The American Press Institute's latest project, Newspaper Next 2.0, means newspaper companies “will have to venture farther afield and become the indispensable guide to everything that anyone in their local community needs to know to live there,” The Poynter Institute's media analyst Rick Edmonds stated Monday.

The report, a sequel to the original 2006 Newspaper Next report, was published online last week, and states that despite the problems plaguing the news industry, from circulation declines to online revenues that can't make up for them, newspapers can survive, and even see “dizzying growth rates” j – but not without dramatic changes in the way they think, the strategies they adopt and the innovation processes they use.”

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Following the American Press Institute's release of its report Newspaper Next 2.0: Making the Leap Beyond 'Newspaper Companies,' the World Association of Newspapers will host the first-ever Newspaper Next event outside North America at the end of its UK Study Tour 2008.

Newspaper Next's Managing Director, Steve Gray from the American Press Institute, will present a day-long strategy session during the study tour's seminar in London at news agency Reuters.

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The dean at Northwestern University's journalism school, John Lavine, is being taken to task for his use of anonymous quotes in two introductory letters for the school's alumni magazine last year.

Last week, a column in The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper, called his use of an anonymous source into question. Following the column's publication, written by senior David Spett, a firestorm of media coverage has ensued over the journalism ethics practised by the dean, and on Tuesday 16 members of Medill School of Journalism's faculty released a statement saying that the “matter has become a crisis for the school.”

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The Gambia Press Union will launch a 1.2 million dalasi (€38,541) project to train journalists in field reporting, online journalism and Web mastering, with trainers from Denmark facilitating.

GPU President Madi M.K. Ceesay announced the project Friday at the opening of the first week-long training course, according to an article posted on AllAfrica Monday.

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An abandoned elementary school 90 minutes outside Seoul has been transformed into the new Citizen Journalism School by OhmyNews, AsiaMedia reported Tuesday.

The school will focus on teaching students about user-generated content and citizen journalism, and is designed to hold more than 60,000 citizen reporters.

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The Daily Mail's chairman is in talks with a UK senior government education adviser to sponsor an academy near the newspaper's office in Kensington, west London.

In the past, Jonathan Harmsworth (also known as the fourth Viscount Rothermere) ended plans to start five academies, “apparently because executives within the trust feared it would compromise the papers' ability to criticise the government,” the Guardian reported Saturday.

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The results of a survey taken by organisations that conduct webinars were released this week, with findings that indicate simple practices can be implemented during a webinar to improve their effectiveness.

The survey, conducted by Osterman Research for Citrix Systems, also noted that these practices can mean a much greater return for very little extra effort.

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Indian newspapers could be helped by more dialogue within the industry, as well as learning from outside industries, participants said at the final day of the International Newspaper Marketing Association's (INMA) first South Asian conference in New Delhi Friday, The Times of India reported.

“As an industry we do not discuss what advertisers expect from us. If we talk more and discuss such ideas at least once a year we can definitely improve,” said Ravi Dhariwal, president, INMA Asia division, and CEO (Publishing), The Times of India.

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The Newspaper Association of America has launched a blog targeting newspaper executives, aimed at sparking conversation about the future of industry.

Several industry observers including Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Ginocchio and technology forecaster Paul Saffo were invited to write essays about their vision of the future of newspapers. The blog also invites people to respond.

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Two new resources on free dailies are now available.

One is a study by Ingela Wadbring, “The Role of Free Dailies in a Segregated Society,” and the other is a thesis for the Copenhagen Business School by Marie Bakholdt Andersen and Christoffer Husted Rasmussen, “Det Danske Marked For Gratisaviser” (The Danish Market for Free Newspapers).

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