A chance to visit Singapore Press Holdings’ multimedia newsroom and interactive RazorTV web operation will come when WAN-Ifra’s Digital Media Asia 2011 is held in Singapore in November.

The three-day event (November 24-26) is being held at SPH’s Toa Payoh News Centre conference facility.

WAN-Ifra says Singapore's position as a global digital media hub be boosted by the event, entitled ‘Content monetisation on emerging digital media’. It takes place in the form of three one-day conferences – Online Media Asia on November 24, Mobile Media Asia on November 25, and Tablets/e-Reading Asia on November26.

Full details, including registration information, at www.wan-ifra.org/dma 

The conference will examine how cutting edge organisations are using the most advanced digital media platforms for profitably multipurpose content from newspapers, magazines, broadcasters or books. It will provide insights into the best practices in the developing multimedia world.

The release of Apple’s iPad and other tablets and how media companies are embracing these new devices, the emergence of pay-walls around newspaper websites in Asia and around the world or the consolidation of social media as a major trend affecting the news media business will be some of the key trends discussed in Singapore this year. 

Digital Media Asia 2011 is designed for publishers, CEOs, managing directors, IT directors, business development directors and heads of research from newspaper, magazine and book publishing companies as well as executives in charge of strategy and new business from any kind of media company or content producer.  

The first Asian Digital Media Asia Awards will also be presented during the conference. This new WAN-Ifra competition will honour Asia’s best media companies in online media, crossmedia, mobile media, online content, e-reader/tablet and social media. The call for entries closes on September30.

Awards registration information is at www.wan-ifra.org/adma