First look at the DIS2019 agenda

The FIPP Management Board appointed four new members at its last meeting on 27 March 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Appointed were Helen O’Donnell of BBC Studios' TalentWorks; Jonathan Wright of Dow Jones; Nikolay Malyarov of PressReader; and Nicola Murphy of The River Group.

The first ever FIPP Insider events to take place in the USA take place in Washington DC on 29 April and in New York on 1 May. 

Berlin, 25 March 2019: The 2019-2020 edition of the Innovation in Media World Report has been launched today at DIS2019 in Berlin. 

FIPP and VDZ’s Digital Innovators’ Summit 2019 takes place Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 in Berlin. If you were unable to make it to Berlin, here are some ways you can follow news from there.

New digital printing technology developed by Canon in Europe can now enable publishers to use data to produce the same personalised functionality to printed products that we have become used to in online publishing. Now it is possible to marry the emotional impact of print with variable data at industrial speeds.

Here, PressReader’s chief content officer, Nikolay Malyarov, talks to us about the media dating game: how publishers can attract more readers by placing an audience-centric focus at the heart of their distribution strategy. 

Statista’s Digital Market Outlook estimates that the UK ePublishing market was worth USD$1.3 billion in 2018, with that expected to grow to $1.6 billion by 2023. 

In November 2018, we co-hosted an Insider event with FIPP in Argentina and Chile about the role and value of digital editions. Given the Latin American venue, I decided to use a local coming-of-age tradition - a quinceañero -  the 15th birthday milestone when a girl transitions from a child into a young woman in the community.