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Who

OUR PEOPLE

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THE BOARD (Conseil d'Administration)

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ARALYNN MCMANE (president/director)

Aralynn McMane is an educator, journalist and longtime advocate of purposeful linkages between news media and young people. After a career in newspaper journalism and journalism education, she served as director of media development then executive director for news literacy and youth engagement at WAN-IFRA. With Jo Weir, she co-founded the Global Youth & News Media Prize in 2018. She is co-author of News Literacy and News Publishers, a 7-part report and database, and a frequent speaker on news/media literacy issues. She is a permanent resident of France and holds U.S. citizenship.

 

WENDY TRIBALDOS (vice president)

Wendy Tribaldos  is a journalist, educator and museum studies specialist. She is co-author of News Literacy and News Publishers, a 7-part report and database, and a prize-winning practitioner of youth engagement strategies for news media. She is the author of several books updating Panamanian history, the most recent of which sheds new light on the crucial role of secondary students in its development.   While at La Prensa in Panama, she developed several award-winning initiatives, including highly effective and enjoyable introductions to news for children. She holds Panamanian citizenship. 

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ALEXIS DU MESNIL DU BUISSON (treasurer)

Alexis du Mesnil is the director for France of accounting and tax management for the German SARIA group, which focuses on European level circular economy. Specialized in auditing and consulting, he has served clients from both the private sector and French administrations. Most recently, he was CFO in Central Africa for the global Newrest food group. He has always been interested in news media and education. For example, he has volunteered in many associations to help disabled people, including by reading the newspaper and educational books to blind youth. He is currently based in Paris and holds French citizenship.

 

KRISTEN DAVIS

As former IT & innovation director at The International New York Times, Kristen Davis has years of practical experience using technology to advance businesses and protect organizations around the world.  In 2016 she founded CinqC.co, based in Paris, where her work spans the technology ecosystem, from multinational organizations and innovation labs to start-ups, using technology to help enterprises and societies evolve. She is also chairwoman of the U.S. board of APOPO, a global nonprofit using scent detection animal technology to detect landmines and tuberculosis to save lives. She holds British and French citizenship.

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JOSH LAPORTE

Josh LaPorte is a veteran advisor on independent media development and press freedom. Recently he led projects for Internews and the International Press Institute that supported media development and media literacy initiatives across Central and Eastern Europe. He directed media development at the European Journalism Centre (2006 to 2020) with programs across Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America that used an advocacy-strengthening approach focused on youth media literacy, journalist safety, diversity/accountability reporting and access to independent information.  A permanent resident of Belgium, he holds United States citizenship.​

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SPECIAL ADVISERS, 2024-2026

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MELISSA FALKOWSKI (USA) is an award-winning teacher and coach for student journalists. A board member of the US National Scholastic Press Association, she spent more than 20 years teaching all levels of secondary English at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, and serving as faculty adviser to the Eagle Eye News student newsmagazine, the Aerie yearbook and the Artifex literary magazine. Along with The Guardian US, Eagle Eye News was co-recipient in 2018 of the first Global Youth & News Media Prize in recognition of their joint coverage of the March for Our Lives demonstration that year in favor of gun control. In 2019, she was named National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year by Columbia University's Scholastic Press Association for her courage during and after the shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty at her school on February 14, 2018, and her ability to "inspire her student staff to report through the tragic aftermath." She is co-editor with Eric Garner of  We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists. She has degrees in English education (Florida Atlantic University ) and journalism (Kent State University).

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CRISTIANE PARENTE DE SÁ BARRETO, Ph.D. (Portugal, Brazil) is a global consultant, researcher and columnist on media and education.  For the 2021-2022 school year, she is a visiting professor at University of Brasília (UnB) and IESB University Center. She is managing director at Comunicação e Educação (Portugal and Brazil) and has conducted studies and programmes for universities, media and NGOs all over the world. She is the author of the Educação & Mídia for Gazeta do Povo since 2012 and, since 2021, commentary for Observatôrio de Midia of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Previously, she coordinated 60 news in education programmes for the Brazilian publishers association, Associação Nacional de Jornais, and ran a newspaper for children for O Povo, where she was a journalist. Her doctorate is in media education from Universidade do Minho (Portugal) with an emphasis on media literacy.

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SANJA HUNYADI (Slovenia) has been interested in youth and media since 1994 when she worked as a coordinator for the IFJ/WAN Coordinating Centre for Independent Media in the Balkan Region where she developed, implemented and manage regional media projects that significantly influenced the present independent media landscape in the SEE region. Later she continued to work as a project manager for the Baltic Media Center in Denmark, multimedia editor at SloveniaOnLine - SiOL Telekom and as an journalist and editor at MMC, a multimedia center of RTV Slovenija. Now she is a consultant for digital media, digital marketing and design thinking and the owner of HASH.SI, a media and information technology consultancy.

 

MARC-ANTOINE GUET (France) is a journalist assisting with our work in the Basque region of Southwest France. He teaches journalistic learning at the INSEEC business school in Bordeaux and ISJF school of journalism in Nantes. He reports Basque region news for La République des Pyrénées, works with the Biarritz-based surf magazine Hotdogger and previously was a reporter then editor at Surf Session magazine. He also volunteered with a school health project in several African countries. Marc-Antoine holds a master’s degree in sports journalism from École Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris (ESJ)

 

KARLY COX (Hong Kong) spent 15 years at the South China Morning Post immersed in journalism for and by youth with award-winning results. Previous to that, she was a commissioning editor for secondary level English language textbooks at Pearson Ltd. She has a degree in law from Durham University (USA) and is now an editor at Tatler Asia.

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JEANNE EMMANUELLE HUTIN (France)  is a longtime believer and protagonist in the need to attract young people to news as early as possible. That activity has been in the context of her work at Ouest France, where she has been a journalist and editorialist since 1997, as well as on a national and International scale. She was a key player in developing a special subscription scheme for 18-to-25 year olds, a way for young people to work with the editorial department, a digital platform to create news media at school and a specific website for the 18-25 year olds that reached 2 million unique viewers per month, eventually introducing all of those projects to international colleagues.

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DAVID MCMANE (France) serves as a a volunteer editor for Global Youth & News Media. Now retired, he has worked the copy desks of the International Herald Tribune (Paris, 22 years) with short stints at  Indianapolis Star and the Austin Statesman (USA). Before that, he spent 20 years as the front page editor at the Watertown Daily Times (New York, USA)

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​FIFI SCHWARZ  (Netherlands) is an expert on news literacy and an educator focused on innovation.  She is former director of the Dutch Nieuws in de Klas (news in education) programme and founder of the website  http://www.newsliteracy.nl. With Nico Drok, she is the author of  Jongeren, nieuwsmedia en betrokkenheid ( 2013), a study of Dutch youth news media engagement and citizenship. She currently publishes three blogs: on teacher professionalization, on news literacy and citizenship, and on reading and language.

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RAYMONDE GRISWOLD (France) has spent her career doing journalism and helping journalists perfect their craft. She has been a reporter in the United States, France and throughout the Middle East. She spent 12 years managing both national and international continuing education programs at France’s premier journalism school, le Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journaliste before becoming director of the European Journalism Centre (2001 to 2005), which produced seminal media literacy studies in the Medici project during her tenure.

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JOSEPHA MILLER (USA) became interested in youth-news media relations when she worked in Paris with a previous worldwide prize for newspaper publishers that created news in education and other programs for children, teenagers and the youngest adults. She is now managing director at Montague DeRose and Associates, San Francisco, California, and Richmond, Virginia.

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CHRIS VAN HALL  (Netherlands) is an expert on media literacy and journalism in education. He has been working as a strategic adviser and manager in the field of information and communications technology and media literacy for international and Dutch nonprofits as well as the Dutch education ministry since 1998. He has developed educational products and trained teachers in media literacy and citizenship in Europe and is part of an international network on media literacy.

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