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The World Association of Newspapers¡¯ (WAN) World Newspaper Congress officially kicked off at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul on Sunday by holding roundtable discussions on two separate topics -- ¡°digital media¡± and ¡°freedom of the press.¡±
Participants talked about the need for newspapers in an era when new forms of media spring up every day. WAN¡¯s senior strategy advisor Jim Chisholm said in the ¡°digital media¡± discussion that newspapers can use mobile technology to spur a new renaissance in the newspaper industry, adding that one way to do that is to develop a mobile news service and take advantage of it. Samsung Electronics president Hwang Chang-gyu said that even if new forms of media emerge due to the mobile technology revolution, the power of conventional media that allow people to access profound information in its order of importance would not disappear.
WAN also issued a statement criticizing the kidnapping and murder of reporters around the world, saying that 38 reporters had been killed over six months since last November. 18 of them were killed in the Philippines and Iraq -- nine each -- and these nations were the ones where freedom of the press was threatened the most, according to the statement. The three-day WAN World Newspaper Congress will hold its opening ceremony at the COEX in Samseong-dong, Seoul on Monday.
(Shin Dong-heun, dhshin@chosun.com )
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