Global Editors Network

Global Editors Network
Established 1 March 2011
Location
  • Paris, France
Key people
 Cory Haik, President
Bertrand Pecquerie, CEO
Subsidiaries GEN Training & Consulting
Employees
10
Website globaleditorsnetwork.org

The Global Editors Network (GEN) is an international association of over 6,000 editors-in-chief and media executives with the mission of fostering digital innovation in newsrooms all over the world. GEN has three main programmes: Editors Lab, the Data Journalism Awards, Startups for News, as well as an upcoming hub for the international data journalism community. The organisation’s flagship event, the GEN Summit, gathers over 830 participants from 70 countries. The GEN newsletter is read weekly by more than 13,800 subscribers. It is a non-profit, non-governmental association.

Its goal is to empower newsroom leaders to innovate by breaking down the barriers between traditional and new media.[1] GEN also strives to demonstrate the value of data journalism so that information can be gathered and shared to define an open journalism model for the future, and create new journalistic concepts and tools.[2] The GEN Community was launched in September 2014. The GEN Community website enables people to connect, share, compare, collaborate on new media projects. Prototypes from the Editors Lab program and the Data Journalism Awards are also featured on the GEN Community. There are more than 1,600 projects and 3,900 members on the GEN Community. The GEN Community is supported by the Open Society Foundations.[3]

GEN was established to respond to the increasing risks journalism faces,[4] as media must be relevant and constantly innovate. Its role is to gather editors with different knowledge sets and to start a dialogue with engineers, developers and digital innovators. Its founding members were leading editors and top executives at The Washington Post, El País, BBC, Le Monde, Aftenposten, The Guardian, Clarìn, and many other media brands worldwide.[5] It is a nonprofit organisation, financed through grants, membership, participation to the annual GEN Summit, sponsorship and donations.

Mission

GEN's objective is to promote newsroom innovation, foster new storytelling methods, and define the future of journalism by empowering editors-in-chief and senior news executives when working with publishers, media owners and news suppliers, as the delivery of news migrated to digital platforms.[6] Editors on all platforms are confronted with the same challenges in news production. It is more obvious every day that they are members of the same community, all driven by a journalistic imperative and a common goal: how to invent tomorrow's journalism and to make it sustainable.

The senior news executives who founded the Global Editors Network (GEN) are convinced that news producers and newsrooms across all platforms – print, broadcast, online, mobile and wire services – face comparable challenges. The association encourages multilateral cooperation and collaborates with current media development bodies and international journalism associations.

Activities

The GEN Summit conference gathers every year more than 750 editors-in-chief, journalists, data journalists, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs.,[7][8][9] and has become one of the most popular media conferences.[10] This conference also includes the Data Journalism Awards ceremony, one of the main programmes of GEN, along with Startups for News, and the Editors Lab final.

The GEN Summit took place in the following cities:

The GEN Summit 2019 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 19th to the 21st of June.[19]

The Data Journalism Awards, the first international contest recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism.[20] In 2015, a total of 14 winners were selected from a shortlist of 78 by a jury panel led by Paul Steiger from ProPublica.[21] In 2016, 12 winners were chosen among 471 submissions.[22][23] In 2017, 12 winners were chosen among 573 submissions.[24][25]. In 2018, 12 winners were chosen among 630 entries from 58 countries.[26]

The Data Journalism Den is a global hub solely dedicated to data journalism. It is a place built for journalists, coders, designers, experts, consultants, companies, foundations, volunteers, NGOs, and everyone involved or interested in the use and development of data journalism.

The Editors Lab, a worldwide series of hackathons where teams of journalists, designers and developers compete in the development of innovative journalism tools, content and apps. These are hosted by newsrooms all over the world. Past editions were in: Poland,[27] France,[28] Netherlands,[29] Turkey,[30] UK,[31] Spain,[32] Germany,[33] Indonesia, India,[34] and more. The Final occurs during the GEN Summit and gathers the winning teams of each Editors Lab event. The purpose of Editors Lab is to ″break the barriers between the editorial and technical teams.″[35]. The Editors Lab program partnered with Rappler for the sake of providing hackathons for Southeast Asian Nations.[36][37]

Startups For News is an international competition that rewards the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN selects startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content. During the GEN Summit, the winning startups from each category have the opportunity to pitch their work to GEN’s network of media innovators. The startups are also able to showcase their product in a dedicated ‘Startups for News’ area at the GEN Summit exhibitors room. The winner of the Startup For News Final 2015 was SourceRise,[38] and Trint, a transcription company, won in 2016.[39] In 2017, the startup Flourish won, while Urbs Media was a runner-up in the competition.[40]. In 2018, Vigilant won the competition.[41]

In 2018, GEN partnered with the European Forest Institute to launch the pilot project Lookout360°[42], which supports journalists produce 360-degree videos on climate change and people’s lives. Lookout360° is the pilot project of a 6-month immersive storytelling accelerator programme. It combines in-field training and 3-month mentorship to support journalists produce immersive stories with a focus on climate change.

Climate Publishers Network – Ahead of the UN Climate Change Summit (COP21) in Paris, 25 media organisations from around the world created a new publishers network[43] to collaborate on their coverage of climate change. The initiative was coordinated by the Global Editors Network.[44] The Climate Publishers Network (CPN) provided a mutual syndication of articles related to climate change free of charge during the run-up to COP21. Each media organisation was able to re-publish material without having to worry about license fees.[45]

Digital Journalism Massive open online course (MOOC), in French, in conjunction with Rue89 and First Business MOOC. GEN has coordinated three MOOCs since the launch.[46]

GEN Study Tours – Launched in 2013, the study tours programme aims to help discovery and practice sharing between editors.[47]

Board members

The 17 GEN Board Members[48] are top media decision makers from news organisations such as Mic, ProPublica, El País, Clarín, Rappler, Cheddar, Aftenposten, etc.

The President since June 2018 is Cory Haik (publisher, Mic), replacing Peter Bale (former Chief Executive Officer at the Center for Public Integrity)[49], after two years. The previous GEN Presidents were Xavier Vidal-Folch, Deputy Director of El País, and Ricardo Kirschbaum, the General Editor of Clarín.[50]

Bertrand Pecquerie is the current CEO of the association.[51]

References

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  2. ↑ "Médias : création d'un réseau mondial des rédacteurs en chef". Le Monde.
  3. ↑ "GEN Community". Community.globaleditorsnetwork.org.
  4. ↑ "Global Editors Network launches under former WEF leaders". Journalism.co.uk.
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  13. ↑ "GEN SUMMIT 2013". GEN. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  14. ↑ "GEN Works With wochit To Provide Real-Time Coverage - wochit". Wochit.com. 5 June 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  15. ↑ "GEN Summit - 2015-06-17 - Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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  18. ↑ ""Consciously uncoupling": Where does the relationship between publishers and platforms stand now?". Nieman Journalism Lab.
  19. ↑ "GEN Summit 2019". Globaleditorsnetwork.org.
  20. ↑ "Google-sponsored Data Journalism Awards open to entries". Journalism.co.uk.
  21. ↑ "Los 14 ganadores de los Data Journalism Awards". Lavanguardia.com.
  22. ↑ Firestone, David (16 June 2016). "We Won Some Prizes". Fivethirtyeight.com. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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  24. ↑ "Globe Unfounded investigation wins international data journalism award". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  25. ↑ "Data Journalism Awards — The first international awards recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide". Data Journalism Awards. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  26. ↑ "Egypt's InfoTimes wins 2018 GEN award for data journalism".
  27. ↑ "Editors' Lab: "Gazeta Wyborcza" Hackdays". Wyborcza.pl.
  28. ↑ "Editors Lab - Le Parisien Hackdays : les médias à l'assaut de l'Open Data". Leparisien.fr.
  29. ↑ "Tweedaagse EditorsLab-competitie bij de NOS". Over.nos.nl.
  30. ↑ "The Sharq Forum Editors Lab". Globaleditorsnetwork.org.
  31. ↑ "Ideas to improve the news industry from BBC NewsHack". Journalism.co.uk.
  32. ↑ "Una pirámide alimentaria para las noticias del futuro". El Pais.
  33. ↑ "Snowden: Sehr enttäuschend, dass Deutschland Whistleblowern kein Asyl geben will". Sueddeutsche.de. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  34. ↑ "TOI wins Delhi Editors Lab hackathon, enters final". Times of India. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  35. ↑ "Center CEO elected president of global news organization". Publicintegrity.org.
  36. ↑ "WATCH: Rappler, GEN host hackathon for leading media orgs in PH". Rappler. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  37. ↑ "Rappler hosts Manila leg of 4M Asia data journalism training". Rappler. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  38. ↑ "Global editors impressed by startup site matching journalists to on-the-ground international sources". Poynter.org.
  39. ↑ "Trint gewinnt "Startups for News"". Futurezone.at. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  40. ↑ "Flourishing News From GEN Summit - Slush 2018". Slush.org. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  41. ↑ https://medium.com/startups-for-news/and-the-winner-of-startups-for-news-2018-is-vigilant-82d364921020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  42. ↑ "Call for applications : Lookout360° pour apprendre le reportage immersif".
  43. ↑ "How The Guardian and GEN are getting news orgs around the world to share climate change content". Poynter. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  44. ↑ "Powerful alliances pushing for action on climate change, locally and globally - Croakey". Blogs.crikey.com.au. 23 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  45. ↑ "Global news organisations agree to share climate change content". The Guardian.
  46. ↑ "GEN is producing Digital Journalism MOOC in French". Globaleditorsnetwork.org.
  47. ↑ "VR Study Tours". GEN. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  48. ↑ "About GEN". Theage.com.au.
  49. ↑ "Center CEO elected president of global news organization". Publicintegrity.org.
  50. ↑ "The Global Editors Network, le réseau mondial des rédacteurs en chef". Inaglobal.fr.
  51. ↑ "The future of journalism – interview with Bertrand Pecquerie, CEO of the Global Editors Network". Myndset.com.
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