The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) will be providing updates from the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo in Hyderabad this week on all platforms, using all media, to allow you to follow the global summit meetings of the world's press from a distance.

A team of multimedia journalists from WAN-IFRA and from Western Kentucky University in the United States will provide the updates via text, photo, video and podcasts.

Follow the events on the WAN-IFRA multiblog at www.wan-ifra.org/blogs/wanindia2009, a sophisticated, professional form of the common Internet blog, and on the World Editors Forum blog at www.editorsweblog.org.

You can also follow the events on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NewspaperWorld or by using the hash tag #WANindia09.

An Integrated Media Team from Western Kentucky University is joining WAN-IFRA journalists to help produce the multimedia coverage. The team of 14 students and three faculty members from the School of Journalism & Broadcasting will augment the publications staff of WAN-IFRA.

Using the latest in high-tech mobile equipment, the student journalists and their instructors will post multimedia-rich entries on the site at an average rate of one every 10 minutes throughout the four days of presentations and social events, from 30 November to 3 December.

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world's newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.

Learn more about WAN-IFRA at www.wan-ifra.org or through the WAN-IFRA Magazine at www.ifra.net/microsites/wan-ifra-ma....

Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, WAN-IFRA, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: larry.kilman@wan-ifra.org.