Anita Zielina
Anita Zielina is the Director of Leadership and Innovation at CUNY’s Newmark J-School in New York City. Before that, she was 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. She has recently has been a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, researching and teaching about transformation and leadership in media organizations.
Before that, Zielina was deputy editor-in-chief at Stern, the German news weekly, and worked at Der Standard, a newspaper in Vienna, Austria. She received an executive MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France (2017) and a Master in Law from Vienna University (2006) and is an alumna of the JSK fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (2012).
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...
