Peter is responsible for the global growth of CNN International Digital, including setting the strategic vision, product development and execution. He is a proven industry leader, and has demonstrated the ability to work in both traditional and emerging media, combining his journalism experience with a keen understanding of the complexities in working for a technology giant. Prior to his role with CNN, Peter was the International Programming Director for MSN and was responsible for content on MSN’s properties outside the US, setting editorial policy and standards on MSN sites worldwide
... Read moreMarco's career as a journalist began in 1986. He has worked for the ANSA news agency in Florence, Milan, New York, Washington DC, and. He was founder and editor in chief of “Reality Magazine”, one of the first Italian online magazines. While in the US, he covered three presidential campaigns, the first international Al Qaeda trial in Manhattan, the September 11, 2001 attack on America, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He won the 2005 edition of Premio Saint-Vincent di Giornalismo, one of the most important journalism awards in Italy. Marco is the author of La Scala Spezzata
... Read moreWhen Christian was 24, he travelled around the world, looking for men and women who were moving the world forward and after this “World Hope Tour”, the book written by Christian and his two travel companions (L’Espérance Autour du Monde - Hope Around the World) became a bestseller. While a consultant in strategy and change management in the consulting firm BearingPoint, he co-founded a social business, Reporters of Hope (Reporters d’Espoirs) and encouraged a large group of media CEOs (TV, Radio, Press and Internet…) to focus on solution-based information. In 2007, Reporters of Hope (Reporters d’Espoirs) became the first and only press agency specialized in the treatment of initiatives and solutions. In 2006, Christian co-founded a production company to produce a feature film based on the life of Professor Muhammad
... Read moreStéphane has over 10 years of entrepreneurship experience, and a proven track record of building successful companies in the digital and entertainment industries. He has also served as managing director for several subsidiaries of Rentabiliweb, and is a recognized expert in buzz marketing and innovation. Besides managing Going To Digital, he created with the conglomerate L'Express, the "media for equity" fund L'Express Ventures in 2012. He was awarded best entrepreneur by BFM in 2008, and won the FEVAD innovation award in 2010. Stéphane holds a BA from ESSEC, and a Master degree fro
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Sue has worked as a journalist for local and national British newspapers, radio stations and all the UK’s national television networks, including ITN where she was editor of News at Ten. She has helped launch new TV channels and won national and international awards for journalism and film-making. In 2001 AP appointed Sue to help develop and manage the digitalisation of its London newsroom and in 2011 she became AP's Director of Video Transformation. In this role she ensures the best possible use of technology for the delivery of video onto traditional and new platforms. Sue is a Sulzberger
... Read moreMr. Cebrián has been Chairman of Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. since July 2012 and since April 2011 has been Chairman of Diario El Pais of which he was the founding Editor-in-Chief. Previously he served as News Editor-in-Chief of the public Spanish TV network (TVE). He is also the Member of Advisory Board at The International Council on Security and Development.
He has won numerous journalism awards, including New York's World Press Review´s Editor of the Year Award, the Premio Nacional de Periodismo (National Journalism Award), the Free Speech Medal from the F.D. Roosevelt Four F
... Read morePuruesh Chaudhary is a media development and strategic communications professional; pertaining to key functional areas covering research, content evaluation and its conceptual development. She has been a professional broadcast editor and has worked in leading news channels in Pakistan; both in Urdu and English: designing, developing and planning content for news, current affairs and other special assignments. She is the Center for International Media Ethics’ Ambassador to Pakistan and has been presenting the country’s content landscape on various development forums. She is also the youngest Al
... Read moreLos Angeles born David, formerly a freelance technology reporter, co-founded the crowd-funded journalism site, Spot.Us, in 2008. He is now the founding editor of Circa, the recently launched innovative news-reading iPhone app. David blogs and tweets about the future of the media business as “Digidave.”
Mark has been a broadcast journalist and editor for 28 years. For 15 years he travelled to every continent on assignment for ABC-TV Australia’s weekly international affairs program Foreign Correspondent. and from 2001- 2010, he reported on Washington’s declared ‘Global War on Terrorism’ from a diverse range of locations. In 2008 he took on the additional role of Foreign Correspondent presenter. His last assignment was to Cairo in 2011, where he spent two weeks in Tahrir Square with protestors. Mark has received numerous Australian journalism prizes including the prestigious Walkley Award for International Reporting and the TV Logie Award as producer of the Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report. International Awards include the Reuters/Mohamed Amin Award for his reporting from Sierra Leone, several New York International TV Gold Medals, and a UN Association Prize for Environmental Reporting for his work in the Bolivian Andes. Mark is currently on study leave as a Visiting
... Read moreBertrand Delanoë was elected Mayor of Paris in March 2001 and re-elected for a second mandate in March 2008. He is the President of the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF) and Honorary President of United Cities and Local Governments.
In addition to an unwavering commitment to social justice and sustainable development, innovation has been a guiding principle in the Mayor’s approach to policy-making. In the area of public transport, for example, innovation has successfully diversified the transport offer and reduced pollution, notably via the new tramway, the se
... Read morePedro was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the executive-editor responsible for Digital Platforms at O Globo, one of the country's leading quality papers. Doria's been working with digital journalism for almost two decades and has worked in Brazil's largest newsrooms. He was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and is the author of five books.
Stavros is a senior management executive with 10 years experience in editorial strategy, content creation, digital marketing, e-commerce and global partnerships. He is the Director of Operations & Digital Content in 24 Media, the largest digital publisher in Greece. He is passionate about digital content, social media and analytics.
Before joining Google/YouTube, Gregory was in charge of international business development, digital media, at Lagardere Active. Previously he was VP Marketing, France & International, at Dailymotion and worked for 8 years at Time Warner Inc. He studied politics in Paris and also studied at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Chris Elliott began his career in local newspapers and has been a journalist for nearly 40 years, the last 15 years at the Guardian. He has been a reporter, news editor and managing editor. Since August 2010 he has been the readers' editor.
Before joining Les Echos Frédéric worked for 12 years at Liberation, successively as a business reporter, New York correspondent, editor of the multimedia section, manager of online operations, and, finally, editor of the paper. He has also worked as an Editor for the international division of the Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA. In 2002, he was part of the team who launched the free daily 20 Minutes in France. Frédéric is also co-writer of the Monday Note, a regular contributor for Slate.fr and teaches multimedia journalism at the Science Po School of Journalism in Paris.
... Read moreMike is editorial lead for delivering Future's specialist content and brands onto tablet. He headed the specialist media company's recent translation of its print brands to iPad, successfully bringing 65 titles to Apple Newsstand for launch. Whilst at Future, Mike has most recently been Editor-in-Chief of www.MusicRadar.com for which he was short-listed for BSME Website Editor of the Year (2009). In his two years on MusicRadar, he grew traffic from 100,000 to 800,000 monthly uniques and from 800,000 to more than 5.5m monthly page views.
Storify builds tools for journalists, bloggers and anyone to make stories by curating the social Web. Burt is also co-founder of Hacks/Hackers, an international non-profit organization that brings together journalists and technologists to collaborate on projects.
Previously, as bureau chief and correspondent for The Associated Press, Burt covered politics, conflict, culture and business across the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Asia. He was an embedded reporter with the U.S. Marines and Air Force during the 2003 Iraq war and covered fighting in northern Afghanistan and the U.S. military buildup in Central Asia after the Sept. 11 attacks. Among other major stories he has covered were the 2001 Macedonia war, the 2003 "rose revolution" in Georgia, 2004 tsunami from worst-hit Indonesia, 2004 Beslan
Azubuike has been Managing Director of Leadership Newspapers since the beginning of 2011. Previously he was Editor of THE PUNCH daily newspaper. He is a member of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, the Nigerian Union of Journalists, and lectures part time at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. He holds a Masters degree in Public Administration & International and a B.Sc in Mass Communications.
NewsCred is online media company connecting audiences with the world’s best journalism and is reinventing the current news model to license, curate and deliver high quality content; cheaper, smarter and easier. With over 700+ of the world’s highest quality news sources, NewsCred provides full text news articles, photos and video from sources like The Economist and The Washington Post, Billboard and Forbes, Gawker and The Guardian.
Before founding NewsCred, Shafqat was previously a VP of Technology at Merrill Lynch. He graduated with a BSE in Computer Engineering and a BA in Economic
... Read moreJeff, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live and What Would Google Do?, blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He consults for media companies and is a public speaker. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was crea
... Read moreGary is working to create a multidisciplinary, multicampus Center for Mobile Media at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was dean of the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications for two years during which the college created the nation's first Drone Journalism Lab. Before going to Nebraska, Gary was the journalism program director at the Knight Foundation in Miami, where he administered the Knight News Challenge, a $25 million contest to fund digital news innovations and experiments. Previously, as News Director at AOL, he helped build one of the largest news and social sites on the
... Read moreMatt has played a leading role in newspaper publishing innovation for two decades. As Publisher of the UK's Daily Mirror portfolio of websites, he launched a string of successful new digital brands and products, including MirrorFootball.co.uk and 3am.co.uk, across a wide range of platforms. An expert in digital strategy, newsroom structure and web design, he passionately believes that the key to publishing success in the digital age is a blend of technology and editorial brilliance, creating what he describes as an emotional engagement with the customer. He is currently Managing Director
... Read moreAs standards editor, Tom oversees issues of ethics and credibility in AP operations worldwide and speaks internationally on journalistic ethics and newsroom management. Previously he was chief of the AP bureau in Moscow and international editor of the AP. He has also served with the AP as correspondent in Sydney, Australia; correspondent for NATO and the European Union in Brussels; chief of AP operations in Iran during the Iranian revolution. He holds a degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University and speaks Russian, French and Spanish. Tom has taught at the
... Read moreAnnemarie is a digital consultant who offers strategic advice to publishers and site owners. She has previously been responsible for digital business development at Berlingske Media and has worked with digital strategy at Mediacom. She has given presentations on digital business development and monetisation of content at conferences in Scandinavia and other European countries. She’s very focused on how new technical developments can improve the bottom line for media companies and speaks and writes about this particular subject frequently.
Ricardo is Executive Editor of Clarín and Executive Managing Editor of Clarín's news website. He began his career working for El Pueblo newspaper and joined the political section of Clarín in 1976, later becoming Deputy Editor. He was also a political columnist for Clarín's Sunday edition. In 1984 he won the Ortega y Gasset prize awarded annually by the Spanish newspaper “El Pais” in recognition of his research work on the Falkland War/La Guerra de las Malvinas.
In June 2012 Ricardo was elected president of the Global Editors Network by the association's Board members.
... Read moreDr Levy has been Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism since September 2008. Earlier that year he was a member of the Commission to review the future of France Télévisions and he was a member of the Board of France 24, from 2009 and 2012. He is a non Executive member of the UK Statistics Authority and of the Content Board of the UK Communications Regulator Ofcom. He was Controller, Public Policy at the BBC until 2007 where he led the BBC's policy for the Charter Review and was in charge of public policy & regulation. Prior to his BBC policy role he worked as
... Read moreMark has been a journalist for almost 20 years. He was Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Washington Correspondent and news anchor for RTE, the Irish national broadcaster. He left RTE in December 2009 to set up the social news agency, Storyful, which extracts news from the social media noise. Storyful discovers, verifies and delivers the most valuable and authentic content on social media platforms and works with some of the world's leading news brands.
Mark won the TV Journalist of the Year award in 2001 for his reporting from Afghanistan. He is the author of three books about US and worl
... Read moreMichael joined the Knight Foundation (www.knightfoundation.org) in 2011. Previously, he was vice president of innovation and design at Gannett where he led the creation of an innovation process based on human-centered design and launched multiple new brands. He also served as vice president of strategic planning for Gannett's newspaper division, launched several local news sites across the company and developed the industry’s first daily video newscast on the Web done without a television partner. He was a co-winner in 2007 of the Chairman's Special Achievement Award at Gannett and was named to the Newspaper Association of America's list of "20 under 40"
... Read moreValue Added Services’ mission is to increase the reasons to choose HTC. VAS brings additional value to HTC proposition with new services in shopping experience, home solutions and mobile search/advertising.
In addition to his role at CPJ, Jean-Paul is also vice-chair of the advisory committee of the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch, a foreign affairs columnist at Le Soir and associate editor of Europe’s World. He teaches international journalism at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) and journalism ethics at the Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECSS, Brussels). Author in 2010 of a report on the Press Complaints Commission and the hacking scandal he advises the European Journalism Network on Latin America. Previously Jean-Paul was foreign
... Read moreJane has a long history of creating and promoting digital journalism in the commercial, independent and nonprofit worlds. Prior to joining ONA, she served as Consulting Senior Editor for the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s 2008 State of the News Media Report. In 2006-2007, she oversaw the communications, marketing and digital efforts at the Center for Public Integrity and was part of a CPI team that won online awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the National Press Foundation, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Association
... Read moreScott is an award winning photographer who, as a web pioneer in ‘92, and technologist of first order, launched the net's first database for editorial pictures: ZUMA Wire. His dynamic leadership of the ZUMA Press family of companies, as well as decades of wide-ranging experience in photojournalism, have proven to be instrumental in establishing one of the largest editorial photo agencies in the world and the first digital age picture agency. Today Zuma is the agent to some of the world's most respected photojournalists, magazines, newspapers, agencies and wire services and always evol
... Read moreJean-Louis Missika has been successively Adviser to the President of the French public broadcaster Antenne 2 (1979-1984), Research Director at the Prospective Research Department of the INA (National Institute of radio and television) (1985-1986), Editor of the journal Médiaspouvoirs (1986-1988), Head of the Prime Minister Information Service (1988-1991), Director at the General Management of the Groupe de la Cité (1991-1993), Executive Vice-president and Managing Director of the Sofres Media Department (1993-1995), Managing director of pollster BVA (1995-1998) and Vice-président of ILIAD (2007-2008). In 1998, Jean-Louis created JLM Conseil, a consulting firm focused on three complementary activities : strategic consulting for media clients, socio-political studies, and corporate communication strategy. JLM Conseil has been part of the Altedia Group since April 2001. Altedia
... Read moreRobb Montgomery is the CEO and founder of Visual Editors and has worked as an editor for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune. Since 2005 he has worked with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop visual journalism expertise and to design cross-media newsrooms. He has redesigned several newspapers including the Chicago Sun-Times and The Examiner in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Dennis is a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and online media space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits. Dennis is obsessed with the marriage between News Media and Analytics and this passion triggered the formation of Visual Revenue. He’s an accredited Associate Web Analytics Instructor at the University of British Colombia, the Author of Data Driven Insights with YWA from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of analytics and media.
Soe Myint is the founder of Mizzima, established in 1998 and specilizing in Burma/Myanmar Related News and Multimedia. He is Managing Director and Editor In-Chief of Mizzima Media. Soe was in exile for 24 years while Burma was under the military dictatorship. He was a student of international relations at Rangoon University at the time of the 1988 student demonstrations in Burma and participated in the 1988 people’s uprising for democracy. He went into exile in India after the military coup only returning to Burma in January 2012. He published a book “Burma File: A Question of Democracy”
... Read moreFor the past five years Shazna Nessa worked at Associated Press in New York, pioneering AP’s interactive, social media, mobile and data journalism presence. As deputy managing editor, she created and led an award-winning global department that created interactive news content, including the development of two data journalism tools funded by the Knight Foundation’s news innovation grants. She also designed and currently teaches the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s first ever design course. Prior to her role at AP, she was the executive multimedia producer at Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com
... Read moreNic is a journalist and digital strategist who played a key role in shaping the BBC’s internet services over more than a decade. He was a founding member of the BBC News Website, leading international coverage as World Editor (1997-2001). As Head of Product Development for BBC News he helped introduce innovations such as blogs, podcasting and on-demand video. Most recently he led digital teams, developing websites, mobile and interactive TV applications for News, Sport, Weather and Local. He has played an important part in the development of social media strategies and guidelines for the wider
... Read moreNatalie is the first woman to be chosen as Director and Executive Editor of Le Monde. Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg and Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris, Natalie first started working as a correspondent journalist in ex-Yugoslavia and central Europe for Liberation, RFI and the BBC. She made her first step at Le Monde in 1996, as the Russian correspondent. She won the Albert Londres Prize in 2005 for her reporting on Chechnya and the Beslan school hostage crisis. She was appointed Director and Executive Editor of Le Monde on 1 March 2013.
...Digital First Media operates Digital First Ventures, MediaNews Group and Journal Register Company. The combined companies, with approximately $1.4Billion in revenues and 10,000 employees, operate more than 800 digital and online products in 18 states serving more than 57 million customers per month. Paton is a career news media executive who has been responsible for both print and online divisions in the US, Canada and Europe. John is the co-founder of impreMedia, the largest news and information company for Hispanics in the US. In April 2009 he was named Publisher of the Year by Editor & Publisher
... Read moreJohn is also professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University and director of the Journalism Research Institute. Pavlik’s books include Converging Media and Journalism and New Media. He was a contributing columnist at CNN.com. He is co-developer of the Situated Documentary, a form of storytelling using Augmented Reality. Pavlik's Ph.D. and M.A. are from the University of Minnesota.
Scott is also content director at KBIA radio, a partner of the Missouri Drone Journalism Program. Previously he worked at KBOO Portland community radio as a news producer and anchor, at NPR in Washington, DC and Pacifica Radio in the San Francisco Bay area.
Nata, born in Turin, has been a Parisian for 30 years. In 1983 he created Rampazzo & Associés which specialises in web site design. He is also the founder of two book publishing companies. Rampazzo & Associés has been responsible for the redesigning of numerous newspapers, magazines and web sites, including the first daily news site in France, Nouvelobs.com. Nata has also illustrated several books and created the logos for many international companies. In 2012 he co-founded Panoptik, a communications agency specialising in social networks.
Benoît is an editorial strategist, consultant and entrepreneur. He has launched several successful websites in France with major titles that have integrated innovative social media and mobile elements to rapidly build significant audiences. In 2012 he launched Trendsboard, the premier editorial marketing tool for media companies. Its patented, semantic algorithm allows the media to predict in real-time which stories will be popular in the coming hours by detecting the conversations that are beginning to buzz right now on social networks, search engines, blogs, brand sites and news sites
... Read moreOliver was born in 1971 in Basel, Switzerland. He learned programming as a computer kid in the early 80s. After studying Philosophy in Basel and Paris, he started working as interactive brand consultant for Interbrand Zintzmeyer&Lux.
He moved to Japan in September 2003 and started iA Inc in 2005. iA has set new standards in interaction design with clients like DIE ZEIT, Tages-Anzeiger and Freitag and its best selling text editor called iA Writer.
Dr Ryan is a tech thinker & writer, Chief Innovation Officer at The Irish Times and an Associate Researcher at the University of Cambridge Business School. His writing has appeared in Fortune, BusinessWeek, Ars Technica. His second book 'A History of the Internet and the Digital Future' has received glowing endorsements from thought leaders in industry and academia and is on the reading list at Harvard, Stanford, and other top tier institutions.
Abeer is a journalist with 21 years of experience in reporting on everything from wars to revolutions. As the only women on the board of the Egyptian Press Syndicate, Abeer also shares her thoughts on the issue of women rights in the country.
Before helping launch The Huffington Post, Roy was a writer, producer, and on-air correspondent for Michael Moore's Emmy-winning TV Nation. was the head writer for the 2000 Shadow Conventions, and Communications Director for Arianna Huffington's 2003 gubernatorial campaign.
He has also worked as a screenwriter - penning scripts for 20th Century Fox, Universal, Disney, Caravan, and Sony - and as a free-lance journalist, writing for publications including The Village Voice, The Times, Elle, Redbook, and Rock Magazine. He is a frequent guest on TV and radio shows.
Hu Shuil was the founder of Caijing Magazine (Business and Finance Review) in 1998 and under her leadership the magazine became one of China’s most authoritative business publications. She moved on in 2009 to create the breakthrough media company, Caixin Media, which aims to help traditional media prosper in the new media age through integrated multimedia platforms. Led by Hu Shuli, the editorial staff at Caixin Media is well known for independent thinking and professional practices and is especially known for its investigative reporting. Caixin Media is referred to as “one of China’s
... Read moreBefore founding ProPublica, a non-profit news organization, Paul was the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal (from 1991 to 2007). During his tenure, members of the Journal’s newsroom staff were awarded 16 Pulitzer Prizes. Also, ProPublica reporters received Pulitzer Prizes in 2010 and 2011. Paul is a member of the steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
He is a trustee of the Knight Foundation, which funds efforts to enhance journalism and the functioning of American communities. From 1999 to 2007, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board,
Aidan is a journalist and specialist in media policy. He is the former General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists which he led for 24 years until March 2011. Previously he was a journalist for The Guardian in London. He is an active campaigner for the rights of journalists worldwide and is the founder of global networks of media organisations and press freedom groups dealing with free expression and safety in news reporting. He is the author of many texts on journalism and rights including The Ethical Journalism Initiative (2008) and Ethical Journalism and Human Rights (2
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