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Media3 holding delegation participated in 61st WAN Congress (World Association of Newspapers) and WEF (World Editor’s Forum) held in June 1-4 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Media3 company entered WAN not long before the beginning of the Congress, it became second Russian legitimate member after Russian Print Media Association. Other Russian publishing houses participate in WAN only as Print Media Association associated members.

Media3 management company participated in WAN as legitimate member for the first time. Media3 holding and “Argumenty i Fakty” publishing house General director Aleksander Strakhov, Media3 company Deputy General Manager for Content and “Trud” newspaper Head Editor Vladimir Borodin, Media3 Adviser of the board and Print Media Association Vice-President Vasiliy Gatov participated in Congress. The delegation interest was concentrated on local markets strategies implemented by modern media groups.
Aleksander Strakhov commented Media3 representative delegation participation in Congress: “Being largest Russian publishing company Media3 considered necessary to ensure its direct representation in this key organization that determine strategy and trends of industry development. During visit we considered important to learn media market development tendencies of different countries and to understand if it can be used in Russia. Major publishers exchanged opinions regarding last few years Internet development, they no longer consider it as print media threat – penetration of newspapers content to Internet began. We consider it as key factor because the main Media3 business idea is to create a system of exclusive content production, which can be distributed on various information media – newspapers, magazines, web-pages etc. “MediaPark” project is implemented for this very reason. It will allow minimize expenses, create unique content and distribute it using our end-customer access”.

World Association of Newspapers (WAN) was established in 1948. This non-commercial independent organization consolidates 77 national news associations, individual members (newspapers top-managers of 102 countries of the world) and 12 national and international information agencies, mass media fund and 11 regional and world press sub-companies. Association Members represent more that 18.000 publishers from 5 continents of the world.