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?

The world's longest-published newspaper will become a totally-digital publication by end of year

Lloyd's List - the leading news, analysis and data source for the global shipping industry - is set to become a totally digital publication by 20th December 2013. The landmark move follows many months of research and preparation and is - first and foremost - designed to ensure that the title continues to evolve with customer demand which now overwhelmingly favours a digital product.

Clark Gilbert, President and CEO of the Deseret News Publishing Company and one of the newspaper industry's most innovative thinkers, has joined the programme for the Digital Media Latinoamérica conference, to be held on 30 and 31 October in Bogotá, Colombia.

The first anniversary of the Newsplex Asia convergent newsroom lab will be marked by the first OpenNews.Hack Asia 2013, a unique hackathon plus accelerator that aims to support media creation and innovation and open new ways for the public to consume and share news.

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has teamed up with Axel Springer, Storyful and CCI Europe for an international MediaHackDay in Berlin on October 5 and 6 to promote innovation and digital transformation in newspaper companies.