MACMA’s "Interactive Keynote Leadership Forum"

Why 2025 is the Year of Optimism!

Description:
Join Almar Latour, CEO of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal, as he shares his vision for 2025 and why, despite its challenges, the media and publishing industry should look to the year with great optimism. Gain strategic insights into how the disruption and pressures facing the industry will create new opportunities and ultimately shape its future. This thought-provoking session will explore how innovation, adaptability, and leadership can drive success in a rapidly evolving landscape, making 2025 a pivotal year for growth and progress.

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Speaker:

 

ALMAR LATOUR

Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Chief Executive Officer, Dow Jones

Almar Latour is publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones, a world-leading news and business information services company.

A journalist-turned-business leader, Almar combines a passion for news and technology with rich global experience and an entrepreneurial drive. Under his leadership, Dow Jones has doubled digital subscriptions and achieved record profits and revenue, while safeguarding the Wall Street Journal’s reputation as one of the world’s most-trusted news organizations.

Almar has an extensive track record of building successful news media businesses in the digital age. He oversaw the creation of the Barron’s Group, quadrupling the group’s digital audience at Barron’s and MarketWatch, and led the highly successful modernization of The Wall Street Journal’s website during the global financial crisis, setting the stage for the Journal’s first million digital subscriptions. Almar also led the development of The Wall Street Journal in Japan, Korea and China.

Almar has worked on three continents and has been stationed as a journalist in Brussels, London, Stockholm, New York and Hong Kong. Among a wide range of topics, he has reported on Central and Eastern Europe, technology and the rise of mobile phones, the Nordics and the Baltics as well as numerous mega-mergers. In addition to being a reporter, he has served as a bureau chief in New York, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal online, and the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones in Asia-Pacific before being appointed the Journal’s Executive Editor.

Almar regularly discusses issues including the business of media, press freedom, global affairs and journalism in the era of generative AI. He started as a news assistant in Washington, D.C.

He is a native of the Netherlands and lives in New York City.

 

 

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