Research - Shaping the Future of News publishing
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Automation, cutting costs and creating new revenues continue to be the most important current trends in newspaper production, though increasingly also the modernisation of existing production equipment in order to postpone investments in new equipment. -
World Press Trends, the primary and most authoritative source of data on the newspaper industry worldwide, published annually since 1989, is now available in a new interactive format: the World Press Trends Database. -
Trends in Newsrooms is the annual review from the World Editors Forum of best practices in major newsrooms, along with innovations in the field of journalism. The comprehensive report is largely inspired by – as well as based on – our daily online publication, the Editors Weblog, which tracks global developments in the news industry.
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Research - Shaping the Future of News publishing
One of WAN-IFRA’s most important activities is research in all areas of newspaper production, digital media development, media business, advertising, organisation and strategy. WAN-IFRA Research goes under the brand name of Shaping the Future of News publishing (SFN). Research projects are also being conducted in the developing world under the name of “Media Development”.
The research focuses on identifying, analysing and publishing important breakthroughs and opportunities that can benefit newspapers all over the world, and help them solve problems and manage new tasks. WAN-IFRA provides members with a library of case studies and business ideas, and a wealth of other vital information for all those who need to follow press industry trends.
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WAN-IFRA Research reports have strategic, technical or business focus – and among the titles you find both reports resulting from in depth research projects as well as lighter trend reports with case studies. WAN-IFRA Research encompasses known brands such as Shaping the Future of the Newspaper (SFN) and World Press Trends (WPT). The reports are published at irregular intervals in English, French and German, and selected reports in Spanish and other languages. -
The Materials Management Database project was launched in 2000 by the WAN-IFRA Material Management Committee as a spinoff of the Newsprint and Newsink Guide. Today it is used by printers, pressroom foremen and technical management as an information source for facts and advice for dealing with the materials used in producing newspapers.
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World Press Trends, the primary and most authoritative source of data on the newspaper industry worldwide, published annually since 1989, is now available in a new interactive format: the World Press Trends Database.
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Contact information
Manfred Werfel
Deputy CEO, Executive Director Competence Centre Newspaper Production | WAN-IFRA | Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: ++49-6151-733763
E-Mail: manfred.werfel@wan-ifra.org
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The World Editors Forum has drawn together the leading arguments for open journalism -- supplementing original reporting with the vast resources of the web -- and collected key examples in a new report that offers an overview of a wide variety of approaches for newsrooms everywhere. -
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WAN-IFRA's Competence Centre Emerging Digital Platforms and Business Development has developed a reputation of being at the forefront of driving research and development in cutting-edge technologies and strategies for this booming sector.