The sixth in a series of high-end one-day fora relevant to senior managers in our industry was held on 23^rd November 2018 in Porto, Portugal.

The theme of the forum, hosted by RTP Porto, was How To Do More (or Equal) With Less Money.

Programme:

09:30 - 11:00
Opening – welcome address of Isabel Correia, RTP Porto Director, Jyri Kataya-Rakho, President CIRCOM Regional and Fernando R. Ojea, Secretary General.
Danish example with DR, presented by Mr. Peder Meisner: Drastic reduction of DR’s budget and how they have dealt with it.
Exchange of ideas

11:15 - 12:15
Irish example presented by Alan Esslemont, Director General of TG4: How TG4 dealt with significant reduction of the budget (employees, travel, overheads, working closely with universities, etc...)
Exchange of ideas

13:30 – 15:30
Swedish example with SVT (regions) presented by Christina Ågren, Head of SVT Local and Minority News and Programming:
In the context of a constrained budget: How to make better use of ones resources and the technical development to optimize the transformation and maximise the output to the audience in the regions.
Exchange of ideas

Spanish example from CRTVG (Galicia) and RTPA (Asturias) presented by Fernando Ojea: How to manage less funding under medium or high pressure in the South of Europe
Exchange of ideas

15:45 - 17:00
Round-up discussion
What are the lessons drawn from today discussions?
Exchange of concrete experiences: each participant will explain one or several experiences they went through and how they succeeded or failed, about budget or cost reduction, new contents, HR questions, technical problems, political… with a regional perspective of course.

17:00 End of the meeting

19-21/11/2018 Brussels, Belgium

8-9/11/2018 Brussels, Belgium

European Youth Center, Budapest, Hungary
13^th - 15^th November 2018 for 8 journalists/content producers (3 days)
14^th - 15^th November 2018 for 6 newsroom managers (2 days)

How can TV people reach the younger audiences, those not interested in TV at all?
That's the mission statement for the "Life After TV" training, successfully conducted for the third time by CIRCOM; this time in Budapest. 14 journalists from all over the continent learn about essential changes that affect their work and their ability to cover the news.

As television stations are transforming into multi-outlets media organisations, this training is designed to help newsroom managers and content producers to change their mindset and get out of their TV-only news production habits. The session was divided into two separate trainings with different goals, but all delegates also worked together in a temporary newsroom with new techniques, formats and publishing of those formats.

The content producers learn techniques to produce items besides the traditional TV packages they are used to do. These include the use of their mobile phone, desktop computer, online tools to produce a variety of items on and around the same story; think data visualization, Snapchat, Instagram Stories, Explanatory videos and much more.

Content producers training goals:
- Learn about what new formats are being used in the media
- Use new tools such as: mobile phone for content production, graphic design software, online mapping tools, animation tools etc.
- Adapt your content to the outlet you're publishing to
- Participate in a news production operation in training with the delegates from the editors group
- Debrief and feedback on what was learned 

  schedule for journalists/content producers

The newsroom managers learn about the new formats available to them as tools to reach new audiences and carry the news to them. They also learn about techniques on how to train their staff to produce these new formats.

Newsroom managers training goals:
- Learn about what new formats are being used in the media
- Learn how to cover the news using a multi-format, multi-outlet approach
- Learn how to get the skilled people you need to achieve this
- Learn how to organise your newsroom to enable it to produce new formats
- Lead a news production operation in training with the delegates from the journalists group
- Debrief and feedback on what was learned

  schedule for newsroom managers

On the last day of the training newsroom managers and content producer joined forces and were split into two competing newsrooms. The two rival brands, News 1 and News 2, were tasked with covering the topic "How COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - affects people" on social networks. Having them cover the topic not compelling to the target, and forbidding them to use traditional TV formats, forced both newsrooms to be creative and think out of the box, both in terms of production and scope of the coverage.

The trainers:
Kulwant Sohal, BBC London News, Digital Editor
Guillaume Kuster, CIRCOM's media expert, Consultant & Journalist, Tarkka Media
Johannes Kardell, SVT, Project Manager for Online Development in Local News and Minorities
Balàzs Bende, MTVA, News Editor