The State of News
NewFronts 2020 Town Hall
Jun 24, 2020 / 2:30 PM EST
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Don’t miss this panel of experts and journalists as they discuss the state of news gathering and consumption during a moment in history fraught with political, economic and human upheaval.
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 an award-winning team of journalists and newsroom executives around the world and across platforms.
arnes has spent nearly 30 years leading high-performing teams in delivering award-winning journalism to the public. Before joining NPR in 2018, Barnes served as the executive editor for Hearst Texas Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle. From 2007 to 2013, she served as executive editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune Media Company, leading the newsroom to a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting, as well as other national awards.
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.