Gavin O’Reilly

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has now issued a press release that "welcomes Google CEO Eric Schmidt's statement supporting the aim of the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP)".If this confuses you, then you are probably not alone.It was under a week ago, that WAN released a terse statement calling ...

I had a feeling this would be the end result. At first there was co-operation and pleasantries exchanged between the media publishers and Google, and then it all went sour. Online publishers and newspapers appear to be heading for a face-off with search engine behemoth, Google.On Thursday, online publishers ...

Gavin O'Reilly, the president for the World Association of Newspapers, said on Tuesday morning in Cape Town, that while there was so much hype about the Myspace acquisition by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, it should be noted that he was also pouring money into the newspaper industry at the same ...

The 3 keys to media profitability in the 21st century A US executive says three words have led his newspaper company to success That has exceeded wildest expectations - fragmentation, interactivity and accountability.Defining editorial quality in the digital age The quality of print is currently better than online, editors agreed ...

Trevor Ncube, President of the Newspaper Association of South Africa and CEO of Mail & Guardian in South Africa, delivered an impassioned and brilliant speech calling on African leaders to understand the role that the press plays in society, and particularly on the African continent. He was speaking at the ...