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Future of Media Business
Digital technologies have been reshaping the publishing and media industry for more than 20 years now. Many incumbents have viewed them as a threat. But embracing new technologies can both strengthen existing business models and help to create new ones, as this conversation between Almar Latour (Dow Jones) and Martin Weiss (Hubert Burda Media) illustrates.
Martin Weiss
Hubert Burda Media
Martin Weiss is CEO of Hubert Burda Media. Before taking over from Paul-Bernhard Kallen in January 2022, he directed BurdaInternational, which bundles the company’s worldwide activities, and BurdaPrincipal Investments, the company’s growth capital arm dedicated to the technology and media industry.
Almar Latour
Dow Jones
Almar Latour is Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He has led Dow Jones through a period of sharp growth, transformation and realignment.