The debate surrounding media literacy is often too focused on the impact of social media platforms (namely Facebook and Twitter) on the one hand, and the ability and responsibility of citizens to eval...
Bertrand Pecquerie
Bertrand Pecquerie has been the CEO of Global Editors Network since March 2011. Prior to this, from 2003, he was the director of the World Editors Forum (WEF), the organisation for editors within the World Association of Newspapers (now merged with IFRA). From 1996 to 2002 he headed World Media Live, a subsidiary of Vivendi Universal in charge of international websites (including Cannes Film Festival and Tour de France), in seven different languages. From 1989 to 2001, he served as CEO of the World Media Network, a press syndicate gathering major newspapers around the globe (including El Pais, La Stampa, Libération, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Standard, Al Ahram, An Nahar, Yomiuri Shimbun, Folha de S. Paulo, and La Nacion). Bertrand was also a lecturer at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.
Live coverage of breaking news is now common for media organisations, with many of them running several live blogs simultaneously which is changing classical storytelling. New live blogging tools ar...
The Global Editors Network (GEN) and the European Journalism Centre (EJC) will announce the 30 shortlisted entries for the 2012 edition of the Data Journalism Awards (DJA). The announc...
