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The secrets of the world’s highest read daily newspaper – with a certified

print audience of an astonishing 54.5 million – will be among the

fascinating ’local’ stories to be told as the world’s press gathers for

its summit meetings in India in December.



Dainik Jagran, which tops the newspaper planet’s readership league, is

only one example of a newspaper industry which continues to grow in leaps

and bounds.



Developing literacy and wealth are part but far from all the story: Great

credit needs also to be given to Indian newspaper professionals, who are

re-inventing the newspaper to keep it vibrant and compelling in the

digital age.



Their strategies will be examined in depth when the World Newspaper

Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2009 come to

Hyderabad, India, from 30 November to 3 December next.



Although broadband and mobile are booming in India, print newspapers are

growing right along with them. The country has more daily newspapers than

any other nation and leads in paid-for daily circulation, surpassing China

for the first time in 2008. Twenty of the world’s 100 largest newspapers

are Indian. Newspaper circulation rose a further 8 percent last year.



Participants a t the Congress, Forum and Expo, the annual summit meetings

of the world’s press, will hear from the publishers and editors of some of

India’s most innovative companies, including: Mahendra Mohan Gupta,

Chairman/Managing Director and Managing Editor, and Sanjay Gupta, CEO and

Editor-in-Chief, of Jagran Prakashan (Dainik Jagran); Ravi Dhariwal, CEO

for Publishing of Bennett, Coleman & Co. (Times Group); Jaideep Bose,

Editor-in-chief, of the Times of India; Tariq Ansari, Managing Director of

Mid-Day Infomedia; Harinder Baweja, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka; Aroon

Purie, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of India Today; and many others.



Full details of the presentations and other information can be found at

http://www.wanindia2009.com



More than 1,500 publishers, chief editors, CEOs, managing directors and

other senior newspaper executives are expected in Hyderabad following last

year’s record gathering in Göteborg, Sweden.



In addition to the Indian presenters, WAN-IFRA is bringing international

newspaper industry leaders to speak at the events, the global summit

meetings of the world’s press. They include:



- Robert Thomson, Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal;



- Andreas Wiele, President of BILD, Europe’s largest newspaper;



- Olivier Fleurot, the CEO of Publicis Events Worldwide and its public

relations and corporate communications arm, PRCC – and former CEO of the

Financial Times Group;



-Terry Horne, Publisher and President, The Orange County Register, United

States;



-Martim Figueiredo, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, 'i' daily newspaper,

Portugal;



- Per Bowallius, President GISAB, Mitt i, the Swedish free weekly

newspaper publisher;



- Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-chief, The Guardian, United Kingdom;



- Walter de Mattos, Editor-in-chief, Lance, Brazil;



- Ferial Haffajee, Editor-in-Chief, Citypress, South Africa;



- Steve Engelberg, Managing Editor, Propublica.org, United States;



-Plus many more



The events will also feature the 2009 Global Report on Innovations in

Newspapers by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group, and the

annual WAN-IFRA update on World Press Trends.



Full details, including the programmes for business sessions and social

events, registration and other information can be found at

http://www.wanindia2009.com



WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with

subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global

organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents

more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000

companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the

merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and

service organisation for the news publishing industry.