Global Editors Network
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| Established | 01 March 2011 |
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Key people
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Peter Bale, President Bertrand Pecquerie, CEO Paul Steiger, Treasurer |
| Subsidiaries | GEN Training & Consulting |
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Employees
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10 |
| Website | globaleditorsnetwork |
The Global Editors Network (GEN) is the leading organisation for editors-in-chief and media company executives committed to media innovation and sustainable journalism, empowering newsrooms through a variety of programmes designed to inspire, connect and share. The organisation is a community of more than 1,300 Editors-in-Chief and 3,900 media innovators from all platforms. 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. 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. 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.
GEN was established to respond to the increasing risks journalism faces, 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. It is a nonprofit organisation, financed through grants, membership, participation to the annual GEN Summit, sponsorship and donations.
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. 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.
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