Hangzhou (China), Oct 10 (IANS): The third World Media Summit will be held by the New York Times Company in 2014, a presidium meeting of the World Media Summit (WMS) decided here Thursday.
Co-launched by Xinhua News Agency and other major media organisations around the world, the WMS aims to build an efficient platform for the global media to communicate with each other and pool collective wisdom, sparking their thoughts, discussing survival and development, and talking about cooperation and media's future, Xinhua reported .
The first WMS, held from Oct 8 to 10 in 2009, was co-launched by Xinhua and eight other media organisations including News Corporation, Associated Press, Thomson Reuters, ITAR-TASS, Kyodo News, BBC, Turner Broadcasting System Inc and Google Inc.