About Your Host: Anita Zielina is the CEO and founder of Better Leaders Lab. She's also an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she spent the last few years leading all continuing and executive education initiatives. Anita serves as the inaugural Board Chair of News Product Alliance (NPA) and is a…

About Our Guest Candice Fortman is the Executive Director at Outlier Media. She has worked in commercial and non-profit media, leading marketing, engagement, and growth strategy. Candice is a skilled manager with more than fifteen years of experience in team leadership. As the Executive Director of Outlier Media in Detroit, she helps to drive the w…

About Our Guest Jane Barrett has worked in journalism and at Reuters for more than 20 years but jokes that she has had five careers in that time. Her passion is to lead people positively through change and has been at the forefront of some of the industry battles through digital disruption and transformation. She's currently the Global Editor for M…

About Our Guest Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace. His award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. He is particularly interested in the development and practice of leadership in the age of…

About Our Guest: Irving Washington dedicated his career to promoting diversity and encouraging media integrity within media organizations. As a Senior Fellow at KFF (formerly Kaiser Family Foundation), he leads a new initiative focused on identifying health misinformation to improve understanding of critical health news and research and build trust…

About Our Guest: Ros Atkins is a renowned BBC News presenter and newly appointed Analysis Editor. Since 2019, he has spearheaded a video explainer format that has become a global phenomenon with vast audiences on social media and on the BBC's digital, TV and radio channels. Ros has anchored coverage for many of the biggest global stories including …

About Our Guest: Reneé Kaplan, the incoming Director of News at European news channel ARTE, is a highly experienced digital media transformation expert. Before joining ARTE, Renée was the Head of digital editorial development at the Financial Times, where she lead teams working on innovation, new editorial products and much of the FT's digital jour…

About Our Guest: Raju Narisetti’s current role as Leader, Global Publishing at McKinsey & Company, is the latest in a 33-year global career in media and publishing, during which he has created, reimagined and managed major media organizations in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as led from the front in the digital transformation challenges a…

About Our Guest: Before joining AP in 2014 as its Global Business Editor, Lisa Gibbs spent the majority of her career working as a business journalist, which includes a 5 year period as Executive Business Editor of the Miami Herald. After moving to AP and working as the Business Editor, AP soon launched its first ever large scale automation project…

About Our Guest: Shazna Nessa is the global head of visuals at The Wall Street Journal. In this masthead position she is responsible for unique digital experiences and the visual journalism that is created daily by journalists with specialized skills in areas such as data visualization, photography, cartography, 3D, design, and illustration, across…

About Our Guest: Federica Cherubini is the Director of Leadership Development at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She is an expert in newsroom operations and organizational change, with ten years experience spanning major publishers, research institutes and editorial networks around the world. Before working at the Reuters Institu…

About Our Guest: Styli Charalambous co-founded the Daily Maverick in 2009, while navigating massive industry disruption and South Africas turbulent politics. As founding CEO and publisher, Styli helped grow Daily Maverick from a 5 person start-up to now more than 100 full-time staff, reaching 9 Million monthly unique visitors with 20.000 voluntary …

About Our Guest: Graciela Mochkofsky is the dean at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she was previously the executive director of its Center for Community Media, and founding director of its Bilingual Journalism Program. The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is located in Midtown Manhattan. It's the only public J-School…

About Our Guest: Rafat Ali is the CEO & Founder of Skift, the most influential business media & information company in the travel industry, providing news, research, events, and creative services to key stakeholders globally. Previously, he was the founder/CEO of paidContent and ContentNext, which he sold to UK’s Guardian News and Media in 2008, an…

About Our Guest: Paul Cheung leads The Center for Public Integrity, one of the oldest and most diverse investigative nonprofit news organizations in America, as CEO to hold the powerful to account, expose systems of inequality and equip the public with knowledge to drive change. Their reporting has led to hundreds of law and policy changes and forc…

About Our Guest: Hillary Frey is the editor in chief of Slate Magazine, an audio and online destination for smart analysis of news and culture, and the home of Dear Prudence and myriad advice columns. Before joining Slate in June 2021, Hillary was a creator in residence at the Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY, and a graduate of the school's Exe…

About Our Guest In Upasna's role as Product Manager on the Digital News Platforms team at CNN, she works with CNN's engineers, designers, editors, and journalists to develop and optimize the content management technology that delivers breaking news to the world. Upasna has been working in the tech industry for the last 15 years, where she has been …

About Our Guest: Sara Weber, born in 1987, is a journalist, bestselling author, and digital strategist. She majored in journalism and book science and graduated from Germany’s oldest journalism school Deutsche Journalistenschule. She worked as a freelance writer for Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spiegel, among others. As Senior Managing Editor of L…

About Our Guest: Trei Brundrett is a co-founder and the former Chief Operating Officer of Vox Media, where he oversaw the highest priority cross-company initiatives and directed the Design, Technology and Product groups. He now provides strategic leadership, media and technology consulting services to investment firms, media companies and non-profi…