WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers
Vincent Peyrègne has extensive experience in the media industry, with notable positions including Chief Executive Officer of WAN-IFRA, where they led the global conversation on the challenges and opportunities facing the news publishing industry. Vincent also served as a Senior Adviser in the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, where they shaped public policy and acted as the Minister's spokesperson on news publishing affairs. Prior to that, they held various managerial roles in media organizations such as Edipresse Group and Ifra, where they focused on innovation, customer engagement, and increasing user involvement. Vincent Peyrègne's career in the media industry began as a Sales Assistant and Freelance Project Manager in various newspaper publishing companies. Vincent also had military and civil service experience in SIRPA TERRE IMAGE.
Vincent Peyrègne attended the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2022, where they completed an Executive Program focused on Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, from 1986 to 1991, they pursued a Master's degree in business administration with a specialization in media and marketing at Groupe IEA. Beginning in 1980 and concluding in 1986, Vincent obtained a college degree in Economics from Notre Dame des Aydes.
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WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers
WHO WE ARE - WAN-IFRA is the World Association of News Publishers. Our mission is to protect the rights of journalists and publishers around the world to operate independent media. We provide our members with expertise and services to innovate and prosper in a digital world and perform their crucial role in society. With formal representative status at the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, it derives its authority from its global network of leading news publishing companies and technology entrepreneurs, and its legitimacy from its 80 national association members representing 18,000 publications in 120 countries. WHAT WE DO - We believe that business sustainability enhanced by a culture for innovation is the best guarantee for publishers to play their pillar role to advance freedom of expression in open societies. This has been a guiding principle of WAN-IFRA for seven decades of global advocacy and development work. Our mission is twofold. We deliver operational services to our individual members, be it to share knowledge on best practices, solutions to develop their organisation and business or to connect with expertise that helps them find the best solution to prosper in a digital world. We also represent our members as a global trade organisation with human rights mandate, advocating to protect the rights of journalists across the world to operate free media, coaching news media professionals in fragile states with our media development programmes.