Agora will support innovative internet entrepreneurs

12,5 thousand Euro in cash plus advertising campaign worth 25 thousand Euro – this is the main prize in Startup Fest – a competition for independent internet entrepreneurs organized by Agora. Read more

Is iPhone a panacea for newsmedia digital revenues?

Mark Challinor, director of mobile at the Daily Telegraph (UK), answers to the question: does the success of the iPhone represent the answer to future digital revenue streams for newsmedia companies? Read more

Hunting the elusive online business model in news

Do throw spaghetti to the wall! It’s just one piece of advice that prof. George Brock of the City University in London, a former Saturday editor of the Times, offers to news publishers. Read more

LePost.fr: How amateurs produce valuable journalism

Two weeks before the start of the INMA / OPA Outlook 2010 conference, Forum4Editors is here with the series of exlusive interviews. The speakers who will be presenting their ideas during the conference agreed to answer few questions about what they do best, and what, in their opinion, is the best strategy to develop the best relation with their readers.

First in the series is Benoît Raphaël, the Editor in Chief of LePost.fr, a subsidiary of “Le Monde”. He will be telling us about this new brand of Le Monde featuring user-generated content, videos, blogs, and more. Read more

Peter Vandermeersch: how newspapers can set a mobile strategy

The first step is a mental one, claims Peter Vandermeersch, an editor-in-chief of De Standaard, a Belgian daily newspaper. Read more

Mobile strategy: from mass to tailor-made advertising

“Mobile is going to be an advertising revenue-driven business as it is online,” believes Peter Vandermeersch, an editor-in-chief of De Standaard, a Belgian daily newspaper. Read more

Web Goes Mobile: seminar starts

The “Web Goes Mobile” seminar in Grimbergen (Belgium) has started today. The event is organised by MobileWeb.be and will be covered for forum4editors.com by Tom Corbett. Read more

Interview: Patrick van Waeyenberghe, de Persgroep

When online advertising revenue will overtake the printed one at a Belgian multi-media company de Persgroep? Read more

When newspapers go weekly, weeklies go monthly

75-years-old U.S. News & World Report is getting out of the newsmagazine business and going all digital (except of a monthly print edition). Read more

Wikipedia founder: recession to hit websites

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, believes the global economy is headed for a “pretty serious recession” that will hit websites that are heavily reliant on advertising. Read more