Welcome to IFRA Newsplex

IFRANewsplex is the international competence center for enabling newsrooms for the future.

The IFRANewsplex team provides advisory and support services for developing and implementing media integrated product and newsroom strategies with the goal to increase the value, quality and performance of the news operation in a constantly changing media environment.

The services cover strategy definition, product and process benchmarking, executive study tours, project and change management, and a comprehensive talent management programme for journalistic and management skills for both analogue and digital media.

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06.05.2008
The future of newsrooms is integrated, claims editors survey
More than three quarters of newspaper editors believe that integrated newsrooms will be the norm for newspaper production in the next five years, a global survey has claimed. Eighty-six per cent of respondents to the Newsroom Barometer 2008 survey agreed that multimedia newsrooms - where digital and print productions run as one process - would dominate in the short term.
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09.04.2008
Dietmar Schantin on Newspapers’ New Channels
Former New York Times and International Herald Tribune correspondent Thomas Crampton, who now follows media strategy and technology closely, recently interviewed IFRA Newsplex Director Dietmar Schantin about the many opportunities today's newsrooms have to distribute their content on different media platforms. Access blog Read more ...

07.04.2008
WELT Group journalists in cross media training
In early summer 2006, Axel Springer CEO Dr. Mathias Döpfner shocked many of his staff, and most of media-Germany, by declaring that from now on it was “Online first”. Soon after, IFRA Newsplex was asked to set up workshops to train over 200 journalists from the giant publisher’s WELT Group, in the art of cross media production. Read more ...

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