Madhav Chinnappa UK is a senior executive consultant who has worked at the intersection of news, technology, AI and sustainability globally for more than two decades in both the commercial and public service sectors. He has extensive experience with journalism funding and sustainability having launched the DNI Fund, the GNI Innovation Challenge programme and the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund while at Google. He has worked in the news industry since 1994 - first in the launch team of Associated Press Television (APTV), a year in M&A at United News & Media and spent over 9 years at BBC News, latterly as Head of Development & Rights. He is currently leading a thought leadership event series around AI and news for the Thomson Foundation.
Ali McClintock Warner is an experienced B2B editor and journalist. Her work includes content refreshes for websites; scripts for social films; the development of straplines and sales materials for campaigns spanning corporates to new startups; news and HR content for company intranets; award entries and business case studies; first-person features to position leaders and CEOs as well as accompanying social posts for X, LinkedIn and Meta.
She has produced content for the chemical, banking, R&D, IT, HR, and marketing sectors. She is a regular writer for Unilever and PPL and a commissioned contributor for newsstand sustainability titles Positive News and The Simple Things.
As a senior lecturer in magazine journalism for seven years at The University of Roehampton, Ali was the proud recipient of the University Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. She now puts the skills she learnt in industry and the classroom to good use as an industry trainer, running feature writing and tone of voice workshops for in-house comms teams.
Media specialist, educator, speaker, and writer Mary Hogarth, MD of The Magazine Expert Ltd, has more than 25 years of industry experience and has written three books and numerous magazine articles.
Her consultancy specialises in new title launches, relaunches, audience intelligence, editorial solutions, effective business strategies, and multiple revenue streams. Mary is also working on a PhD investigating alternative business models for specialist publications at Bournemouth University, where she has a fractional post.
David Spencer has worked in radio since the 1990s and in recent years has helped Reuters launch a new global podcast and overseen the launch of various podcasts with News UK. He currently works as an audio consultant as well as a lecturer and teacher on radio and podcasting and journalism.
Arion McNicoll is an award-winning journalist, editor and podcaster. Arion helped launch The Week Unwrapped podcast and is a co-host of Today in History with The Retrospectors – Rethink Audio's flagship daily history podcast. Arion is also a senior editor at The Week magazine, where he produces the publication's daily Morning Report.
Currently CEO at the PRCA (www.prca.org.uk), the world's largest professional association for public relations and communications companies.
Previously CEO at FIPP and held senior roles at the BBC, Gulf News and more.
Simon Owens is a DC-area journalist who covers the media industry. His newsletter follows trends in both the Creator Economy and traditional media, and he also hosts The Business of Content, a podcast about how publishers create, distribute, and monetize their digital content.
Simon got his start as a newspaper reporter covering government and schools in Virginia. He later held editor positions at PBS’ Mediashift and US News & World Report. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Politico, Scientific American, Forbes, Harvard’s Nieman Lab, The Next Web, Daily Dot, PBS.org, and US News & World Report.
In addition to his journalism work, Simon’s conducted PR, content marketing, and social media strategy for dozens of organizations that include Fortune 100 companies, startups, and trade associations.
Andy is the Co-Founder of the Bluestripe Group which includes, New Digital Age, Digital Women, The Trinity Lunches, Foresight, Bluestripe Communications and Bluestripe Events.
Before Bluestripe, Andy held senior roles at The Drum, MediaBriefing and Centaur Media
