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Ms Little, the former chief executive officer and publisher of WPNI and now a special adviser for Guardian News & Media¹s expansion in the United States, will headline the conference, which takes the theme, ³The Digital

Revenue Gold Mine.²



There is still time to register for the conference: full details of the event can be found at http://www.wan-press.org/digital2008/home.php



Ms Little has recently joined Guardian News & Media as a special adviser to help the UK-based company expand its audience internationally. GNM created a dedicated US news site in October last year.



In her previous role at the Washington Post Company, Ms Little oversaw the news sites washingtonpost.com and newsweek.com, as well as the online magazine slate.com and other internet operations. Under Ms. Little, who

became publisher in 2004, washingtonpost.com became profitable for the first time. The site now has at least 10 million unique visitors per month and reported $114 million in revenue last year, an 11 percent increase over

2006. Ms Little remains an advisor to the company.



The annual World Digital Publishing Conference, organised by the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, brings together publishers, editors, business development and other senior newspaper executives to examine

revenue-making strategies, winning editorial solutions and resource management.



The conference runs consecutively with the World Readership Conference and Expo, which focuses on audience-building measures across publishing platforms.



Speakers for the Digital Conference include:



- Manual Mirat, the CEO of Prisacom in Spain, Matthew Buckland, General

Manager for Publishing and Social media for Media24.com/ Media 24/ Naspers

in South Africa, and Martha Stone, Director of the WAN Shaping the Future

of the Newspaper programme, in a session on digital revenue-making

innovations.



- Gary Clarke, Director of Business Development for Amazon Kindle, Eric

Scherer, Business Development Director for Agence France Presse¹s Olympics

coverage, and Hans Peter Brøndmo, CEO of US-based Plum Software, in a

session on digital content innovations.



- Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile Europe for Thomson Reuters, Frederik Oscarson,

CEO of Mobiento Mobile Marketing in Sweden and Jorma Harkonen, Director of

Bonnier¹s MTV3 mobile strategy in Finland, in a session on mobile content

and revenue innovations.



- Moritz Wuttke, the Shanghai-based CEO for Asia & China at Publicitas, who

will address ³what newspapers can learn from Google to increase online and

print revenue.²



- Frédéric Sitterlé, New Media Director for Le Figaro in France, who will

examine merger and acquisition strategies for the 21st century.



- And many more! Full details at

http://www.wan-press.org/digital2008/home.php



The Paris-based WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry,

defends and promotes press freedom and the professional and business

interests of newspapers world-wide. Representing 18,000 newspapers, its

membership includes 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies

and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and

11 regional and world-wide press groups.



Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, WAN, 7 rue Geoffroy

St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49

48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: lkilman@wan.asso.fr