The Newsroom Barometer aims to provide a better understanding of the changes in newsrooms through the eyes of editors-in-chief and senior news executives.
Senior editors wishing to participate in the online survey, which tracks attitudes about the future of media and editorial strategies, should send their requests by email to Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the World Editors Forum, at (including name, title, newspaper name and country).
The Barometer is being conducted in eight languages to expand its reach beyond the four languages that were provided last year (English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Japanese).
The 2008 poll results will be published in the next Trends in Newsroom report (www.trends-in-newsrooms.org) and presented by John Zogby, president of Zogby International, at the 15th World Editors Forum to be held in Göteborg, Sweden, 1 – 4 June 2008 (www.wansweden2008.com).
The first Newsroom Barometer, released last year, found the vast majority of newspaper editors world-wide are optimistic about the future of their newspapers. Full results can be found at www.wan-press.org/wef/articles.php?id=26.
WAN this week also published the report "Investing in Newspapers" from the WAN Shaping the Future of the Newspaper (SFN) project. It examines the pressures on newspaper stock prices in the US States and offers strategies and solutions for newspaper companies everywhere to avoid the pitfalls that lead to declining valuations.
One of seven annual SFN reports produced exclusively for WAN members (www.wan-press.org/membership), the report includes recommendations from investment analysts on how to improve the value of public newspaper companies. An executive summary is available without charge at www.wan-press.org/article16373.html. More on the project can be found at www.futureofthenewspaper.com.
• The Paris-based World Editors Forum (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 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and 11 regional and world-wide press groups.
