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The European Magazine Media Association, EMMA, welcomes the new Chairman of EMMA’s Corporate Advisory Group (CAG), Dr. Thilo von Trott (photo), Head of Public Affairs at Gruner + Jahr  in Germany.

The Creative Media Business Alliance, CMBA, is celebrating World Intellectual Property Day today, 26 April 2013.

On 23 April, the Future Media Lab. organized the conference "Understanding Disruption and how it Drives Innovation in the Media Sector" at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in Brussels, Belgium. This event brought together approximately 150 media experts, EU policy makers and key stakeholders to work on a vision of the future media landscape in 2050 and discuss the political aspects of this outlook.

The Future Media Lab. is collaborating with the European Commission’s “Digital Futures” Project to bring a unique, interactive dynamic to the third Future Media Lab. conference, which will take place next week on 23 April 2013 at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU in Brussels. This conference will be opened by Vice-President Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda.

The Future Media Lab., a think-tank initiative aimed at bridging the fast-paced innovations of the media sector and long-lasting legislative procedures, announced that European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes will be presenting a keynote address at the “Shaping the Future of Media” conference in April.

Registration is now open for the second annual Future Media Lab. conference, which will be held on 23 April 2013 in Brussels. This year’s theme is “Shaping the Future of Media: Understanding disruption and how it drives innovation in the media sector.” This conference provides a unique opportunity to look at how media consumption trends, technological innovation, funding content creation and business development impact the future of media.

The European Magazine Media Association, which recently changed its name from FAEP to EMMA, is hosting the European Magazine Media Night on the 28th of February 2012 in Brussels communication nest “The Egg”.

The Future Media Lab. published a follow-up report for the Future Media Lab. conference "creative funding for creative media", which looked into innovative funding schemes for quality and investigative journalism in Europe.

Preparations have begun for this year’s Shaping the Future of Media conference, scheduled for 23 April 2013. The conference, titled “Understanding Disruption and how it Drives Innovation in the Media Sector”, aims to bring together media experts, key stakeholders, and politicians to examine how media consumption trends, technological innovation, funding content creation and business development impact the future of media.

Ms. Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, has confirmed she will present the closing keynote address at the Future Media Lab. conference on 23 April 2013.

Last week the German media market witnessed the announcement that two major national newspaper titles will close. This reopened a debate about how to fund quality journalism in the future, when the reader is not the one and only revenue source for the press. Exactly this question was addressed three weeks ago at the Future Media Lab. conference in Ghent, titled “creative funding for creative media”

The Print Media Group is a network of players in the print media chain who meet regularly to discuss common interests, share best practices and collaborate on common policy issues. Intergraf is the current chair of the group with 9 other member associations, including EMMA.

On November 6 and 7, the Future Media Lab. hosted the first European conference on innovative media funding in Ghent, Belgium. The event, which was part of the annual iMinds conference “Creative Media Days”, brought together leading experts in creative media funding approaches with journalists and publishing representatives. The discussions prompted a call for new forms of cooperation between donor organizations and media companies and a rethink of the way journalism is financed and published. There was also recognition of the need for journalists and publishers to effectively interact with their “communities” of readers.

On 6+7 November, the Future Media Lab. organized the conference "Creative Funding for Creative Media" in Ghent, Belgium. This event was part of the "Creative Media Days" hosted by iMinds.

The Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) this fall presented a comprehensive study about Vietnam’s Media Market.

The Future Media Lab confirms that Danae Ringelmann, co-founder and chief operating officer of Indiegogo.com, Paul Lewis, special projects editor for The Guardian newspaper, Wouter Bax, editor-in-chief of NU.nl, and Bobbie Johnson, the co-founder of Matter, the most successful crowdfunded digital magazine project launched via kickstarter.com will be presenting at the first European conference on creatively funded media.

On the 8th and 9th of October, EMMA organized a study tour of Brussels. This "tour" gave members of our network a glance behind the scenes of Brussels' politics.

First European conference on innovatively financed media 6 and 7 November 2012 in Ghent (Belgium) What can the European media and publishing sector learn from the latest revolution of non-profit quality journalism?

Key stakeholders from the European digital advertising community met on Friday, 12 October 2012 to officially launch the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA: http://edaa.eu/ ).

1st European conference on innovatively financed media // 6 and 7 November 2012 in Ghent (Belgium)