Internet pioneer Steve Crocker and author Jeff Jarvis have joined the programme for the World Newspaper Congress, which opens in Bangkok next week.

The duo are among those discussing the future of the internet and that of journalism at the congress, at which more than 1200 publishers, chief editors and other senior news media executives are already registered.

Steve Crocker will discuss issues including the future of the internet, internet security and media issues in the digital age, while Jarvis – author of ‘What Would Google Do?’ and ‘Public Parts’ – will discuss the impact of the new media economy on the way news is produced and monetised.



Other additions to the programme include Mario Calabresi, editor in chief of Italy's La Stampa, who will discuss innovative newsroom organisation, and Peter Kvarnstrom, president of BC Community Media at Glacier Media, which has made 40 newspaper and other titles interactive with augmented reality to increase engagement and advertising revenues.



Other speakers include:



- Kevin Beatty, chief executive of the UK’s DMG Media (which includes the Daily Mail and Metro);

- Robin Hu, chief executive of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong and formerly senior executive vice president at Singapore Press Holdings, where he headed the Chinese newspaper division;



- David Rowan, editor of Wired magazine, UK;

-  Robert Dickey, president of the community publishing division of Gannett, publisher of USA Today;



- Tobias Trevisan, managing director of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung;

- Javier Moreno Barber, editor of El País, who has taken the prestigious Spanish daily through significant economic and editorial change;



- Supakorn Vejjajiva, president and chief operating officef of Post Publishing, publisher of the Bangkok Post, which is about to launch its second daily, Post Today, a Thai-language business newspaper;



- Scott Lamb, editorial editor of Buzzfeed, a site which has received a vast amount of attention in recent months for its addictive and highly shareable content, and its mastery of the native advertising;



- Eduardo Sirotzky Melzer, chief executive of RBS Group, a leading Brazilian regional multimedia group;



- John Stackhouse, editor-in-chief of Canadian national newspaper, The Globe & Mail;



- Wong Chun Wai, executive director and group chief editor of The Star, the largest English daily in Malaysia;



- Guy Crevier, president of Canadian French-language newspaper, La Presse;
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- Johnny Ryan, chief innovation officer of The Irish Times.

The Congress, which takes the theme, ‘Innovate. Inspire. Interact’, focusses on news media strategy and business issues. The Editors Forum examines newsroom issues in the transformational age, while the Advertising Forum deals with organisation of sales departments, research, sales techniques and trends in media advertising.

The programme is complemented by an expo and numerous social events, gala dinners and lunches and are considered to be the premier opportunity to meet colleagues from around the world.

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