Advisory Board members

Mark was Editor-in-Chief of Reuters for 11 years, during which time he launched Reuters TV and developed domestic news services in more than a dozen countries around the world. He was subsequently Chief executive of ITN then CEO of Future Plc, a UK-US magazine publisher, and Zinc Media, a UK current affairs TV programme maker.

As a Reuters foreign correspondent Mark was based for many years in Moscow, Berlin and Vienna. He is currently Chairman of Nominet and three media and tech start-ups.

Simon is Regional Editor for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Reuters. He directs reporting and oversees budget, strategy, and security issues. He joined Reuters in 2010 as part of the investigations and enterprise team, editing multiple award-winning series including two Pulitzer finalists.

Between 1995 and 2010 he worked for Time, reporting from more than 50 countries. He has published short stories, and wrote and produced an award-winning satirical movie about aid workers and journalists.

Before taking up his current role in December 2021, Jon Zilkha held a variety of senior editorial roles at the BBC, including Controller of the BBC’s live television news channels and Head of BBC News’ Economics and Business Unit. He acted as Editor of Newshour, edited several other network radio news programmes, and was the deputy editor of Radio 4’s Today programme for 3 years. He also oversaw the most significant overhaul of BBC News’ operations in a generation.

Catherine is an ICJF Fellow currently spearheading an African women journalists project investigating & reporting on Covid19. Previously the senior programme manager with Code for Africa's Academy and Communities initiative, she was the first woman bureau chief and first female news editor of the Nation Media Group & founding editor of the daily newspaper, The Star.

She is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, RIJ fellow at Oxford University & a 1992 IWMF Courage in Journalism award winner.

As Head of Digital Publishing at STV, Scotland’s leading digital media brand, David is responsible for STV’s digital publishing portfolio, including one of the country’s most popular news sites.

Previous roles include Digital Editor at the Herald & Times Group, where he planned and launched heraldscotland.com, and Deputy Editor of the Sunday Herald. 

He has been involved with FNW from its launch in 2014 and is passionate about the power journalism holds to change the world one story at a time.

Donald is an Award-winning Editor with more than 25 years' experience editing National, Regional, Sunday, Daily and Weekly titles across the UK. Currently Editor of The Herald and the Evening Times and Editor-in-Chief at Newsquest Scotland, he oversees a portfolio of 26 Scottish titles.

Donald also serves on the UK boards of the Society of Editors and the National Council for Training of Journalists. He is the Scottish media representative on the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

Google News Lab is a global team dedicated to working with journalists to provide training, collaborate on industry challenges and support innovation in the newsroom. The News Lab forms part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

Before joining Google Matt was a reporter and producer at BBC News where he covered a range of stories including London's preparations for the Olympics, home affairs and multiple elections. 

Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and CEO of The Quint and a Board Member at Oxford University’s prestigious Reuters Institute Of Journalism as well as World Editor's Forum. She used to head Programming at History Channel, was Features Editor at CNN IBN, where she launched the popular CJ (Citizen Journalist) Show, among others. Ritu Kapur has been recognized by Outlook Business as "Woman of Worth 2017 - The Newsmaker".

Rushati Mukherjee is a Producer with BBC Minute India, under BBC World Service. They have written for Feminism in India, The Hindu, Open Magazine, Outlook Magazine, Hindustan Times and Deccan Herald as a freelance art and culture journalist and worked as a Campus Reporter for The Telegraph. They also work as a translator and a poet, and they have been a part of internal Press Teams at some of the world's biggest literary events, including the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Stephen is Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism, English & Communication at Bournemouth University. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters . 

His research focuses on objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on affect, trauma and conflict journalism. He works with the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, chairs the Dart Centre for Journalism & Trauma in Europe and is a trustee of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.