DMG Media chief executive Kevin Beatty has joined a World Newspaper Congress session on new business models.

The consumer media company of the UK’s Daily Mail & General Trust – including the Daily Mail and Metro – has seen digital advertising growth offset lost print revenues for the first time.

Print titles continue to thrive in print while scoring amazing results on digital platforms. Digital advertising revenue growth offset the decline in print advertising revenues at the Mail and Mail on Sunday in the five months to the end of February.
MailOnline.com is one of the world’s largest newspaper websites, with more than 60 per cent of its total online audience outside of the UK.
More than 1200 delegates are expected at the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum, World Advertising Forum and Info Services Expo 2013 event in Bangkok from June 2-5.

 Beatty will speak on his company’s “audience-centric news business” in a session which also includes Ahmet Dalmanof Turkey’s Hurriyet Group and Guy Crevier, president of La Presse in Canada.
Other highlights of the Congress, organised by WAN-Ifra, include a session featuring Asia’s ‘new generation news publishers’ including Azrul Ananda (Jawa Pos, Indonesia), Jeongdo Hong (JoongAng Media Network, South Korea), Robin Hu (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong), Sandy Prieto (Philippine Daily Inquirer) and Supakorn Vejjajiva (Post Publishing, Thailand).
An inspirational session on innovation – featuring success stories from companies “doing things just a little bit differently” – will be complemented by a world update on innovations by Juan Senor and the Innovation International Media Consulting Group.

A session on paid content will offer a variety of concepts and lessons from implemented strategies and feature Geir Engen (Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association), Caspar de Bono (Financial Times), John Stackhouse (Globe and Mail, Canada) and WAN-Ifra publishing ands digital executive director Stig Nordqvist.

An update of the World Press Trends survey will be presented by WAN-Ifra chief executive Vincent Peyrgne, with regional updates from editors and publishers in Thailand, Singapore, Germany, Kenya and the UAE.

More details at http://www.wan-ifra.org/bangkok2013