Exactly 15 years ago, Nic Newman wrote the very first comprehensive report on the state of product management in news organisations. Today, we want to take stock and analyse the successes, failures, a...
Anita Zielina
Anita Zielina is an experienced digital media executive, strategic advisor and board member with a focus on digital transformation, modern leadership and management, and product and business strategy. She is the founder and CEO of Better Leaders Lab, a Do-and-Think Tank for good leadership and smart management that acts as a boutique consultancy firm and leadership development hub. Anita is an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in NYC and serves as a non-executive board member at the Austrian Public Broadcaster (ORF), as well as the News Product Alliance (NPA). She holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD and a Masters in Law from the University of Vienna and is an alumna of the JSK Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University and the Reuters Institute Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford.
Events IJF 2025
As artificial intelligence reshapes the media landscape, newsrooms face both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges. How can product methodologies serve as a framework to ensure that A...
Four experienced journalists take an honest look at their own failures and setbacks. Instead of success stories and best practices, this session is about the things that haven't worked out in recent y...
The COVID-19 crisis has prompted radical and accelerated thinking about the purpose of work. It also forces us to ask what good newsroom leadership looks like beyond managing hybrid meetings. Because ...
In this panel, one of the most evident and intriguing trends in modern publishing will be unpacked - deeper integration of content and product disciplines. In digital publishing, 'jobs to be done' (pr...
Continuous learning in the workplace must become the norm if individuals and organisations want to stay ahead. This places more demand than ever on journalism leaders to take on a new role they might ...
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...
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