New board members elected at WAN-IFRA’s annual meeting
WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers) has announced the election of ten new members to serve on its Supervisory Board of Directors and the Board of the World Editors Forum (WEF). Victoria Svanberg was also appointed Chair of the WAN-IFRA Media Freedom Board.
Four media executives were elected to the WAN-IFRA Supervisory Board: Max Garrido, Managing Director of Corporacion Bermont in Spain who Chairs WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum; Masahiro Maruyama, President and CEO of The Mainichi Newspapers Group Holdings Co. and President of NSK (Nihon Shinbun Kyokai), the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association; Pål Nedregotten, Executive Vice President of Amedia in Norway and Chairman of the Board of MBL, the Norwegian Media Business Association; and Victoria Svanberg, Acting President of NWT Gruppen AB in Sweden.
Victoria Svanberg appointed Chair of the WAN-IFRA Media Freedom Board
Victoria Svanberg will also serve as the new Chair of WAN-IFRA’s Media Freedom Board, which oversees the strategy of the WAN-IFRA Media Freedom division, including providing approval and maintaining oversight on WAN-IFRA media development activities.
WAN-IFRA provides advocacy and capacity building initiatives such as skills development training, coaching, mentoring, networking and peer-to-peer support activities to media professionals in 21 countries.
World Editors Forum strengthened by six new board members
Also, six new members were elected at a meeting of the World Editors Forum: Phil Chetwynd (Global News Director, AFP, France), Liz Corbyn (Deputy Director Media & Head of News, EUROPEAN BROADCASTING UNION, Switzerland), Elske Schouten (Deputy Editor in Chief, NRC, Netherlands), Deirdre Veldon (Deputy Editor in Chief, The Irish Times, Ireland), Jean-Christophe Ploquin (Editor in Chief, Columnist, La Croix, France), and Piotr Stasiński (Deputy Editor in Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland).
The World Editors Forum, operating within WAN-IFRA, is focused on the future of quality journalism, newsroom transformation and defending and protecting press freedom.
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