Heading to Atlanta, Georgia, where I’ll have the pleasure to speak at the Digital Media Licensing Association – DMLA conference about news agencies’ photography archives and the huge importance they have for preserving (and later showcasing) history.It’s going to be a very interesting discussion with Getty Images Vice President for Partnerships Cassandra Illidge & Gado Images CEO...

Taking part in the events of EANA – The European Alliance of News Agencies was always about the feeling I got after each conference: full of ideas, hopes and high goals. Now, even more than ever, each conference is even more important to me, considering the fact that I am organising them 🙂 It’s a lot more stressful, I have to admit, but successful EANA Conferences are worth it,...

by Alexandru Giboi Main Insights Authoritarianism has become one of the most misused words in today’s power play. It’s thrown around in debates, often with the goal of silencing opponents rather than for actually describing reality. I’m not going to give you the definition of the word. You can find a good one here. Instead, I want to talk about how I see it being used...

Zilele trecute, în cadrul Congresului CEPIC Centre of the Picture Industry de la Juan-les-Pins, am avut ocazia să vorbesc despre un subiect foarte important pentru societatea democratică: nevoia ca marile companii din domeniul AI să respecte principii etice și morale atunci când folosesc conținut pentru antrenarea AI. Am avut onoarea să moderez o discuție extrem de interesantă, cu...

Framing the Truth – Fighting War Disinformation Through Image VerificationMonday 12 May | 15:00 – 15:45• Panel Sponsored by: EANA – The European Alliance of News Agencies• Moderator: Alexandru Ion Giboi• Speakers: Eric Baradat & Yuliia Ovsiannikova (Ukrinform)How do photojournalists verify the truth in real time, especially in the chaos of war? Following our keynote, this...

The challenges presented by the new digital era and artificial intelligence for the „traditional” media, the difficulties of combatting misinformation and the spread of fake news, and the moves that news agencies must make, as a source of news for all media channels, in order to adapt, correctly and fairly, to this new order, were discussed, during the 3rd day of the Delphi Economic...

It was very interesting and a great opportunity to meet and discuss yesterday with the Vicepresident of Bulgaria, Ms Илияна Йотова – Iliana Iotova. I took the opportunity to suggest increases of wages for the journalists working for public media like БТА / Bulgarian News Agency and also discussed disinformation and the need for building media literacy as a basis for...

The Global Media Congress kicked off in Abu Dhabi today. Very interesting event, focused on decyphering the future of media. Happy to have been invited to attend a series of closed-doors limited-attendance Media Labs with global stakeholders. Congratulations to the organizers, the Emirates News Agency – WAM – وكالة أنباء الإمارات – وام . Looking forward...

Cooperation is one of the ways to drive forward the evolution of media. I’m happy to see EANA members benefiting from each other’s experience and looking towards the...

PA Media Group comprises a diverse portfolio of specialist media companies, spanning news & information, technology and communications services. Its flagship brand, PA Media, is the UK and Ireland’s national news agency. Alongside PA Media, the Group is also the parent company of Alamy, a stock imagery business; Globelynx, a broadcast technology company; Sticky, a digital marketing agency;...