Gavin O'Reilly has been elected first president of WAN-Ifra, and Paul Ramadge, editor-in-chief of ‘The Age’, Melbourne, has joined the board of the World Editors Forum in elections held in the peak publishers event in Hyderabad, India. O’Reilly is chief executive Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media, and had been president of WAN prior to its merger with Ifra. Horst Pirker, chairman of Austria-based Styria Media and former president of Ifra, becomes first vice President and is in line for the presidency when O'Reilly's term ends in December 2010. Ramadge and three others – Wolfgang Krach (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany), Reetta Merilainen (Helsingin Sanomat, Finland) and Roman Gallo (Nase Adresa, Czech Republic) – were elected to the World Editors Forum. The WAN-Ifra will hold its annual meeting on June 10 next year, during the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Beirut, Lebanon (June 7-10).