Pit Gottschalk studied over 50 newspaper newsrooms in Germany and prepared report helping media managers to compare their improvements with other players on the newspaper market. Now, he is rolling out the analysis to other countries. If you would like to be involved in the survey, you can contact CEO Office of Axel Springer in Germany.

Video recorded on INMA European Conference in Cascais, Portugal, 19-21 October 2011. Pit Gottschalk was interviewed by Artur Karda from 112MEDIA – consulting, training and outsourcing for media.

Publishers need cultural change, and only in that matter with new oxygen, new growth can be expected. Watch the storyline for media publishers in 2012, and make sure you read the summary of Earl Wilkinson’s speech from Cascais.

Video recorded on INMA European Conference in Cascais, Portugal, 19-21 October 2011. Earl Wilkinson was interviewed by Artur Karda from 112MEDIA — media consulting, training and outsourcing.

SweetDeal is a social buying online system started in 2010 by the group of European newspapers. In the interview below he tells how to develop such a business, is it possible to compete with market leader Groupon, what are lessons learned one year after launching the Sweet Deal project.

Video recorded on INMA European Conference in Cascais, Portugal, 19-21 October 2011. Marc Leimann was interviewed by Artur Karda from 112MEDIA — consulting, training and outsourcing for media.

Interview recorded on INMA European Conference in Cascais, Portugal, 19-21 October 2011. Ravi Dhariwal was interviewed by Artur Karda from 112MEDIA — consulting, training and outsourcing for media.

The golden tie is an award which has a long history and is given every year to one special person that made a significant difference for newsmedia industry and for the INMA Europe organization. The honoured recipients are always carefully selected by the ones who received the golden tie in earlier years.

Guillermo Schmitt receives the Golden Tie Award

Guillermo Schmitt who was awarded with the Golden Tie during INMA’s European Conference in Cascais, Portugal this year is the CEO, and editor-in-chief of Segodnya Multimedia. He has a long history in consulting and business management.

Bart de Proost, the Golden Tie recipient from 2010, said:

“This year the committee choose to give our Golden Tie to a humble person who operates most of the time from the shadow. (..) Based on evidence and experience. He ,or she, cannot live with discrimination in any kind it exists. He or she will defend the values of a free press , even if it could cost him his job. Yes , its a man. A man with a connection with Spain. (…)

He is not the person who plays the first violin, but he is the piano player. He is the man that leads the orchestra by being the companion and the coach.
The weaker players, if they have more potential will receive all the chances hey need to grow to solists and stars. (…)

In the second part of his career he moved to a European country in full development and became Inma Europe board member. Our recipient this year opened a huge market for Inma and brought new promising persons into our network. We will always call him our pioneer in Ukraine.”

The former recipients of the Award were:
2010: Bart de Proost, Francis Hirn
2009: Olivier Bonsart, Directeur Déléque, Rennes, France
2008: Mark Challinor, g8wave international, London, UK
2007: John Thomson, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
2006: Jan Damgaard, Ekstra Bladet, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005: Hans-Dieter Gärtner, Munich, Germany
2004: Angelo Gallo, Milano, Italy
2003: Herman Verwimp, De Financieel-Economische Tijd, Antwerp, Belgium
2002: Maeve O’Reilly, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
2001: Earl Wilkinson, INMA, Dallas, Texas, USA
2000: Inge Van Gaal, INMA, Antwerp, Belgium
1999: Erik Hansen, Oslo, Norway
1998: John Bilton, Bristol, United Kingdom
1997: Bo-Christer Lundquist, Stockholm, Sweden