World Editors Forum elects new board members

3 Sep 2012

Eight chief editors from major newspapers in Kenya, India, Finland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia were elected on Sunday, 2 September 2012, to the Board of the World Editors Forum, the organisation within the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) for senior newsroom personnel.

The Annual General Meeting of the WEF, meeting on the eve of the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Kiev, Ukraine, elected:

Joseph Odindo, group editorial director of the Nation Media Group in Kenya and one of Africa's leading journalists. He oversees all editorial operations of the group, which includes ten newspapers, two television stations, three radio stations and websites in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Sanjay Gupta, editor-in-chief of the Hindi language Dainik Jagran, a daily in India, and CEO of its parent company, Jagran Prakashan. The paper's 37 editions across 11 states are read by some 55 million people daily.

Markku Mantila, who has been editor of Kaleva in the Finnish city of Oulu since 2009 and was a winner of a Finnish Grand Prize for Journalism last year.

Lisa MacLeod, assistant editor of The Financial Times. She joined the newspaper in 2003 and has worked on the company's strategic newsroom integration and reorganisation projects.

TN Ninan, editorial director of the Business Standard Ltd in India, and currently president of the Editors Guild of India. He has headed a number of Indian business publications, bringing about substantial change and achieving rapid growth at all of them.

Wong Chun Wai, executive director and group chief editor of The Star, Malaysia's English language daily. He is also the current chairman of the Asia News Network, the largest Asian umbrella group of more than 21 news media organisations, and sits on the country's Anti Corruption Commission.

Patrick Daniel, editor-in-chief of the English and Malay Newspaper Division of Singapore Press Holdings. He is a director of SPH Magazines, SPH UnionWorks and Tamil Marasu Ltd, and also chairs two SPH subsidiaries - Straits Times Press and Shareinvestor.com Holdings. He is a graduate of University College, Oxford, and has a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Kylie Davis, the National Real Estate Editor at News Ltd. in Australia and one of the country's most highly regarded women in media. Davis is a strong proponent of the value of hyperlocal journalism. She has had a successful career at a variety of Australian media companies.
The WEF Board currently has 21 members.

For more, go to www.worldeditorsforum.org.

Source: WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18 000 publications, 15 000 online sites and over 3000 companies in more than 120 countries. The organisation was created by the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, the research and service organisation for the news publishing industry.

Go to: http://www.wan-ifra.org