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 ...
Anita Zielina
Anita Zielina is the founder and CEO of Better Leaders Lab. She is also the board chair of the News Product Alliance (NPA) and a non-executive board member of the Austrian Public Broadcaster (ORF).
She was previously Director of Strategic Initiatives at CUNY’s Newmark J-School in New York City, where her team was responsible for all executive, entrepreneurial and professional development programs.
She has experience as a senior executive charged with driving digital transformation in several media organizations. At Switzerland’s NZZ Media group, she was Chief Product Officer and part of the executive management board. Before that, Zielina was deputy editor-in-chief at Stern, the German news weekly, and at Der Standard, a newspaper in Vienna, Austria.
She received an executive MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and a Master in Law from Vienna University, Austria. Zielina is an alumna of the JSK fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and a former fellow at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, UK.
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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