Vincent Baby new Elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the IPTC
By Iptc, PRNETuesday, June 14, 2011
LONDON, June 15, 2011 -
Vincent Baby of Thomson Reuters has been elected Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the International Press and
Telecommunications Council (IPTC), succeeding Stéphane Guérillot of
Agence France-Presse, the IPTC announced Wednesday following its
46th annual general meeting held in Berlin.
“IPTC holds a very special place at the crossroads of journalism
and technology. Its standards and expertise are essential to the
seamless interchange and user experience of news throughout the
media industry”, said Baby. “It is a privilege to chair such an
organisation and to follow in the footsteps of Stéphane Guérillot,
who has led it with distinction for the past six years.”
Baby, 47, is Vice President, Media Asset Owner at Thomson
Reuters, where he manages media content and technology assets.
Before joining the company in 2005, he worked as a correspondent
and desk editor for Agence France-Presse from 1985 to 2000 and as a
content and marketing executive for CNET Networks from 2000 to
2004.
During the annual general meeting, Andreas Gebhard, 35, Managing
Editor at Getty Images, was elected to the IPTC Board for the first
time, directors representing Agence France-Presse, dpa, Keystone,
Korea Press Foundation and Thomson Reuters were re-elected. The
position of Chairman of the Board is non-executive and renewable
annually.
About the IPTC:
The IPTC, based in London, UK, is a consortium of the world’s
major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors. It
develops and maintains technical standards for improved news
exchange that are used by virtually every major news organisation
in the world.
Information on all IPTC standards such as the family of
G2-Standards - NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2 and SportsML-G2 -, NewsML 1,
NITF, IIM, the Photo Metadata standards and the NewsCodes together
with a list of existing members and information on how to join is
available at
Media contact:
Michael Steidl, IPTC Managing director
Phone: +44(20)3178-4922
Email: office@iptc.org
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