67th World News Media Congress · 22nd World Editors Forum · 25th World Advertising Forum
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Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. became publisher of The New York Times in 1992 and continues to run the Company’s flagship enterprise on a day-to-day basis. Over the past decade, he has shaped and...
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Larry Kramer is president and publisher of USA Today. Prior to that he was an adjunct professor of media management at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and a media consultant....
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Nancy Lane is the dynamic leader of the Local Media Association, an organization that represents nearly 3,000 newspapers and hundreds of broadcast companies, directory publishers, pure plays and...
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Torry Pedersen is CEO/Editor in Chief of Verdens Gang AS, Norway’s most read news-site/newspaper. He started his career as a journalist in Fredrikstad Blad 1981, and has more than 30 years of...
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Martin “Marty” Baron became executive editor of The Washington Post on January 2, 2013. He oversees The Post’s print and digital news operations.Under Baron’s leadership, the newsrooms of three major...
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Terry J. Kroeger is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BH Media Group, and the Publisher of The Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska’s largest daily newspaper. Mr. Kroeger has held a variety...
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Melissa Bell co-founded Vox.com in early 2014 and became the first person at Vox Media to hold both a technology and editorial title as Senior Product Manager and Executive Editor for Vox.com. Prior...
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Emily Bell is director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Emily worked as a leading print and online journalist and editor for over twenty years...
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Fadi Chehadé is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a not-for-profit, public benefit corporation with participants from all over the...
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Marta Gleich, 52, is the executive editor of Zero Hora and seven other RBS Group newspapers in Southern Brazil. She started working for the RBS group 31 years ago, as an intern, when she was still a...
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Nick leads our most advanced digital revenue programmes, from our eRev exec programme, to our MMA e-learning, study tours and consulting. He has a particular focus on digital subscription models. He...
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Perrine joined the Groupe Télégramme in 2012, as Group Marketing Director, where she is in charge of digital development. She is responsible for the digital revenues of head company Le Télégramme (...
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Greg Barber has made a career of startups within news organizations. After a stint growing the digital side of the PBS NewsHour, he’s spent 11 years at The Washington Post, helping to create and...
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Joyce Barnathan is president of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), a non-profit dedicated to advancing quality journalism worldwide. She helps develop and oversee high-impact programs...
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Donna Barrett has been president and chief executive officer of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI), a privately-held newspaper company based in Montgomery, Ala., since January 2006. CNHI...
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Fergus Bell is a UGC and digital newsgathering expert who has a passion for the positive development of this content in newsrooms and the wider industry. He is the co-founder of a committee for the...
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Nick Bell is now part of the Snapchat team. Formerly he was Senior Vice President of Digital Products at News Corporation. Bell also holds a Non-Executive position at Flock...
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Guy has many years of experience in the African media and headed the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa and was recently appointed Director for...
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David Biderman is the Director of Business Intelligence at Dow Jones, assisting on product strategy across The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch, Barron's and the company's various B2B products. He's...
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Ludovic Blecher has spent most of his professional career in the newspaper industry. He first worked at e-tf1 before joining Libération in 2001 as a web editor and then reporter for the website and...
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Matt Boggie is the Executive Director of the R&D Lab at The New York Times. As the lab is tasked with describing the future of media and information distribution, Matt researches and...
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Irina Bokova, born on 12 July 1952 in Sofia (Bulgaria) has been the Director-General of UNESCO since 15 November 2009, and reelected for a second term in 2013. She is the first woman to lead the...
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Gordon Borrell is one of the media industry’s leading analysts. He is ranked in the top 2% among Gerson Lehrman Group’s 150,000 consultants worldwide and is quoted frequently in The Wall Street...
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Jim Brady is the CEO of Spirited Media, which operates the news platform Billy Penn in Philadelphia, and intends to expand soon into other cities. Before entering the pure startup world, Jim served...
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Tomas Brunegård is the President of WAN-IFRA and former Chairman of the Board of Sweden's Stampen Group. From 2004 to 2012 he was CEO of Stampen. Previously, he was CEO of Göteborgs-Posten from 1996-...
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David Callaway is Editor-in-Chief of USA Today, responsible for the day-to-day coverage of the news staff on three continents and across all digital and print platforms. He oversees about 300 USA...
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Phil Chetwynd was appointed AFP's Paris-based Global Editor-in-Chief in October 2012. He is responsible for the output of some 1,500 text, photo and video journalists and plays a major role in...
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Rita Chinyoka is a seasoned business executive who brings to Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) over 20 years working experience gained in Zimbabwe and abroad. As AMH Publisher (CEO), she oversees...
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Pichai Chuensuksawadi is the Editor-in-Chief of The Post Publishing, which publishes the Bangkok Post, Post Today (Thai-language business daily), M2F (Free daily tabloid) and Student Weekly....
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Liam Corcoran is NewsWhip's Social Media Editor. Used by some of the world's leading digital newsrooms, NewsWhip's technology tracks the spread of millions of stories, videos, and other content...
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Randy Covington is director of the WAN-IFRA Newsplex Training Centre at the University of South Carolina. He also is on the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and...
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Zohar Dayan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wibbitz, a technology that automatically produces videos from written articles. Prior to Wibbitz, Dayan founded several start-ups and consumer facing...
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Daniel Dessein was born in Tucumán (Argentina), in 1973. He is the president of DYN news agency, vice president of ADEPA (Argentina´s Press Association), regional vice president and member of the...
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Ken Doctor is an analyst with a ringside seat at the greatest story ever told about the global news media industry. Fully employing more than 35 years of experience across a wide range of media, he's...
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Ekrem Dumanlı is the editor-in-chief of the Zaman daily, one of Turkey’s largest newspapers with a daily circulation of approximately 1 million. He was detained by police on Dec. 14, 2014, apparently...
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Chris Edwards joined The Gazette Company in May of 2009. He oversees the sales and marketing effort for all products at The Gazette Company, including The Gazette, KCRG-TV9 and all digital...
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Deniz Ergürel is a technology journalist and social entrepreneur. He is currently the R&D Director of Zaman Media Group in Turkey. He leads a small team to foster innovation in the newsroom by...
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Lou Ferrara is the vice president for sports, business, interactive and entertainment news at The Associated Press. He is spearheading efforts to automate certain text content, including quarterly...
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Alanna Gombert is CEO of Gombert Consulting, a full service digital media consulting agency and she is Co-chair for the IAB Programmatic Council. Prior she was Head of Digital Sales and Strategy at...
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Born in 1963, Ulrik Haagerup is the Executive Director of News at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Winning the Cavling Prize in 1990 and awarded The Order of the Dannebrog in 2012, Ulrik stays...
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Ferial Haffajee is Editor-in-Chief of the highly rated South African Sunday newspaper City Press. She assumed the editorship in 2009 after successfully steering the investigative Mail & Guardian...
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Mark Halperin is co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, which leads Bloomberg’s political and policy coverage, including news, analysis, commentary, narrative, data analytics and more across all...
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John Heilemann, co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, has covered politics, business, and their intersection for twenty-five years in America and abroad. A regular contributor to MSNBC's Morning...
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Chris Hendricks has been Vice President, Interactive Media at McClatchy since 1999. He joined McClatchy in 1992 as Advertising Manager, Marketing for The Fresno Bee, and the following year...
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Steve Hills has made a career out of creating successful customer-focused innovation. During his tenure, Steve has developed an extraordinary record of innovations – most successful and some not. He...
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Lars Hordnes has worked with digital advertising since 1996 with companies such as The Yellow Pages, Scandinavia Online, 24/7 Media and Amedia. His competencies are digital sales, sales...
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Born in France, Dutch and living in Belgium, Fred Hurkmans joined NewsMaster in 2013. NewsMaster is a successful content marketing agency and his former employer the Rossel Group ...
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Jeff Jarvis is professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of “Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New...
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Douglas Jehl is foreign editor of The Washington Post, overseeing all news coverage outside the United States. He directs a distinguished staff that includes 17 correspondents in 15 foreign bureaus....
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Johann is managing director of styria digital one, the advertising arm of Austria´s number one digital publisher regarding reach. He heads a team of 60 technical developers, sales reps and engineers...
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Robert Johansson manages the daily operations of AdMarket for Schibsted Sweden and one of his key tasks is to make their advertising more data-driven. He develops best practices for inventory control...
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Cathrin Kahlweit is the Correspondent for Central Eastern Europe at Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she covers Ukraine, Hungary, Austria, Slowakia, Slowenia. Cathrin has been an editor at Süddeutsche...
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Thomas Kent is deputy managing editor and standards editor of the AP, responsible for standards of fairness and accuracy across the organization. He is currently leading a series of ethics projects...
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Larry Kilman is the Paris-based Secretary General for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the global organisation representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000...
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Anders Kring is the Head of Berlingske Media LAB. He is a former games producer who have moved through Newscorp's NDS and Zmags, before coming in on Berlingske Media as head of digital development...
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Chris Lee became President of Deseret Digital Media (DDM) in 2013 after previously serving as General Manager of DeseretNews.com and Publisher of the Deseret News from 2010 to 2012. With CEO Clark...
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Elisa Lees Munoz is the IWMF’s Executive Director. She is responsible for identifying strategic opportunities and programmatic development and fundraising.Before joining the IWMF, Munoz was executive...
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Caroline Little is president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, the industry’s largest trade organization. Prior to being named president in September 2011, she served as CEO, North...
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Alex MacCallum is an assistant editor at The New York Times, a position she has held since August, 2014. In this role, Ms. MacCallum is in charge of leading the newsroom team that is dedicated to...
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Mr. McDowell, former commissioner and senior member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has been an industry and government leader on a multitude of complex issues in the communications...
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Amy Mitchell is director of journalism research for the Pew Research Center. She is responsible for the center's research related to news and information, including the annual State of the News Media...
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Andrew Nachison is a writer, journalist, digital media analyst, strategist, futurist, entrepreneur, adviser and explorer. He’s founder of We Media (www.wemedia.com), a digital media company and...
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A digital media executive with a measurable track record in creating, rethinking and managing major news organisations on three continents (Asia, Europe and North America) through a mix of print,...
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Tom Negrete has been focused on moving The Sacramento Bee toward personalization and leveraging reader data to improve how his newsroom serves its readers. Tom has cultivated and leveraged...
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Bill Nichols is POLITICO's Editor-at-Large and has played a senior role with the publication since its founding in 2007. He was POLITICO's managing editor from 2007 through 2012 and currently is part...
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Miriam Grut Norrby joined Schibsted in 2012 as an Investment Manager at Schibsted Growth. A business unit within Schibsted Media Group that invests in, and manages a portfolio of, fast...
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Anders Nyland (born 1975) has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Bergensavisen (Bergen City Tabloid) since 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of the Akershus Amtstidende from 2006 to...
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Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye has over 10 years experience as an investigative journalist on different beats like politics, crime, business, health and environment. Ogunseye, who is the first female...
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Dickens Olewe is a Kenyan journalist. He was the Digital Content Manager at the Star Publications where he lead the setting up of the newspaper's website and guided the digital strategy. Olewe is the...
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Professor Robert G Picard is a world-leading specialist on media economics and government media policies. He was formerly based in the Media Management and Transformation Center at Jönköping...
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Don Podesta is the manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy. Formerly he was an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post,...
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Julie Posetti is an award-winning Australian journalist and academic. A former news editor, presenter and political reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Posetti is...
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Shailesh Prakash is the Chief Information Officer of the The Washington Post. He is a member of the Post’s central executive team and runs the engineering groups for all aspects of the Washington...
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Jennifer Preston joined Knight Foundation in October 2014. Previously, Preston was an award-winning journalist for The New York Times for almost 19 years, with broad experience as a digital...
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Leo Prieto pioneered the internet industry in Latin America with ImageMaker, a company he founded in 1996 at age 16, that later became an award-winning web development agency working with some...
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Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is a free expression advocate who works at the nexus of media, activism and technology, with a particular interest in the Middle East. Dr. Radsch has spent her career...
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Lee Rainie is the director of internet, science and technology research at the Pew Research Center. He gives several dozen speeches a year to government officials, media leaders, scholars and...
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Gilles Raymond is the CEO & Founder of News Republic, publisher of news application for smartphones, tablets, and watches. Federating more than 1,000 signed publishers worldwide such as...
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Marcelo Rech, 55, President of the World Editors Forum, is the first Editorial Vice President for the RBS Group, one of the leading media groups in Brazil. With its HQ in Porto Alegre, southern...
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Maria A. Ressa is the CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler, a social news network which uses a hearts and minds approach to news through a unique mood navigator. Rappler combines the best of...
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Henk Rijks works as Digital Strategy Director, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has worked for global brands like l’Oreal, Danone, Philips, Shell, P&G, Gucci, as well as digital agencies...
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James G. Robinson (@JamesGRobinson / akazelig.com) is the Director of Analytics Innovation at the New York Times, where he helps discover new ways to leverage audience insights as part of the company...
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An author, journalist, researcher and media critic, Tom Rosenstiel is one of the nation's most recognized thinkers on the future of media. Before joining the American Press Institute in January 2013...
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She is a Brazilian lawyer with 15 years of experience in Internet and intellectual property law and policy. Previously, Carolina was a Project Director at New America Foundation’s Open Technology...
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Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (www.icij.org) in Washington, an organization that brings investigative reporters from around the world to...
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Vivian Salama is Baghdad bureau chief for The Associated Press. For more than a decade, Salama has worked as a television and print journalist across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia....
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Javier is Managing Partner of Bird & Bird LLP office in Madrid and Head of the Information Technology, Commercial and Dispute Resolution groups in Spain.Javier advises a wide range of Spanish and...
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Vivian Schiller is a media and technology executive with over 25 years of experience. Most recently as Global Chair of News at Twitter, in this role Schiller led the company’s strategy for news and...
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Josh Schwartz is Chief Data Scientist at Chartbeat, where he develops infrastructure and algorithms for Chartbeat's new generation of products. In a prior life, he researched machine learning,...
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Juan Señor is a Partner at Innovation Media Consulting Group based in London. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. As a Partner at Innovation he has directed projects all over the world...
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Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., was appointed Counselor of the Department by Secretary Kerry on December 24, 2013. Ambassador Shannon had served briefly as Senior Advisor to the Secretary following his...
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Ben joins WAN-IFRA's team to strengthen its mission of being the knowledge hub for the news media industry. As a leading expert on digital media, he has the task of providing independent advice on...
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In 1998 Tom started in radio as an advertising account executive in Colorado Springs. He moved up to the Denver radio market in 2000, and then worked in television at Univision Colorado, the Spanish...
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Tanya Sichynsky is a Social Media Editor at USA TODAY Sports. Prior to joining USA TODAY Sports, she covered University of Georgia athletics and Atlanta professional teams for the Atlanta-...
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In June 2012, BH Media Group named Tom to its leadership team as the vice president of its new Richmond Group. The appointment occurred shortly after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway acquired the...
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Paul Smurl joined Some Spider in May 2015. The Start-Up is launching and operating multiple identity-based digital brands each anchored by relevant content, community and soon commerce. Smurl ...
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Lockhart Steele is the editorial director of Vox Media, overseeing editorial content across all seven brands published by Vox Media: The Verge, Vox.com, SB Nation, Curbed, Eater, Racked, and Polygon...
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Remco has 9 years experience in programmatic trading & ad exchanges. He worked for several leading companies on both supply and demand side such as Telegraaf Media Groep, Sanoma Media, eBay...
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Jon Steinberg is the Chief Executive Officer of DailyMail.com North America. DailyMail.com is the world’s largest English language newspaper website with over 225 million visitors per month with 75...
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Eamonn Store joined Guardian US as CEO in September 2014. Previously he was President, Agency Development at MEC, a GroupM company. He joined MEC in 2005 as Managing Director, Global Solutions and...
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Sanoma’s Mobile Development Centre was established four years ago to replicate and reuse mobile assets across the Sanoma Group. Headed by Tamás Szépvölgyi, the Centre established a shared code...
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As Senior Vice-President for Adtech, Sorosh Tavakoli oversees all of Ooyala’s advertising technology. Tavakoli was the founder and CEO of Videoplaza, developing the successful advertising platform...
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Chuck Tobin is a partner in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C., office, and he chairs the law firm's National Media Practice Team. A former journalist, Mr. Tobin appears in courts around the...
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Claire Wardle is the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She is also a co-founder of Eyewitness Media Hub. She has been researching UGC, social media,...
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Aidan White is a journalist. He is Director of the Ethical Journalism Network, a global campaign promoting good governance and ethical conduct in media. He was the General Secretary of the...
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Creator of pro-active international media relations and public affairs strategies involving traditional and social media. Emmy-award winning network television journalist. Professional senior staff...
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Troy Young is president of Hearst Magazines Digital Media. In this position, Young oversees the digital content, technology, operations, product, and business development strategies for the magazine...
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Zaffar Abbas is the Editor of Dawn, Pakistan's oldest and most prestigious English language newspaper. This is his 35th year in journalism. During this period he has worked for a number of national...
Date and Location
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01 Jun 2015 - 03 Jun 2015Washington, D.C.USA
Contact information
Christin Herger
Deputy Director, Global Events
WAN-IFRA
Phone: +49.69.240063-286
E-Mail: christin.herger@wan-ifra.org