Contrary to global news industry’s broad perceptions of a nearing gender equality in journalism, women remain significantly underrepresented in editorial leadership roles and in news coverage, their...
Jane Barrett
Jane Barrett is the Global Editor, Media News Strategy for Reuters. As part of the Editorial leadership team, she has responsibility for new business, from growing output and revenue in audio and fact-checking to modernising journalistic formats and content. Previously, she led the multimedia transformation of the global newsroom to increase Reuters digital output. Before that, she was the business editor for EMEA, started up a financial video service and was a reporter in Italy and Spain.
Outside Reuters she is a trustee of Podium.me, a charity that gets young people into journalism and storytelling through podcasts, and is a board member of the World Editors’ Forum.
Events IJF 2023
We can’t afford for innovation to stall so what are the mechanisms, tools, processes and foresight we need to ensure newsroom innovation continues well into the late 2020s? From new ways of working ...
The news industry invests heavily in its journalism but far less in the leaders who ensure that happens. Over the past couple of years, newsroom leaders have been carrying a triple burden: getting gre...
The pandemic threw all our thoughts about how to run a newsroom out of the window. Journalists around the world adapted overnight to working from home, any dips in production quickly recovered and new...
Diversity and inclusion in media is often the elephant in the room. Everyone cares about equal representation in the newsroom and the inclusion of underrepresented groups in the reporting. Everyone un...
Can XR save journalism? Immersive projects can support local news, build trust, and wait for it... make money
From putting the 2020 Democratic candidates on your desk to exploring one California town's rebuilding progress after destructive wildfires, XR has quickly moved beyond the Snapchat hotdog to become a...
Journalism has always been highly competitive, all of us fighting for the best stories and exclusives. But as the industry faces serious financial challenges, how can news organisations work together ...
We are bombarded with information at all times of the day. What place does long-form investigative journalism have in the digital world? What is the appetite for long reads? From whom? With what impac...
Trust in journalism is in dire straits. Why? In part because many people feel un-represented and that the mainstream media has a progressive, liberal bias which doesn’t reflect their reality. Many m...
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 ...
In March, Google launched the Google News Initiative (GNI), their effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age. The GNI signifies a major milestone in Google’s 15-year commitment to the news...
How the major international news agencies are organizing themselves to play an increasingly important role in the new information ecosystem: from multimedia to AI, a high profile focus on the transfor...
Developing a strategy in large organisations is just the start. How do you drive change across thousands of people with different interests, skills and habits? Should you try to change the culture and...
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