The State of News

Jesse Angelo is President, Global News and Entertainment, VICE Media Group and oversees three of the company’s five lines of business. As VICE’s most senior strategic and operational content leader, Angelo spearheads the international expansion, growth and content development of the award-winning VICE News division, VICE’s digital channels, and the company’s television business. He joined VICE Media Group in June 2019.

Before VICE, Angelo was most recently Chief of Digital Advertising Solutions for News Corp, as well as Publisher and CEO of The New York Post.

A native New Yorker, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in American History and Literature. He sits on the board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, and co-edited Deadline Artists, two anthologies of America’s greatest newspaper columns.

As NPR’s senior vice president for news and editorial director, Nancy Barnes oversees NPR’s journalism and journalists around the world and across platforms. She leads an award-winning team of journalists and newsroom executives who are committed to excellence, innovation and the highest quality reporting and storytelling.

Barnes has spent nearly 30 years leading high-performing teams in delivering award-winning journalism to the public. She joined NPR in November 2018, after serving as executive editor for Hearst Texas Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle. She developed the Houston Chronicle into a metro paper known for national caliber journalism with deep local roots. Previously, she served as executive editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune Media Company from 2007 to 2013, leading the newsroom to a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting, as well as other national awards.

She began her career as a general assignment and statehouse reporter and has worked at an array of other newspapers from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Barnes has a master’s degree in business administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. She is the president of the American Society of News Editors and is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University.

Molly Wood is the host and Senior Editor of Marketplace Tech, a national radio program and podcast that demystifies the business of technology. She also co-hosts the podcast Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly and is an Ideas contributor at WIRED. Molly has spent two decades covering the tech industry on all platforms and is known as a pioneer in podcasting. She has been recognized for her dynamic reporting by the Webbys, the National Magazine Awards, and is a Gracie Award winner. Prior to joining Marketplace, she was a tech columnist at The New York Times and an executive editor at CNET.