Trends in Newsrooms to be Examined at World Editors Forum: First there was the trend to compact newspapers, and then an explosion of new titles to compete with free papers and attract young readers. But what will be the defining newsroom trends in 2005?
Among the topics to be examined at the [12th World Editors Forum, to be held in Seoul, Korea, from 29 May to 1 June], will be:
- The rise of the "citizen journalist."
- The risks and challenges posed by RSS (Real Simple Syndication) and news aggregators such as Google News and Google Alerts, in which general and personalised news is provided by machines, not editors.
- An audit of changing formats. The rush to compact newspapers is well documented, but what is less clear are the results of the latest format and design changes.
