The WIN Summit profiles and celebrates stories from women media and business leaders who are breaking through glass ceilings, challenging traditional business models or innovating in news. Take part in a morning of keynotes and interactive panel discussions for inspiration, mentoring and networking. Join Summit speakers for lunch and continue discussion in a more personal setting.

More than 200 women from all spectrums of the media industry will take part, including senior female editors and journalists who are part of the regional and global Women in News community. This morning event and luncheon will equip and inspire.

Sports news is a major driver for media innovation, both in content and contribution and provides a solid platform for exploring new digital media and opportunities in immersive digital storytelling. The competitiveness attracts major sponsors and advertising and reaches large audience creating a need to open new channels. The large sports federations are seeking new alliances in order to find new business models, win negotiations of rights and access information. The panel will discuss the new framework and value chain facing the rules imposed by the digital platforms relating this to the Sports news initiative.

When last in South Africa, 10 years ago, WAN-IFRA launched the Declaration of Table Mountain, a continent-wide campaign for governments to repeal criminal defamation and ‘insult laws’. It was driven by the conviction that Africa urgently needed a strong, free and independent press to act as a watchdog over public institutions. The annual press freedom roundtable invites media from across the continent to assess the progress since 2007 and determine whether we are any closer to achieving this goal, and if not, what needs to be done to get us there.

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Leaders from different regions of the world share strategies to ensure the sustainability of their news organisations.

The oldest national daily in France has kept its head during the digital revolution. Founded in 1826, the Le Figaro Group now sees digital represent 35% of revenue and 60% of profit. Perhaps more startling is the fact that it is challenging giants Google and Facebook in France in terms of unique visitors. How has it managed this? Deputy CEO Jean-Luc Breysse will explain the group’s goals and road map.

Long term plans to change news publishers’ business models are under the microscope: including The New York Times 2020 project; Schibsted’s Next Gen of publishing products and Tony Haile’s search for industry answers via the new startup: Scroll. In part one of the session we will look at Haile’s project as Scroll is dedicated to “solving the problem of how to have sustainable, quality journalism on a free and open web.” The second speaker of this session, Torry Pedersen, will give an update on the status of Schibsted’s plan for the future.

Print circulation in India bucks the global trend with 4.87 percent growth over the past decade. Nevertheless, Indian publishers are preparing for the future when, one day, India will realign itself with the rest of the world.

The anti-establishment mood that is turning the world upside down has the news media in full self-examination mode, questioning its role and what’s broken in the understanding of society and readers’ needs. How do we fix this once and for all?

Following an established tradition, Innovation Media Consulting will release, for the 19th time, the annual report it compiles for WAN-IFRA. The day starts with WAN-IFRA world trends and data, and it ends with an invitation to the consulting firm to give its own analysis of the key industry trends.

Reuters TV app launched in 2015 as a response to the way in which video news consumption was evolving: “People were abandoning linear television for online video and online video consumption was becoming bifurcated between clips of video that are watched for seconds on Facebook, and long form entertainment that is binged (for hours) on Netflix” says Isaac Showman.

VGTV’s team of roughly 70 staff members produces breaking news video, entertainment programmes, documentaries, and runs Norwegian newspaper VG’s Snapchat Discover channel. There is definitely a tone to VGTV!

A review of the changing mix of revenue, including advances in digital paid content models and the rising role of programmatic advertising and creative ad units. Includes a look at how The Economist Group is deploying its data strategy.

Brought to you by WAN-IFRA Media Management Accelerator

With Ethical Journalism Network

A few years ago, when publishing companies began to understand that native advertising/branded content was a service they were best placed to offer to their advertising brands, some publishers started their own Content Studios. As in other areas of digital advertising, the objective was to combine creativity, measurement and a set of quality standards to a format gaining in popularity, but of course, still in the Wild West of novelty. Much has happened since, and Durban 2017 is a good time to evaluate progress.