Those joining the Women in News Summit are invited to join a pre-Summit lunch.

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The Facebook Journalism Project is committed to strengthening communities by connecting people with meaningful journalism. Local newspapers play a vital role in providing their communities with authentic, reliable news and information. In this session, Facebook, the National Council for the Training of Journalists and Caxton, South Africa’s leader in community news, will discuss the progress of the Community News Project to hire and train 82 community news reporters and embed them in local newsrooms as well as the need to build other solutions for different business models in different countries, including audience and video accelerators.

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What metrics are driving reader revenue strategies? What underlying trends are shaping local news challenges? How is trust impacting news media? Those are just a few of the questions that World Press Trends is addressing this year in its global survey.

Get insight into the latest projects of the enviably well-funded newsroom of The Washington Post. At the other end of the scale, newsrooms are struggling, soo too reputations and life for journalists is getting rougher. In this environment, who wants to be a journalist? How do you attract and keep qualified, diverse and resilient staff?

Chartbeat’s Data Science Chief, Josh Schwartz, offers new research into global audience and traffic patterns to identify new year-on-year trends. With dramatic changes in reader behavior, the analysis looks closely at engagement and loyalty trends by platform, experience, and device, which have strategic implications for news publishers.

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Streaming services like Netflix will need a lot of content in the future and they are looking for projects from third-parties. Opportunity arises for media companies with original stories that can be repurposed as base screenplays for shows. How does this new world work? We will ask Camila Jimenez Villa, who, at Univision, was the Executive Producer for the Netflix programmes El Chapo (seasons 1-3), Murder Mountain, Tijuana and “Who killed Malcom X”.

At this workshop, Doug Smith and Stan Wischnowski will describe the results achieved in the U.S. table stakes programs as well as provide an overview of the 7 core table stakes, the methodology of performance-driven change, and how the program works. Doug and Stan are both looking forward to exploring with participants how the Table Stakes Europe program can help participants move forward with their most important challenges.

Most news organisations recognise they need the capacity to innovate and keep their organisation relevant. But does innovation actually make a meaningful difference to performance? What levers do you need to pull to effect the culture change needed to drive innovation?
This session will address these questions by highlighting innovation processes and role models. It will also help you determine the resources needed to oxygenate your newsroom and organisation.

A discussion about the Google News Initiative and Google's role in the news ecosystem