Ponentes | The Newsroom Summit 2019
The Newsroom Summit 2019
Editor in Chief and CEO, VG - Verdens Gang AS, Norway
Gard Steiro is a Norwegian journalist and editor. In 2016 Steiro was appointed editor-in-chief and CEO of VG, Norway´s leading digital media house. With 2.5 million daily users cross platforms VG reaches half of the population in Norway. Steiro started as a reporter. The last ten years he has held several leader positions in different media companies. From 2011 to 2015 Steiro was chief editor of Bergens Tidende, the largest regional newspaper in Norway. Steiro is a member of the management team in Schibsted Media that owns and runs a large number of newspapers and digital startups in Scandinavia.
EVP, Schibsted Media Division, Norway
Siv Juvik Tveitnes was appointed EVP, News Media on 1 January 2019. She comes from the position of COO Schibsted Media. Previous positions include CEO Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftonblad, Finance and Staff Director at Bergens Tidende, Project director at Media Norge, Business Developer at Bergens Tidende AS and Managing Consultant at Bekk Consulting AS. She has been a board member of Sparebank 1 SR-Bank. Tveitnes holds a Master of Science, Business Administration and Management from the University of Bath and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Bergen.
Editor in Chief Digital, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany
Head of newsroom, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Editorial Development, Aftonbladet, Sweden
Editor in Chief and CEO, Agderposten, Norway
Head of data journalism, Bayerischer Rundfunk (ARD), Germany
Uli Köppen leads the AI + Automation Lab at Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) – the public-service radio and television broadcaster of Bavaria, in Germany – and co-leads BR Data, the investigative data journalism team. Uli was also a 2019 Nieman Fellow at Harvard and MIT, where she focused
her studies on journalism automation and algorithmic accountability reporting. She oversees a team of journalists, coders, and designers specializing in investigative data stories, interactive storytelling, and experimentation with new research methods such as bots and machine learning. She is a founding member of butterland, a group dedicated to slow journalism whose projects include reporting done with victims of Turkey’s clampdown on press freedom. Together with her colleagues, she has won several awards including two CIVIS Media Prizes and a Philip Meyer Award as part of the first non-American team.
Editor-in-Chief and CEO, ARA, Spain
News Editor, VG, Norway
Editor for publishing strategy and visual journalism, Dagens Næringsliv, Norway. WEF Board member.
Ingeborg Volan is editor for publishing strategy and visual journalismat Dagens Næringsliv, Norway’s most prominent business newspaper. Previously, she held the position of director of audience engagement. She’s an online news veteran who early saw the possibilities of reaching audiences better online. She’s very passionate about understanding news users and letting their needs shape journalism. Among other roles, Ingeborg has previously worked as the first head of social media at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and lead the NRKbeta innovation crew. She’s also taught digital journalism at the Norwegian Institute for Journalism, been head of newsroom innovation at Adresseavisen and president of the Norwegian Online News Organization.
Vice President for Development, Amedia, Norway
Jostein Larsen Østring is the Vice President for Development in the Norwegian media company Amedia.
Amedia is Norway's largest local media company with 64 newspapers. Østring leads Amedia's editorial development team, which is responsible for readership analysis and developing editorial strategies.
The team of editoral development works with all parts of the editorial process, including journalistic content, organizing the newsroom, data driven journalism, and video.
Østring is a former journalist and News Editor at Nordlys, a regional newspaper based in Tromsø, Norway.
Social Media editor and Digital Product development, Badische Zeitung, Germany
Head of Storytelling, Tortoise Media, UK
Ravin is an innovative executive producer/journalist with 10 years experience working in news and digital media. Previously, he was the executive producer for BBC Stories – the BBC’s first digital current affairs strand, where he built an audience engagement team for Digital Current Affairs. Ravin also worked as a senior broadcast journalist for BBC News and created the first Snapchat documentary for BBC Panorama as well as developed a number of new storytelling formats for BBC News and Current Affairs.
He was identified as an “Emerging Leader” on the first BBC News Leadership programme. Before joining BBC, Ravin led the team behind NewsPoint, a digital newsgathering operation in London. His responsibilities there included finding the best user-generated video and picture content for breaking news stories, reporting on international news using social media content and acquiring and managing rights to content for clients. He also led the team that manages rights for UGC content on YouTube, helping users monetise their video when used for broadcast and across news websites.
He was previously the editor of the award-winning citizen journalism site Blottr.com and has used social media for newsgathering to cover the Arab Spring, the London Riots, the Oslo shootings, the Mumbai bomb attacks, the Syria conflict, the Boston Marathon bombings and various other breaking news events around the world.
Ravin holds an MA in International Relations from the Department of War Studies, King's College, London and a bachelor's degree in Politics & Sociology (BSc).
Digital transformation, content strategy and innovation consultant, WEF Board Member, UK
Dmitry is an expert in digital transformation, content strategy, and innovation. He worked for 21 years at the BBC in London where he was responsible for developing and implementing the BBC’s digital editorial offer for 40 non-English foreign language new services. Originally from Moscow, Russia, Dmitry worked in various editorial-development roles for the digital section of BBC News. These roles required liaison between editorial, product and strategy teams in order to drive innovation and develop new ways of reaching audiences, increasing engagement across the world and, crucially, driving culture change is newsrooms. He is an experienced digital leader in content creation, specialising in growing audiences across the world, driving editorial changes in newsrooms and adapting the way organisations work in digital space, especially around content innovation and audience engagement.
After his years at the BBC, he joined Culture Trip, a startup operating at the intersection of media and travel. He is now pursuing new adventures. Dmitry's main area of expertise is on the intersection between Editorial, Organisational, Strategy and Product sectors.
News Director, NRK (Norwegian public service broadcaster), Norway
Editor in chief and CEO, Børneavisen, JP/Politikens Hus, Denmark
Editor, Børneavisen, Denmark
Partner Solutions team leader for News Partnerships across EMEA, Facebook, UK
Award-winning journalist, photographer and writer, Switzerland
Jacopo is an award-winning journalist, photographer and writer. His work focuses on environmental and social reporting, with particular expertise on reporting from the field. He reported across Asia, Europe, North and South America, as well as the Arctic and Antarctica. His contributions have been published on National Geographic, GEO, The Huffington Post, Repubblica, Vanity Fair, El Pais, Deutsche Welle, and Science among other publications. He lectures on science and environmental reporting at the Erice International School of Science Journalism, and gives workshops on media skills for scientists since more than a decade. He is now working at the Venice International University within the Quest EU H2020 funded project on science communication. He recently published the workbook "Communicating Science through the Media".
Deputy Director, Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA, France
Since joining WAN-IFRA in 1997, Valérie has accrued more than 20 years of experience as a media journalist. Currently, she is a team member of WAN-IFRA's Global Advisory division where she works with the Advisory Team in leading global consulting projects. She is also the Programme Lead for WAN-IFRA's top global conferences including: World News Media Congress and our Digital Media Event Series. She has contributed to numerous research reports, including Alternative Revenue Streams for Publishers. As part of her research, Valérie interviewed numerous publishers who had found success discovering new business models - whether its through events, e-commerce, video or marketing services - Valérie has experience taking the pulse on what generates revenue for publishers.
Chief Marketing Officer, United Robots, Sweden
Cecilia Campbell is a Swedish media journalist with over 20 years experience reporting on the news publishing industry internationally. She is the CMO of Swedish tech start-up United Robots, based in Malmö. Her work at United Robots includes advising publishers on how to free up reporter time and drive revenue through newsroom automation. Previously she worked for WAN-IFRA, co-leading the reader revenue group and authoring the 2018 report Engaged Readers Don’t Churn – Retention Lessons for Digital Subcriptions.
Head of Leadership Development, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, UK
Federica has spent the past decade exploring, learning and working in the news industry, on a global scale. Her career has been focused on understanding the processes and dynamics of journalism, connecting the dots between people, disciplines, departments, projects, cultures, and figuring out new ways of working. She recently rejoined the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford as Head of Leadership Development. She made the move from Hearken, where she was an Engagement Manager. Federica was Audience Projects Editor at Condé Nast International, working on audience growth, best practice and knowledge sharing between editorial, data, product and commercial teams of the CNI's global portfolio. Specifically, she has worked on newsletter strategies and editorial initiatives that drive audience loyalty. Previously, she was part of the Digital News Project team at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford and worked on several projects, exploring the future of journalism and newsrooms around the world the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
Executive Director World Editors Forum, WAN-IFRA, UK
Cherilyn Ireton heads up the World Editors Forum, the global network for editors within WAN-IFRA. She is a seasoned newspaper professional, having spent more than 20 years on South African newspapers, as journalist and editorial manger on the country's leading titles, the Sunday Times and Business Day. She rose to be Chief Operating Officer of BDFM Publishers, the business media joint venture between Pearson, owners of the Financial Times, and Times Media in South Africa which published Business Day newspaper, the Financial Mail magazine and Summit TV. She relocated to the UK in 2005 and owned an ran a London-based media consultancy, Presslinks, which advised a variety of international organizations and foreign governments.
Senior Editor of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Storyful, UK
Editorial insights administrator, Dagens Næringsliv, Norway
VP Marketing, Stibo DX, Germany
Director of Insights & Editor-in-Chief, WAN-IFRA, Germany
Dean is Director of Insights and Editor-in-Chief of WAN-IFRA, he is responsible for coordinating all activities related to the organisation's array of multimedia publications. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the news publishing industry, much of that time spent researching, analysing, identifying and ultimately reporting about global media developments.
Head of Editorial Development, Sydsvenskan, Sweden
Director, Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association (MBL), Norway
Randi S. Øgrey is the Director of the Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association (MBL) the leading media trade organization in Norway which counts approximately 324 member businesses, of which 172 are newspapers, 21 printing offices, 26 distribution companies, 24 TV companies, and 13 advertising groups. The Association’s objectives are to help build a diverse, independent and economically healthy industry; to secure editorial independence, and to initiate common initiatives in cases where the members deem it necessary and useful.