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Dean Roper

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First name: Dean
Last name: Roper
Phone number: ++49-69-240063-261
Short Bio: As Director of Insights of WAN-IFRA, he is responsible for coordinating all activities related to the organisation's array of publications, including WAN-IFRA's WAN-IFRA Reports.

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Job title: Director of Insights, Editor-in-Chief
Company name: WAN-IFRA
Company type - Listed: Organisation
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Member for: 12 years 40 weeks

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Michael Golden steps up to WAN-IFRA Presidency

Despite growing up in an internationally acclaimed newspaper family, Michael Golden thought he wanted to be a teacher. It turned out that teaching didn’t quite quench his thirst – that newspaper DNA was undeniable. Today, some 40 years into his news media career, the vice chairman of the board of The New York Times Company starts a new chapter as President of WAN-IFRA, stepping up from First Vice President to succeed Tomas Brunegård.

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Dean Roper

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2017-06-08 15:11

How Schibsted Media Group makes disruption seem hip

Schibsted Media Group in Scandinavia is often held up as THE shining example of a legacy news media group that seems to have gotten this whole "transformation" thing down pat. We are looking closely behind the scenes at the Schibsted phenomenon for an upcoming report. Here is a brief glimpse at what we have found.

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Dean Roper

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2017-05-18 13:31

New WAN-IFRA Report: Best Practice in Digital Media

Innovation knows no boundaries, and that has never been more evident than in this year’s World Digital Media Awards winners. More importantly, it reaffirms that publishers can glean best practice from all corners of the globe: Oman, South Africa, India, Mexico, Germany…

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Dean Roper

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2016-12-30 10:43

Mobile publishing: 5 questions for Eversify

We will take a tour around the World Publishing Expo of the different mobile publishing solutions to see what new developments and trends are emerging from providers and their clients. Rainer Kirschke, Business Manager of Eversify, answers our five questions about Agfa’s solution for mobile.

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Dean Roper

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2016-10-10 14:30

Words of wisdom from three digital advertising aces

The push to make the digital advertising landscape less complex and at the same time more transparent, efficient, reader-friendly, and of course profitable has dominated the agendas of ad and sales teams for the past few years. Coping with trends such as programmatic, mobile and, most recently, ad blocking – to name a few – requires more than just embracing the latest technology. We asked three advertising specialists for their assessments of the current digital ad landscape just ahead of World Publishing Expo 2016.

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Dean Roper

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2016-09-05 11:50

The new Le Monde: From an institution to an entrepreneurial adventure

“Within two weeks, the French newspaper Le Monde will run out of cash.” So began French media analyst Frederic Filloux’s Monday Note essay on June 10, 2010. The iconic daily practically had one foot in the grave. Today, Le Monde is quickly becoming a reference for transformation of a traditional publisher, thanks in part to its innovation-driven strategy led by group president, Louis Dreyfus.

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Dean Roper

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2016-06-15 19:40

Boston Globe's STAT niche site eyes paid-content trials

One of the most ambitious niche news sites ever launched, The Boston Globe's STAT health and life sciences site is free to the public but plans to experiment with paid content later this year.

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Dean Roper

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2016-06-14 15:23

Labs accelerate Globe and Mail's innovative engine

For a few years now, The Globe and Mail in Canada has had November earmarked for its move into a new, five-floor building in Toronto. But innovation never sleeps and CEO Phillip Crawley couldn’t wait to launch The Globe's new Lab351 innovation lab in the dedicated roomy space of the new building; instead “accelerating” its launch with a makeshift lab in its old headquarters. The results are already starting to pay off, he says.

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Dean Roper

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2016-06-06 17:13

The Economist: 240% YoY growth in programmatic revenue

For a publisher that has a stated strategy of doubling its reader revenue in five years, you might think The Economist doesn't have much faith in advertising down the road. While the iconic "newspaper" is indeed a reader revenue success story, its advertising business is still thriving, says Ashwin Sridhar, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Economist Digital Products Revenue, and Head of Ideas People Media.

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Dean Roper

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2016-06-06 14:07

DME16 takeaways: questions abound, but answers coming around

Uncertainty reigns today in digital news publishing and that was evident at Digital Media Europe in Vienna last week. But there was also some true moxy on display. With a little crowdsourcing, here are our takeaways from the event that drew 330 executives from 35 countries.

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Dean Roper

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2016-04-29 12:46

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