A group of leading global press freedom and media organisations have written an open letter to Queen Elizabeth II asking her to reject a proposed Royal Charter that would impose repressive statutory controls on the British press.

The World Editors Forum will take a group of editors from around the world to visit both traditional and new media organisations in New York and Washington, D.C., next month, to see how leading news companies are responding to the disruptive changes they face today.

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Fresh from a big tour of European publishers, media analyst and author Ken Doctor has joined the programme for the upcoming Digital Media Latinoamérica, a new event that is shaping up to be the region's premier digital publishing conference.

Encouraging readers to post online comments allows news media to connect with audiences, but the comments are too often uncivil, hateful, obscene or downright insulting. Moderating online conversations is an enormous task for news media. A new guide can help.

The USA TODAY Sports Media Group and CineSport, a leading online producer and syndicator of original sports video programming, announced today that they have entered into a content and technology partnership in which CineSport will provide its industry-leading video technology platform--the VaMP video platform--and create custom sports video content for properties within the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.

The World Publishing Expo opened in Berlin on Monday with a frank discussion on the future of news media by two industry leaders – Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and Guardian CEO Andrew Miller – and a demonstration of an industry innovation: a "hack day" to re-imagine and re-think newspaper archives.

Newspaper executives from five countries were elected Sunday to the Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) during the organisation's Annual General Meeting in Berlin, Germany.

Following recent attacks on press freedom in the United States, France, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has called on all governments to recognise that freedom of the press is essential to good governance and indispensible to democratic society.

More than 8,000 visitors and 300 exhibitors are expected in Berlin next week for the three-day World Publishing Expo, the largest global trade exhibition for the news publishing and media industry that will include some of the most influential names in the industry.

Do traditional print readers want their news on tablets? How can publishers benefit from the mobile ad explosion? And how can they take advantage of consumer multi-media practices – print in the morning, smartphone while commuting, and tablet in the evening?