9 червня 2008
O'Reilly Re-Elected President of WAN
Mr O'Reilly, 41, who is Irish, was re-elected President Wednesday by the WAN Annual General Meeting, held during the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Göteborg, Sweden. The events, the global meetings of the world¹s press, drew more than 1,500 publishers, editors and other senior newspaper executives from 113 countries.
As Chief Operating Officer of Independent News & Media, Mr O'Reilly oversees a leading international newspaper group with more than 200 titles in Ireland, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India.
As President of WAN, Mr O¹Reilly has spearheaded a number of global initiatives for the industry, notably creation of the Automated Content Access Protocol to protect intellectual property rights of on-line publishers, and the formation of the News Media Coalition to defend open news coverage of sports and other events. WAN has also undertaken numerous press freedom and industry support initiatives during his tenure.
Fred Arp, Chief Financial Officer of the Telegraaf Media Group in the Netherlands, was re-elected Treasurer of WAN.
New Board Members from 13 countries were also elected Wednesday: Frédéric Aurand, Board Chairman of Groupe Hersant Media, France; Oyungerel Batnasan, Executive Director of the Newspaper Association of Mongolia; Indira Crasnea, Deputy Chief Editor of Mediafax, Romania; Philip Crawley, Publisher & CEO of the Globe & Mail, Canada; Mathias Döpfner, CEO & Chairman, Axel Springer, Germany; Dahlan Iskan, Publisher and Chief Editor of the Jawa Post, Indonesia; Tibor Kovacs, CEO of Nepszabadsag, Hungary; Remzi Lani, Director of the Albanian Media Institute; François Le Hodey, CEO of S.A. Informations et Productions Multimedia, Belgium; Jaime Mantilla Anderson, Director General of Hoy, Ecuador; Veaceslav Perunov, Director of the Association of Independent Press, Moldova; Sinha Ratnatunga, Editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka; Mikhel Reinsalu, CEO of Eesti Pävaleht, Estonia; and Nelson Sirotsky, President and CEO of Grupo RBS, Brazil.
The WAN Annual General Meeting will be held next year on 25 March, 2009, during the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India. Newspapers world-wide are invited to attend the events, to be held from 22 to 25 March 2009.
The Paris-based WAN, the global organisation for the newspaper industry, defends and promotes press freedom and the professional and business interests of newspapers world-wide. Representing 18,000 newspapers, its membership includes 77 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and
11 regional and world-wide press groups.
Inquiries to: Larry Kilman, Director of Communications, WAN, 7 rue Geoffroy St Hilaire, 75005 Paris France. Tel: +33 1 47 42 85 00. Fax: +33 1 47 42 49 48. Mobile: +33 6 10 28 97 36. E-mail: lkilman@wan.asso.fr
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Gavin O'Reilly, the Chief Operating Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, has been re-elected President of the World Association of Newspapers for a third term of two years.