Building the best newsroom for your readers and your business
Trust
Business models
Newsroom Innovation
Leadership
How to create a high-performance newsroom and lead the transition
In this Master Class, we will tackle the big issues of the Newsroom Initiative:
- Trust: What it means and how to get it (also how to lose it).
- Business models: Know what your business model really is and how to get behind it.
- Innovation: Generative AI in the newsroom and reaching new audiences.
- Leadership: What it really means to lead a newsroom and influence strategy.
Join some of the most experienced and innovative working journalists and news leaders in the world, plus academics and leadership experts, as they share what we still need to do to accelerate newsroom transformation and face multiple challenges.
In four sessions, you’ll get a mini-MBA in newsroom management and come away with ideas and tools you can apply tomorrow to the challenges you face today.
Speakers
Jamil Anderlini
Editor-in-Chief
Politico Europe
Belgium
Jane Barrett
Global Editor, Media News Strategy
Reuters News Agency
United Kingdom
Thibaut Bruttin
Assistant Director-General
Reporters Sans Frontières
France
Nicole Carroll
Professor of Practice
Arizona State University
former editor-in-chief of USA Today
United States
Gordon Crovitz
Co-CEO
NewsGuard
United States
Álex Herrera Díaz
Subdirector
20 minutos.es
Spain
Ken Herts
Chief Operating Officer
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
United States
Don Hudson
Editor and Chief Content Officer
Newsday Media Group
United States
Sally Lehrman
CEO
The Trust Project
United States
Zach Leonard
Global Chief Operating Officer
The Independent
United Kingdom
Sir Will Lewis
CEO-designate, The Washington Post Co, Co-Founder, The News Movement
United Kingdom
Lisa MacLeod
Director and Head of EMEA
FT Strategies
United Kingdom
Ignacio Martínez de Albornoz Tarongi
Director of Business Development
Henneo
Spain
Juan Munoz
Founder
Pamplonanews
United States
Niketa Patel
Senior Director, Executive Programmes
City University of New York
United States
Aron Pilhofer
Associate Professor
Temple University
United States
John Thornhill
Innovation Editor
Financial Times
Founder of Sifted
United Kingdom
Anita Zielina
Founder
Better Leaders Lab
Austria
Robert Zilz
Head of Data
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Medien
Germany
Curated by
Peter Bale
Lead, Newsroom InitiativeInternational News Media Association (INMA)
Topics
Trust: What it really takes to defend it or gain it and how easy it is to lose. What we can learn from members of the public about who and what they trust. And why.
Business: Journalism is a business whether it's for-profit or non-profit. Understand how your business works and what you can do to create a sustainable operation.
Innovation: What innovation really looks like and what works. How to experiment. How to kill projects that don’t work and grow the ones that do. Incubating ideas. How not to be afraid of AI and to put it to use in your newsroom and news products.
Leadership: How to think of yourself as a leader at any level – whether you’re an individual contributor or you have direct reports. How to influence others upwards and downwards. How to overcome your cynicism and genuinely lead by example.
Learning: What can we learn from other industries to improve journalism, accelerate digital transformation, and face the challenges of AI and competition? How to break out of the publishing bubble and think about what other industries can teach you.
Healthy newsrooms: How to motivate your teams and look after them in a climate characterised by precarity and pressure. It’s a business risk, not a luxury.
Trust: What it really takes to defend it or gain it and how easy it is to lose. What we can learn from members of the public about who and what they trust. And why. Business: Journalism is a business whether it's for-profit or non-profit. Understand how your business works and what you can do to create a sustainable operation. Innovation: What innovation really looks like and what works. How to experiment. How to kill projects that don’t work and grow the ones that do. Incubating ideas. How not to be afraid of AI and to put it to use in your newsroom and news products. Leadership: How to think of yourself as a leader at any level – whether you’re an individual contributor or you have direct reports. How to influence others upwards and downwards. How to overcome your cynicism and genuinely lead by example. Learning: What can we learn from other industries to improve journalism, accelerate digital transformation, and face the challenges of AI and competition? How to break out of the publishing bubble and think about what other industries can teach you. Healthy newsrooms: How to motivate your teams and look after them in a climate characterised by precarity and pressure. It’s a business risk, not a luxury.
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