Three WAN-Ifra study tours this and next month provide an opportunity to go ‘face to face’ with best practices in news publishing.

They allow to newspaper and other media company management to see ‘up close’ successful approaches for multimedia newsrooms, niche strategies for generating revenue, and new digital business models.

A Multimedia Newsroom Study Tour, organised by the World Editors Forum, will take chief editors and other newsroom executives to Washington, D.C., and New York City inlate September. It will take an in-depth look at editorial operations at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, HuffPost Live, Digital First’s Thunderdome, Press+, Facebook and others. 



The tour begins on Sunday, September 23 in Washington, and finishes in New York on September 28 in New York. WAN-Ifra says there is still time for last-minute reservations; full details can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/node/60705



In the US, publishers and new media start-ups work hand in glove. For example, the New York Times’ R&D labs hooked up with bit.ly owners Betaworks to found news.me (http://vimeo.com/20334925 ). 



WAN-Ifra's digital media team will visit both companies on a study tour to New York and Boston from October 8-12.

‘New media, new challenges, new business’ will examine new business models and technology for driving revenue growth, with meetings also confirmed with the Daily News, the Boston Globe, Guardian US, Next Issue Media, Wonderfactory, Nieman Journalism Lab, Forrester, Visual Revenue and Bloomberg Businessweek. 



Full details are at http://www.wan-ifra.org/tour_newmedia



In Europe, WAN-Ifra will take publishers and other news executives to London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Oslo, from October 22-26, for a study tour to The Economist, Monocle, the Guardian, Telegraaf Media Group, Verdens Gang, Dagbladet, Agora and others.

‘Strategies for new revenues’ will examine niche strategies for publishers. With the creation of special products, publishers target new audiences and profit from new income streams. The study tour will allow participants to examine how some leading European media houses go about it.



Full details can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/tour_revenues