Among the international speakers at the seminar to be held on September 21, at the Dubai Press Club, will be Reiner Mittelbach, CEO Ifra, the world's leading organisation for newspaper and media publishing, who will talk about Ifra's new services to Arab publishers and the challenges facing newspaper publishers in fast changing media markets.
Marcus Wright, Senior Editor of Dow Jones Newswires will talk about the latest trends in business journalism, focusing on the need for enhanced editorial skills and on the business journalism training services offered by Dow Jones Newswires.
In later sessions other executives from Dow Jones Newswires, Simon Rodda, International Product Marketing Director and Tom Waite, Regional Sales Director, will give an overview of the newly-launched Arabic news service by Zawya Dow Jones. Lina Hamdan, head of the translation department at Al-Hayat international newspaper, Beirut, will talk about the challenges of translating real-time quality business stories from Zawya Dow Jones, using an advanced web-based editorial and delivery system supplied by KnowledgeView.
Duri Al Ajrami, Managing Director I-Gency. will talk about the future of online advertising in the Middle East. Other sessions will include speakers from Ifra on its work with Arab publishers for building an Arab regional publishing community linked to the global publishing industry, and its pioneering NewsPlex programme.
The afternoon session will be devoted to demonstrating a working pilot of a modern cross-media editorial workflow based on technologies from KnowledgeView and Adobe. The demonstrations will be held by KnowledgeView and GraphEast.
Dr. Ali Al-Assam, Managing Director of KnowledgeView, said "We aim to provide real value to publishers from the Dubai event, informing them of latest trends and allowing for valuable discussions on how publishers and media executives can maximize benefits from their operations.
"We are grateful to the Dubai Press Club for their help with holding such an important gathering, which we intend to be one of several in the Arab World for the next 12 months by KnowledgeView and its partners".
The full-day program will be followed by an early evening reception for media executives hosted by Dow Jones Newswires.
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KnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and offices in the Middle East. The company was founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems. KnowledgeView's customers include Independent News and Media, Guardian Media Group, News Corporation and the Washington Post. In the Middle East, KnowledgeView is a leading newspaper integrator providing consultancy as well as technology, acting as a marketing and technology bridge between Europe and the Arab World.
KnowledgeView's RAPID Browser is a powerful news management and editorial sharing system for automating acquisition, classification and enhancement of news and media content and creating packages for cross-media publishing, designed to streamline production and create additional revenues.
RAPID Browser has set the standard for the next generation of news management systems, with its ability to gather content from a wide variety of sources such as news agencies, correspondents' reports, RSS and Web harvested feeds, and the power it puts in the hands of users to define their own ways of filtering and acting on items that match their interests. By integrating RAPID Browser with Adobe publishing software and with third-party publishing systems, KnowledgeView provides integrated editorial and publishing systems for newspapers.
RAPID Archive, integrated with RAPID Browser and based on IxiaSoft's enterprise-class TEXTML Server, provides strategic rich-media archiving for publishers.
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