.

Full details of both the webinar and the Hyderabad events, the global meetings of the world¹s press, can be found at http//www.wanindia2009.com (Already registered for Hyderabad? Send an e-mail to John Burke, jburke@wan.asso.fr, for free webinar access).

The Pulitzer-prize winning, 100-year old Christian Science Monitor announced in October that it would end its daily print edition in April 2009 in favour of daily news via website and e-mail, with a weekly print edition.

The Paris-based World Editors Forum (http://www.worldeditorsforum.org ) is the organisation of the World Association of Newspapers that represents editors-in-chief and other senior news executives. WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, represents 18,000 newspapers; its membership includes 76 national newspaper associations, newspapers and newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and ten regional and world-wide press groups.

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