World Newspaper Congress to be held in March
09 Jan 2009
The World Newspaper Congress, an annual event of the prestigious international body, World Association of Newspapers (WAN) will be
held in Hyderabad between 22 March and 25 March.
Formed in 1948, the World Association of Newspapers represents 18,000 newspapers in five continents.
Pratap Pawar,the owner of Sakal, the Marathi daily represents the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on the WAN board.
"This is the first time that India is getting to host the WAN conference in the organisation's over 60 years' history," says Pawar. "The who's who of the world of newspaper publishing will be here - nearly 2,000 proprietors of the best of international dailies and 400 top editors will attend the meet," says Pawar.
Hyderabad scored over Delhi when the WAN team came on a recce to india to select a venue.
At the conference, publishers will discuss their problems and talk on the growth of multi-media. The Editors' Forum will focus on content. The annual WAN Golden Pen Freedom award for the year will be given out to Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi, editor-in-chief of Friday Times, for showing courage in the face of opposition and even threat to life.
A non-profit, non-government organisation - the objective of WAN is to defend press freedom and foster economic independence of newspapers.