Just as the talk will be of the upcoming US presidential race, next May’s World News Media Congress has former Washington Post editor Marty Baron at hand to provide a unique perspective.
Baron is one of the first speakers slated for WAN-Ifra’s Copenhagen event (May 27-29, 2024), alongside Tow Center director Emily Bell, Lucy Kueng, Ulrik Haagerup and Patrícia Mello.
Baron led the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe, before joining the Washington Post ahead of its change of ownership and the combative Trump years. The struggles during this time are captured in his new memoir Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post.
Also on the programme is Emily Bell, professional practice professor and director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School;
Lucy Kueng (strategic advisor, author, speaker and senior research fellow at Oxford University’s Reuters Institute in Switzerland);
founder and chief executive of Denmark’s Constructive Institute Ulrik Haagerup;
and Patrícia C. Mello, a reporter and columnist with Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo.
WAN-Ifra has more speakers to announce and is still looking for those with a successful innovation or news transformation to talk about.
If you can’t wait until next year for your “Scandi fix”, WAN-Ifra’s Newsroom Summit in Oslo is only days away at October 24-25.
Pictured (top): Marty Baron and Emily Bell; (below) Lucy Kueng, Ulrik Haagerup and Patrícia Mello