The executives elected to the new Board are Marcelo Benez, executive commercial director, Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil; David Dinsmore, executive vice president, chief operating officer, group operations and platforms, News UK, United Kingdom; Carsten Erdmann, editor-in-chief, digital products, Funke Media, Germany; Frederic Kachar, chief executive officer, Infoglobo, Brazil; Frank Mahlberg, managing director, BILD and B.Z., Axel Springer, Germany; Mapula Nkosi, managing editor, City Press/Media 24, South Africa; Gerold Riedmann, managing director and editor, Russmedia, Austria; Pam Siddall, co-president, Advance Local, United States.
Members of the International News Media Association (INMA) elected 10 new executives to its governing Board of Directors during the non-profit organization’s annual business meeting on Wednesday.
The executives elected to the new Board are:
Marcelo Benez, executive commercial director, Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil; David Dinsmore, executive vice president, chief operating officer, group operations and platforms, News UK, United Kingdom; Carsten Erdmann, editor-in-chief, digital products, Funke Media, Germany; Frederic Kachar, chief executive officer, Infoglobo, Brazil; Frank Mahlberg, managing director, BILD and B.Z., Axel Springer, Germany; Mapula Nkosi, managing editor, City Press/Media 24, South Africa; Gerold Riedmann, managing director and editor, Russmedia, Austria; Pam Siddall, co-president, Advance Local, United States.
The new INMA Board’s term begins on June 1. INMA’s past president Damian Eales, global head of transformation for News Corp, also made note of two additional board appointments made since the last business meeting in June 2022.
Pablo Deluca, director of institutional affairs, Infobae, Argentina, is president of the Latin America Division and Petteri Putkiranta, president, news and feature, Sanoma Media Finland, is president of the Europe Division.
Those who stepped down from the Board are Saarah Survé, director of Sekunjalo Media, INMA’s fourth-ever chair of the Young Professionals Committee and Mariano Nejamkis, general manager of Grupo El Comercio, who stepped down as Latin America Division president late last year.
The INMA Board of Directors is the fiduciary body overseeing the association’s activities worldwide.
The International News Media Association is a global community of market-leading news media companies reinventing how they engage audiences and grow revenue. The INMA community consists of more than 21,000 members at 900+ news media companies in 89 countries.
2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India
Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and
multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.
The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry.
While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately
their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book
printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.
The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.
Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.
Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.
Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.
