Publishing Congress

The Winners Night #EPC24 🏆 Congratulations the winner of European Publishing Awards 2024: correctiv.org, Gruppetto - Das Magazin für Radsport und Velokultur, WirtschaftsWoche, MaMagazine, Fozzie 18, der Freitag, Tagesspiegel, nrc, Naftemporiki and Helmut Markwort.

The weekly newspaper "der Freitag" focuses on a clear, tidy and elegant layout and a "second look" at things. Editor-in-chief Philip Grassmann, Lisa Kolbe and Christian Bobsien present concept and strategy of "der Freitag" that made it "European Weekly Newspaper of the Year“

After the relaunch: From full format to tabloid Editor-in-chief Christian Tretbar, Katrin Schuber and Manuel Kostrzynski, art directors and heads of the visual department, will present the "Tagesspiegel" concept which made them „European Regional Newspaper of the Year“. #EPC24

Design as a central task for managing a media brand: Editor-in-chief of „Wirtschaftswoche“ Horst von Buttlar will present the strategy of Europe's "Magazine of the Year" together with creative director Patrick Zeh. #EPC24

Marie-Sophie von Bibra from Readly were talking about increasing profitability and marketing ROI with predictive LTV. #EPC24

Excellently arranged by a small team on a daily basis. "Naftemporiki" is a financial and business newspaper in tabloid format. Dimitris Nikas, Design Director, will present the redesign which made it European Newspaper of the Year. #EPC24

With typography, photography and illustrations, "nrc" creates a convincing appearance: young, dynamic, future-orientated. Anne-Marije Vendeville, art director of "nrc", will present the concept of Europe's "National Newspaper of the Year". #EPC24

Trends in newspaper design + Europe's best multimedia editorial teams and their outstanding projects were presented by Norbert Küpper. #EPC24

Why the "Jungfrau Zeitung" has discontinued print and banned ChatGPT? Urs Gossweiler is the publisher of the "Jungfrau Zeitung", which is now only published digitally in the Bern area. He explains how the project is financed and why he has banned the use of ChatGPT. #EPC24

Clara-Milena Steiner and Jennifer Kapellari show what conclusions the "Kronen Zeitung" drew out of their organised future shaping "hackathon". They wanted to find out more about what their future readers and at #EPC24 they are presenting some ideas which are now being pursued.

Sascha Devigne is talking about "AI for local TV news". He is editor-in-chief of the regional TV station Studio 47 and is one of the pioneers of AI applications for TV news in Germany. #EPC24

Simone Wagner from BurdaForward explains how to shake up the industry with WhatsApp and what strategy BurdaFoward is using to reach over a million followers with messenger channels. #EPC24

AI already writes eleven percent of Kölner Stadtanzeiger's articles: CEO Thomas Schultz-Homberg and CPO Christine Schönfelder explain the media company's experience with AI and what they have planned next. #EPC24

From news agency to full-service AI provider: APA editor-in-chief Maria Scholl shows how one of Europe's most innovative news agencies is evolving from a news provider to a full-service AI provider for content processes. #EPC24

What AI skills will media organisations need in the future? Ekaterina Schneider and Lars Moll present how the "Axel Springer Academy of Journalism and Technology" trains journalism and tech students for the future of media. #EPC24

Ansgar Heise, Managing Partner of the Heise Group, explains what growth strategy the German media company Heise is pursuing and what role AI plays in this. #EPC24

Johann Oberauer opens #EPC24 and welcomes @antennedowideit, @correctiv_org to the stage as the first keynote speaker at this year's #EPC24 She was talking about the position of the media among citizens: How do we remain relevant? And how can we ensure that they continue to trust?

Ole Reißmann, Head of AI at "Spiegel", says that the editorial team can do it themselves and explains what experiences the news magazine has had with AI so far and how AI is being used. #EPC24