DEBATE: The world's editors debate the benefits and disadvantages of integrated newsrooms

With Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene, Executive Director, Punch, Nigeria; Espen Egil Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, VG Multimedia; Roman Gallo (right), Director of Media Strategies, PPF Financial Group; Marcelo Rech, General Product Director, RBS Group, Brasil; Ed Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief, Globe and Mail, Canada  

ANALYSIS: Can newspapers do more with less? They can, especially if they change their New Media business model

Phil Stone, CEO Stone & Associates and former Managing Director, Reuters Media

Philip Stone has held a wide variety of management positions with news agencies for more than 30 years, ending his agency career at Reuters as its Managing Director for Reuters Media, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has spent most of his life selling various editorial services to newspapers.
Since leaving Reuters in 2002 he has run his own consultancy business, Stone & Associates, and he has been a partner in followthemedia.com, (http://www.followthemedia.com) a web site devoted to reporting on media affairs on both sides of the Atlantic, for which he writes a column three days a week. His emphasis is analyzing the US newspaper market because what happens there can often be expected to show up on the other side of the Atlantic, too.
Mr. Stone resides in Geneva, Switzerland with his wife, Seemah. His son Kevan lives in Orlando.

With Neil Benson, Editorial Director, Trinity Mirror Regionals Jane B. Singer is the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism and a professor at the University of Central Lancashire; she is on leave from her position as associate professor at the University of Iowa. A former print and digital journalist, she has been researching the transformation of newsrooms and news work since the mid-1990s.
 

IN-DEPTH: Video is not just video: it's a user experience

By Robb Montgomery, CEO Visual Editors

Robb Montgomery has worked as an editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune and has redesigned newspapers including The Examiner for San Francisco, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. He currently consults with editors in the Middle East, Asia, U.K., Europe and North America to improve their online multimedia reporting and produces video journalism training events in North America and Europe.