Editorsweblog.org has a big crop of posts from the 2004 World Editors Forum being held in Istanbul, including:

::Marta Botero de Leyva, Partner Director at Innovation in Colombia, on ten trends shaping front pages.

::Le Monde discovered "the importance of photography" in, er, 2001.

::David Wadmore, Associated Head of Design at The Times of London: "What we have experienced over the last year is not just a front page revolution, but rather a revolution of the entire paper... What we were embarking on was a tightrope act, a tightrope act with two wires."

::Roger Black on "the stale look of quality."

::Tabloids are the future, says an editor of El Universal. (Again with the we're-all-going-tabloid predictions!)

::George Brock, managing editor of The Times of London, on his paper's decision to offer a tabloid edition.

::Simon Kelner, editor-in-chief of newly tab-converted The Independent, on his epiphany in the toothpaste aisle: "Why can't you do that with a paper? The newspaper is perhaps the only product whose shape and size is dictated by the producer not the consumer."

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