Erik Bjerager re-elected President of World Editors Forum
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Erik Bjerager, editor-in-chief and managing director of the Danish national daily Kristeligt Dagblad, has been re-elected President of the World Editors Forum for a second two-year term.
Bjerager was re-elected on Sunday at the Annual General Meeting of the WEF, held during the organisation’s annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand.
More than 1,500 chief editors, publishers, CEOs and other senior newspaper and news publishing executives have gathered in Bangkok for the 20th World Editors Forum, 65th World Newspaper Congress and 23rd World Advertising Forum, the annual summit meetings of the world’s press.
Marcelo Rech, the Director of Journalism at the RBS Group in Brazil, was elected vice president of the organisation.
Bjerager has served as Editor-in-Chief of Kristeligt Dagblad since 1994. He became Managing Director of the daily a year later. He has been a member of the WEF Board since 2001.
Rech was recently appointed Director of Journalism at RBS, which is based in Porto Alegre in southern Brazil and includes 18 TV stations, two community TV stations, one rural channel, 25 radio stations, eight newspapers and four internet portals. Mr Rech is a former general director of the newspaper division, and a former managing editor of the Zero Hora newspaper.
A full list of WEF Board members can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/wef-board-members
The events can be followed at www.wan-ifra.org/bangkok2013 and on Twitter with hashtags #wnc13, #editors13 and #waf13
The Paris-based World Editors Forum (http://www.worldeditorsforum.org ) is the organisation of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) that represents editors-in-chief and other senior news executives.
WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore and India, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. Its core mission is to defend and promote press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses.
