Misinformation, shrinking audiences, and those who want affirmation rather than education… these are among the challenges to be tackled at the upcoming Asian Media Leaders Summit

With news media facing a range of challenges, the summit (Singapore, November 6-7) promises to come up with some of the answers.

Among speakers will be leading voices from Agence France-Presse, the BBC, Syli, Stuff (New Zealand) and others, talking about what matters most in journalism today, what stories matter the most, how to engage readers, how to earn their trust and also do all that with ever tightening editorial budgets.

Slated to speak in Singapore are Alex Murray (BBC Verify, UK), Keith Lynch (Stuff Digital, New Zealand), Michael Mainville (AFP Hong Kong), Emmy Abdul Alim (Journalism and media trainer, Singapore), Tom Trewinnard (Founder & COO of Syli, UK) and Kavita Chandran (Journalism trainer and content consultant, Asia).

Organisers are offering AI-assisted mobile phone app translation in Thai, Indonesian Bahasa, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The programme has been divided into two tracks – a leaders summit for CEOs, publishers, owners and revenue leaders, and an editors summit for editorial leaders re-thinking their journalism and the way they operate their newsrooms.

Other speakers include KG Media chief executive Andy Budiman, Hot Laundry Digital principal Anjali Kapoor, SCMP chief executive Catherine So, Singapore Advertising & Marketing Association director Geoff Tan, Dow Jones data and AI executive vice president and EMEA general manager Ingrid Verschuren, Schibsted Media data & AI director Juan Carlos Lopez Calvet, SPH Media (Singapore) chief technology officer Kaythaya Maw, Nhan Dan Newspaper (Vietnam) editor-in-chief Le Quoc Minh, Hindu Group chief executive L V Navaneeth, and Inquirer Group (Philippines) chairperson Sandy Romualdez, IDN (Indonesia) founder and chief executive Winston Utomo, and IDN Times editor in chief Zulfiani Lubis, who is also chair of the Indonesia Forum of Women Journalists.

From Australia, speakers include Capital Brief chief executive Chris Janz (also a member of WAN-Ifra’s Expert Panel), and Nine Publishing managing director Tory Maguire.

More details on the conference website.