Ingeborg Volan, Audience Director of Dagens Næringsliv, Norway, and Dmitry Shishkin, outgoing Digital Development Editor of BBC World Service, UK, were accepted onto the board of the World Editors Forum at a meeting in Oslo.
“Both Ingeborg and Dmitry are skilled digital news leaders who bring a depth of international and practical newsroom knowledge to our board at a time when world events demand we take action to protect our industry and promote its importance,” said Dave Callaway, President of the World Editors Forum. “We welcome their talents and strategic insights and look forward to putting them to work.”
Through the board, Shishkin’s considerable experience in newsroom transformation will remain accessible when he becomes Chief Content Officer of @CultureTrip in January. Culture Trip is a global hyper-growth startup operating in travel, media and entertainment.
Volan, a respected digital pioneer, replaces Helje Solberg who has recently been appointed News Director of the Norwegian state broadcaster NRK, one of the top editorial positions in the country. “We thank Helje for her tireless efforts and look forward to staying in touch as she goes on to great things,” said Callaway
ABOUT THE WORLD EDITORS FORUM The World Editors Forum is the community for editors and newsroom executives within WAN-IFRA. It is focused on building trust in quality journalism, supporting newsroom transformation and increased diversity, and promoting and defending press freedom.
In 2018, the World Editors Forum has been highlighting the development of agile, efficient and sustainable newsrooms, that can help organisations understand and better engage with the audience - to help organisations monetise content. In the past month, the Forum hosted:
two sold-out newsroom study tours: one to Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, the other to Oslo and Sweden.
The 2018 Newsroom Summit in Oslo in October for newsroom managers and strategists focused on audience engagement, personalisation and organisation.
As part of our commitment to rebuilding trust in news, the World Editors Forum held a scoping workshop to identify the challenges around science and health reporting. With WAN-IFRA's press freedom department, the World Editors Forum is occupied by increased violence against journalists and drawing attention to the impunity for perpetrators of these crimes.
For the first half of 2019 the World Editors Forum will focus on:
The 26th annual World Editors Forum, which will take place in Glasgow, 1-3 June, under the umbrella of the 71st World News Media Congress and 3rd Women in News Summit. The theme for the event is Newsbrands. The Audience. And the Gap Between and will focus on using the strength of newsbrands and how to rebuild trust and to connect to audiences who don’t always share our love and respect for journalism.
The annual Trends in Newsroom Report, which will be published in April 2019.
A programme to address science in the newsroom. In an age of disinformation and bad actors, how do newsrooms ensure trust in the science and health content they publish - particularly since many specialist reporters are no longer in the newsroom?
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