Anita Zielina
Anita Zielina is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at CUNY’s Newmark J-School in New York City, where her team is responsible for all executive, entrepreneurial and professional development programs. She is the board chair of the News Product Alliance (NPA), and a member of the board of the Online News Association (ONA) and the Austrian Public Broadcaster (ORF).
She brings experience as a senior executive charged with driving digital transformation in several media organizations. The latest was Switzerland’s NZZ Media group, where she was Chief Product Officer and part of the executive management board. Before that, Zielina was deputy editor-in-chief at Stern, the German news weekly, and at Der Standard, a newspaper in Vienna, Austria. She received an executive MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and a Master in Law from Vienna University, Austria. Zielina is an alumna of the JSK fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and a former fellow at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, UK.
Scorched earth. Let's be brutally honest about the state of the news business! Are we doomed?
Every revenue model for news is in serious trouble: Advertising is collapsing. Paywalls work for only some sites. There's not enough charity from foundations or the public to support the journalism we...
A conversation on what new skills will be needed in the newsroom in order to benefit from the potential of AI technologies. The audience will leave with a better understanding of how AI might change r...
Rethinking leadership and developing new leaders in media orgs to manage transformation
Why we need to rethink leadership and develop new leaders in media organizations to successfully manage transformation. How do the culture of leadership and change management have to evolve in media ...
Against a backdrop of staff burnouts, poor working-life balance, lack of professional development and, generally, a lot of frustration, it is urgent to rethink how newsroom culture impacts journalists...
