George Brock
George Brock is consultant, speaker and author. He consults in newsrooms and speaks where people debate journalism, disruption and misinformation.
He worked as a newspaper journalist in Yorkshire and at The Observer and, for many years, at The Times (of London) where he was Managing Editor, Foreign Editor and Saturday Editor.
Former Professor of Journalism, he ran the journalism school at City, University of London 2009-2014.
George is the author of “Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age“. In this book he talks about the fact that the digital technology is demanding transformative change. Journalism needs to be rethought on a global scale and remade to meet the demands of new conditions.
Edward Roussel
Edward Roussel is Chief Innovation Officer at Dow Jones, responsible for identifying areas of new opportunity, with a focus on startups and relations with Silicon Valley companies. Edward joined Dow Jones in June 2013 as head of digital product development, overseeing projects including the redesign of The Wall Street Journal’s website and apps. Edward recently reached a global agreement with Google and News Corp/Dow Jones.
Before joining Dow Jones, Edward worked at the Telegraph Media Group in London for seven years. As Executive Editor, Digital, he headed the Telegraph’s website and mobile products, playing a central role in reorganizing the newsroom to place digital journalism at its core.
Edward worked at Bloomberg from 1992 to 2004, playing a key part in the company’s rapid editorial expansion. He oversaw global financial coverage, leading a team of more than 130 journalists. In earlier roles at Bloomberg, Edward was bureau chief in Brussels, Paris and London.
Frédéric Filloux
Frédéric Filloux is a French journalist and an entrepreneur. He is the creator of Deepnews.ai, a project aimed at surfacing quality journalism from the web by using machine learning algorithm, a project that he started as a Knight Fellow at Stanford.
He is also the editor of the Monday Note, a newsletter/blog that covers digital business models and technology since 2007. The Monday Note reaches between 30,000 and 60,000 media professionals each week and the newsletter has 13,000 subscribers.
Since 2018, he is an associate professor at Sciences-Po Journalism school. During the academic year 2016-2017, Frédéric was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, along with seventeen other media professionals selected for the program.
Frédéric is a board member of Reporters sans Frontières (Reporters without Borders).
Pierre Louette
Pierre Louette is the President and Director General of the French media group Les Echos-Le Parisien and one of France’s leading experts on new communication networks. He is also President of the publishers’ group, Alliance de la presse d’information générale (APIG).
Pierre is well-placed to address the issues of innovation, risk taking and experimentation in this virtual discussion, to be held on 20 April next. Before becoming head of Les Echos-Le Parisien in March 2018, he was Deputy CEO of the telecommunications giant Orange, which he joined in 2010. He has served as audiovisual advisor to the French government, and is author of the report, “The Information Superhighways.”
Across his long career, Pierre has been both in conflict and cooperation with “GAFA”, the technology monoliths Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. In his new book, “Giants and Men” (Des Géants et des Hommes), he acknowledges the companies have created remarkable things and have changed the way we live, but believes their dominance now calls for increased regulation.
