Contreras will report on where the US business model stands; the larger issues for the industry in a time of content explosion and revenue constriction; what he considers it means to be a newspaper in America today; the financial reality behind the US journalism model; and the demands of addressing these issues in a landscape that demands a new sense of urgency.
Contreras joined The E. W. Scripps Company in 2005 and was promoted a year later to his current position of SVP Newspapers, where he oversees the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the Scripps newspaper division, its daily and community newspapers in 13 markets, innovative web-based information services and other related businesses.
He has a long history in the US newspaper business and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program of The Newspaper Management Centre at Northwestern University and was selected by The Aspen Institute as one of 20 Henry Crown Fellows.
The congress, along with the World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, are the global meetings of the world's press, organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
The events will be opened by the Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, and will be hosted by the An-Nahar newspaper.
For more information, go to www.wanlebanon2010.com.
