Those who advocate the abandonment of print for a digital-only world may want to look at the speaker roster for World Association of Newspapers' forthcoming Power of Print conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, on 27 and 28 May 2009. Leading industry figures will assert that publishing success comes from developing the print side, not abandoning it. The programme includes presenters from companies on five continents, including South Africa's Media24 (Fergus Sampson, CEO of emerging markets), News International, Axel Springer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Arizona Republic, MediaNews Group, Sydney Morning Herald, Gulf News, Moscow Times, JoongAng Ilbo and many more. Full details are available at www.wan-press.org/powerofprint2009/.
