Looking back to look forward at 3 years of innovation funding across the world. A presentation of the main global trends featuring recipients and jurors. Sponsored by Google News Initiative.
Ludovic Blecher
Ludovic Blecher is the head of Google News Initiative Innovation. Previously, he was the director of the FINP, a digital press fund for French publishers backed by Google. Blecher is a journalist and has spent 15 years in the news industry. He was a reporter, then editor-in-chief and executive director of Liberation.fr. He was a 2012 Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and a member of the French Digital Council, an independent advisory commission for the French government.
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