Board, Officers and Members

Board, Officers and MembersRobert Heslop2021-04-21T16:42:15+00:00

Officers

Andrew Dowsett

Andrew DowsettNMC Chairman

Andrew is Chief Operating Officer at PA Media Group and has executive responsibility for Alamy, StreamAMG and Globelynx businesses as well as the Group’s Data Division. Formerly Chief Technology Officer, he continues to oversee all aspects of the company’s technology and operations.
Before joining PA Media Group in 2010, Andrew spent two years as Operations and Technology Director at Bauer Media Limited. Prior to that he held senior leadership roles at leading media companies including EMAP, EMI and Virgin Media Group.

Angela Mills Wade

Angela Mills WadeNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(European Publishers Council)

Angela Mills Wade has been the Executive Director of the European Publishers’ Council since 1991. She is senior consultant specialising in media, advertising, data and internet competition issues with over 25 years’ experience of working with companies, trade associations, lobby groups and other umbrella organisations at the European level. Angela was included on Politico’s ranking of ‘Women who shape Brussels in 2017’.

Michael Giarrusso

Michael GiarrussoNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(Associated Press)

NMC Board Member
Michael is Global Sports Editor at Associated Press and oversees AP’s sports operations and manage more than 100 journalists covering events around the world.

Kate Teh

Kate TehNMC Secretary

NMC Director and NMC Board Member
(Telegraph Media Group)

Kate Teh is an international lawyer with almost thirty years’ experience across a diverse range of specialised fields including news media, copyright and IP, digital and data protection, sports law, news industry regulatory aspects – as well as corporate, mergers and acquisitions and general commercial law. She worked in private practice in Australia, Malaysia, Japan, China and England, before her appointment as Group Legal Director at TMG in 2008. As NMC Secretary she takes the lead on legal and compliance issues and brings particular expertise of sporting organisations, including the Sydney, Beijing and London Olympic games, and the UK Premier League.

Christophe Walter-Petit

Christophe Walter-PetitNMC Treasurer

NMC Director and NMC Board Member
(Agence France-Presse)

Christophe Walter-Petit has been AFP’s lead representative on the NMC for five years and in addition to the officer position of NMC Treasurer, he is AFP’s General Counsel. Since joining AFP in 2012 Mr Walter-Petit has ensured that AFP is at the forefront of battles to ensure that AFP and all fellow NMC members are able to create, use and distribute independent news material at major organised events, such sports matches and tournaments, political gatherings, entertainment shows etc.

Andrew Moger

Andrew MogerNMC Executive Director

Independent Board Member and NMC Director

As a career journalist and business manager, Andrew Moger has been involved in the news industry for more than 35 years. On behalf of NMC Members – news publishers and major news agencies- his role is to engage with sports federations and leagues as well as clubs and their commercial partners, and public policymakers to seek recognition of the importance and value of news content and news business freedoms. He has been based in the Middle East for nearly five years and travels widely to support Members and to speak at conferences.

Other Board Members

Louise Irwin

Louise IrwinNMC Board Member

(PA Media Group)

Louise is PA Media Group’s general counsel and company secretary, responsible for all commercial legal matters within the group. Louise has been responsible for handling sports rights issues at PA for the last 8 years with prior experience in corporate law in private practice.

Doug Wills

Doug WillsNMC Board Member

(ESI Media)

Doug is Managing Editor of the London Evening Standard and The Independent. His role involves working closely with all editorial executives and dealing daily with circulation, advertising and production directors co-ordinating the complex operation of producing daily newspapers and their editorial digital channels.

Ken Mainardis

Ken MainardisNMC Board Member

(Getty Images)

As Senior Vice President, Editorial at Getty Images, Ken is responsible for the global Getty Images Sport, Entertainment, News, and Archival product lines. He oversees the business’ coverage of over 160,000 news, sports and entertainment events every year. Ken began his career in 1995 as an assignments editor for the Reuters News Agency in their London bureau, before taking on the role of Global Sports Editor for Reuters Pictures in 2000.

Robert Hahn

Robert HahnNMC Board Member

(Guardian Media Group)

Robert is Rights & Licensing Director at Guardian News & Media and has 20 years’ experience in content acquisition, commercial distribution and operations support & implementation.

Robin AshtonNMC Board Member

(News UK)

Ciaran O’BrienNMC Board Member

Reach Plc

Alex Bannister

Alex BannisterNMC Board Member

(DMG Media)

Declan Niall

Declan NiallNMC Board Member

(Thompson Reuters)

Declan is the Editorial Logistics Manager at Thompson Reuters. He is responsible for overseeing Reuters logistics at all major sporting and news events, including negotiating T&Cs with the rights owners. He has worked in the media for over 20 years in technical and operational roles.

Gernot Hensel

Gernot HenselNMC Board Member

(European Pressphoto Agency)

Matthias Mahn

Matthias MahnNMC Board Member

(German News Agency – dpa)

Matthias Mahn
Senior Vice President, Head of Human Resources and Legal

Matthias Mahn is one of three managing directors at German News Agency (dpa) and is responsible for the areas of personnel and law. The fully qualified lawyer and attorney has been working for Germany’s largest news agency since 2002 and represents the company in international organizations and strategy forums. Before joining dpa, he worked for several years for the Axel Springer publishing house.

The German News Agency (dpa) was founded in 1949 and is one of the world’s leading independent news agencies. Staff work according to the principles outlined in the dpa statute: independently from ideologies, businesses and governments.

Associate Members

EFE AgenciaNMC Associate Member

(EFE Agencia)

Angela Mills Wade

Angela Mills WadeNMC Associate Member

(European Publishers Council)

Angela Mills Wade has been the Executive Director of the European Publishers’ Council since 1991. She is senior consultant specialising in media, advertising, data and internet competition issues with over 25 years’ experience of working with companies, trade associations, lobby groups and other umbrella organisations at the European level. Angela was included on Politico’s ranking of ‘Women who shape Brussels in 2017’.

Emma Cowdroy

Emma CowdroyNMC Associate Member

(Australian Associated Press)

Emma joined AAP in 2002 after working with legal firms in media, telecommunications and commercial law. Appointed General Counsel late that year, Emma has become an integral part of the agency’s leadership team. She has represented AAP in various forums, including Australia’s Right to Know, the Senate Inquiry into Sports News Reporting (leading to the establishment of the Code of Practice for Sports News Reporting), the Senate Inquiry into Evidence Amendment (Journalists’ Privilege) Bill (resulting in the Journalists’ Shield Laws) and the Independent Inquiry into Media and Media Regulation. Emma graduated with BA/LLB (Hons) from Sydney University in 1997.

Jonathan Birchall

Jonathan BirchallNMC Associate Member

(Reach PLC Regionals)

Mark Stevens

Mark StevensNMC Associate Member

(Stuff)

Andrew Parkinson

Andrew ParkinsonNMC Associate Member

(SNTV)

Andrew is Managing Editor at SNTV. Andrew started his media career back in 1982 at the UK independent radio station Capital, working in both the news and music departments then moving on to re-launch their weekday night news show. Andrew then went on to join BBC Radio sport in 1986 as a producer and then in 1990 had his first taste of television when he joined BSB’s Sports Channel as a reporter; before joining LBC Radio as their Sports Editor in 1993. Andrew has been at sntv since its inception in 1996 and runs now sntv’s global editorial team as Managing Editor.

Georgia-Kate Schubert

Georgia-Kate SchubertNMC Associate Member

(News Corp Australia)

Georgia-Kate is Head of Policy and Government Affairs at News Ltd in Australia.

Secretariat

Andrew Moger

Andrew MogerHead of Secretariat Senior and Consultant

Head of Secretariat Senior and Consultant

As a career journalist and business manager, Andrew Moger has been involved in the news industry for more than 35 years. On behalf of NMC Members – news publishers and major news agencies- his role is to engage with sports federations and leagues as well as clubs and their commercial partners, and public policymakers to seek recognition of the importance and value of news content and news business freedoms. He has been based in the Middle East for nearly five years and travels widely to support Members and to speak at conferences.

Robert Heslop

Robert HeslopPolicy and Communications Advisor

Nicole Courtney Leaver

Nicole Courtney LeaverNMC Event Analyst

Member List

Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Associated Press (AP)

Australian Associated Press (AAP)

dmg media

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

EFE Agencia

ESI Media

European Pressphoto Agency (epa)

European Publishers Council (EPC)

Stuff

Getty Images

Guardian Media Group

News Corp Australia

News UK

Press Association (PA)

Reach plc (national and regional titles)

SNTV

Telegraph Media Group

Thomson Reuters

Member Brands

Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse

Associated Press

Associated Press

Australian Associated Press

Australian Associated Press

Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Deutsche Presse-Agentur

dmg media

dmg media

ESI Media

ESI Media

European Pressphoto Agency

European Pressphoto Agency

European Publishers Council

European Publishers Council

EFE Agencia

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters

The Telegraph

The Telegraph

Stuff

Getty Images

Getty Images

Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group

News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia

Reach regionals

Reach regionals

News UK

News UK

PA Media Group

Reach plc

Reach plc

SNTV

SNTV

Our Supporters

News Media Association

News Media Association

The News Media Association is the voice of national, regional and local news media organisations in the UK – a £5 billion sector read by 48 million adults every month in print and online. The NMA exists to promote the interests of news media publishers to Government, regulatory authorities, industry bodies and other organisations whose work affects the industry.

News Media Works

News Media Works

NewsMediaWorks is an industry group that represents newspapers in the Asia-Pacific region. It seeks to connect its members and subscribers with the world’s best industry practice through an exceptional program of events and information and to promote awareness and understanding of newspapers within the community.

News Works

News Works

Newsworks is the marketing body for national newspapers in all their forms. Its stakeholders are dmg media, ESI Media, Guardian News & Media, Johnston Press, News UK, Telegraph Media Group and Reach. It collaborates with all parts of the industry, including advertisers, agencies and other media, to promote understanding of national newspapers, and their role as newsbrands in the multi-platform world. It aims to celebrate and share the best in research, planning and creative involving national newspapers.