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Save the Date for the 2nd Annual Shaping the Future of Media Conference!

Preparations have begun for this year’s Shaping the Future of Media conference, scheduled for 23 April 2013. The conference, titled “Understanding Disruption and how it Drives Innovation in the Media Sector”, aims to bring together media experts, key stakeholders, and politicians to examine how media consumption trends, technological innovation, funding content creation and business development impact the future of media.

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Funding journalism in Europe – a timely debate kicked-off by the Future Media Lab

Last week the German media market witnessed the announcement that two major national newspaper titles will close. This reopened a debate about how to fund quality journalism in the future, when the reader is not the one and only revenue source for the press. Exactly this question was addressed three weeks ago at the Future Media Lab. conference in Ghent, titled “creative funding for creative media”

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Print Media in Times of Change

The Print Media Group is a network of players in the print media chain who meet regularly to discuss common interests, share best practices and collaborate on common policy issues. Intergraf is the current chair of the group with 9 other member associations, including EMMA.

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"Creative Funding for Creative Media" conference brings together leaders in innovative media funding

On November 6 and 7, the Future Media Lab. hosted the first European conference on innovative media funding in Ghent, Belgium. The event, which was part of the annual iMinds conference “Creative Media Days”, brought together leading experts in creative media funding approaches with journalists and publishing representatives. The discussions prompted a call for new forms of cooperation between donor organizations and media companies and a rethink of the way journalism is financed and published. There was also recognition of the need for journalists and publishers to effectively interact with their “communities” of readers.