IPTC 50^th Anniversary Symposium

News at a Crossroads – Navigating a Changing Landscape

28^th October 2015  in London (UK)

… was a great event. Thanks to all speakers, moderators and sponsors.

Other sources covered this event:

• CEPIC blog
• News by KUNA
• Adrian Michaels comments on Apple and Facebook as new news sources and mentions this event

About the event

IPTC is the global standards body of the news media – we provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem – and we are celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2015. The “News at a Crossroads” Symposium was the culminating event of our celebrations. 

Changes in technology, the popularity of social media, the prevalence of video, and other advances greatly affect how news is created, marketed and distributed. At this event, IPTC-invited experts shared predictions and outlooks about the most influential factors on the gathering, delivery and marketing of news today.

Categories of change were examined separately with presentations and a discussion, open to the floor, and in a fourth session brought together to examine the crossroads and see how their findings might benefit each other.

Full documentation of the event 

Legend: = presentation as PDF,  = video on YouTube, all videos are available in a YouTube playlist.

Opening by Stuart Myles, IPTC Chairman – 6 min

50 Years of IPTC by Stéphane Guérillot, IPTC director  – 13 min

1. Create News: journalism, crowd sourcing, social media, (big) data as source
   Speakers
   Alison Gow, Editor, Digital Innovation, Trinity Mirror Regionals (UK) – 8 min
   Simon Haydon, International Sports Editor, The Associated Press  (USA) – 8 min
   Poul Madsen, Executive Chief Editor, Ekstra Bladet (Denmark) – 8 min
   Rachel Shabi, multimedia free-lance journalist and author (UK)  9 min
   Moderator
   Andreas Gebhard, Director, Editorial Strategy and Product Management, Getty Images Inc (USA)
   Panel discussion – 44 min
   .
2. Market & Sell News: new markets and new products
   Speakers
   Jérôme Doncieux, Co-CEO, Relaxnews (France) – 9 min
   Adrian Michaels, Director, FirstWord Media (UK)  12 min
   Robin Pembrooke, General Manager News Products, Digital News BBC (UK)  16 min – transcript
   Moderator
   John Evans, Managing Director, Transtel Communications Ltd (UK)
   Panel discussion – 31 min
   .
3. Produce & Present News: gathering & aggregating content, distributing & presenting it
   Speakers
   Bill Kasdorf, Vice President and Principal Consultant, Apex Content Solutions (USA) – 23 min
   Evan Sandhaus,  Director Search, Archives, Semantics, New York Times (USA)  18 min
   Kim Svendsen, Director, Stibo Accelerator (Denmark)  16 min
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4. Joint Session of the Three Work Areas: “Navigating the Crossroads for Best News Industry Results”
   with speakers from the previous sessions –  19 min
   Moderator
   Stuart Myles, Director of Information Management at The Associated Press (USA) and Chairman of the Board of the IPTC

After the symposium attendees and speakers were invited to a gala dinner.