Board, Officers and Members

Board, Officers and MembersRobert Heslop2023-01-13T09:31:42+00:00

Officers

Andrew Moger

Andrew MogerNMC CEO

NMC CEO and company 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 was based in the Middle East for nearly five years and travels widely to support Members and to speak at conferences.

Andrew Dowsett

Andrew DowsettNMC Chair

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.

Robert Hahn

Robert HahnNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(The Guardian)

Robert is Director, Business Affairs & Platform Partnerships and has 20 years’ experience in content acquisition, commercial distribution and operations support & implementation.

Michael Giarrusso

Michael GiarrussoNMC Vice-Chair

NMC Board Member
(Associated Press)

NMC Board Member
Michael is Deputy Head Global Newsgathering and oversees AP’s sports operations and manage more than 100 journalists covering events around the world.

Louise Irwin

Louise IrwinNMC Company Secretary

NMC Director and NMC 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 Treasurer

NMC Board Member

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.

Christophe Walter-Petit

Christophe Walter-PetitChef de Mission

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.

Other Board Members

Jonathan Lockwood

Jonathan LockwoodNMC Board Member

(Getty Images)

As Senior Vice President, Editorial at Getty Images, Jonathan 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.

Robin Ashton

Robin AshtonNMC Board Member

(News UK)

Nicki Schroeder

Nicki SchroederNMC Board Member

Reach Plc

Nicki is Director of Editorial Legal Services at Reach Plc, where she leads the complaints and litigation and pre publication legal teams. With more than 20 years in the legal media sector, she began her career in private practice where she had a thriving defamation and copyright defendant practice, before moving in-house. She has since worked in-house in both the broadcast and print sectors, advising on compliance, intellectual property and business affairs.

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.

Emma Cowdroy

Emma CowdroyNMC Board 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.

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’.

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.

Gary Payne

Gary PayneNMC Board Member

(The Telegraph)

Candice Murray

Candice MurrayVP Editorial

NMC Director and NMC Board Member
(Shutterstock)

Candice Murray is Vice President of Editorial at Shutterstock, where she oversees the operations and growth of the company’s global editorial business. She leads an internationally distributed team in delivering customer and contributor experience. Candice and her team partner with a global contributor network to capture the news in real time, and produce live assignments for entertainment clients, including the BAFTAs and the SAG’s. She has over 20 years of expertise in the content and editorial space, and has a successful track record of organically growing new business for companies in publishing, media and licensing. Candice was instrumental in establishing exclusive content relationships with Condé Nast, A+E and LIFE. Prior to Shutterstock, Candice was the Executive Director of Content Licensing at Condé Nast.

Associate Members

Enrique Rubio Ezquieta

Enrique Rubio EzquietaNMC Associate Member

(EFE Agencia)

Enrique Rubio has been the UK & Ireland Bureau Chief of the Spanish News Agency – Agencia EFE since 2020. Previously, he held that same role in France, the Middle East (in Cairo) and Morocco. He has been a foreign correspondent for 20 years, having also worked for media outlets such as “El País” or “El Mundo”.

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.

Nicki Schroeder

Nicki SchroederNMC Associate Member

(Reach PLC Regionals)

Nicki is Director of Editorial Legal Services at Reach Plc, where she leads the complaints and litigation and pre publication legal teams. With more than 20 years in the legal media sector, she began her career in private practice where she had a thriving defamation and copyright defendant practice, before moving in-house. She has since worked in-house in both the broadcast and print sectors, advising on compliance, intellectual property and business affairs.

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.

Gernot Hensel

Gernot HenselNMC Board Member

(EPA Images)

Secretariat

Andrew Moger

Andrew MogerCEO and Head of Secretariat

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 was 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

Nicole has over 30 years’ video newsgathering experience planning and executing coverage of a wide variety of major news stories from the release of Nelson Mandela to the breakup of Yugoslavia, the financial crisis in Japan and a plethora of international sports events. She has worked closely with the NMC since its

inception to challenge restrictive controls on the news media and to future-proof the ability of journalists across all disciplines to freely and independently cover events of major public interest.

Member List

Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Associated Press (AP)

Australian Associated Press (AAP)

dmg media

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

EFE Agencia

ESI Media

EPA Images

European Publishers Council (EPC)

Stuff

Getty Images

Guardian Media Group

News Corp Australia

News UK

PA Media

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

EPA Images

European Publishers Council

European Publishers Council

EFE Agencia

EFE Agencia

Getty Images

Getty Images

Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group

News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia

News UK

News UK

PA Media Group

Reach regionals

Reach regionals

Reach plc

Reach plc

Shutterstock

Stuff

SNTV

SNTV

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters

The Telegraph

The Telegraph

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.