The Evolving Role of Media in Social Progress – 2013 Skoll World Forum
Speakers
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CSO, Center for Investigative Reporting
Before joining the Center for Investigative Reporting, Joaquin Alvarado served as Senior Vice President for digital innovation at American Public Media and Founding Senior Vice President for diversity and innovation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is the Founder of CoCo Studios, which promotes media collaboration and game development for fiber and mobile networks. Joaquin was the Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University.
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Co-Founder and Curator-In-Chief, Upworthy
Peter Koechley is Co-Founder and Curator-In-Chief of Upworthy, a new mission-driven media company dedicated to bringing mass attention to the things that really matter using irresistible social media. Before Upworthy, Peter produced viral media for the advocacy organisation MoveOn.org, was Managing Editor of The Onion (America's Finest News Source) and co-created the Onion News Network. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, son, and dog.
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Founder and President, Pat Mitchell Media
Co-Founder of Connected Women Leaders Forums and Co-Founder, Host, and Curator for TEDWomen
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Co-Founder & CEO, Solutions Journalism Network
David Bornstein is the CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which is working to establish solutions journalism as an integral part of mainstream news. He has been a journalist, focusing primarily on social innovation, for 30 years. From 2010-21, he co-authored the “Fixes” column in The New York Times, which focused on social innovation. He is the author of: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, which has been published in 25 languages, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know.
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President, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Alberto is president of Knight Foundation which promotes informed and engaged communities by funding quality journalism and media innovation, community engagement and the arts.
Alberto is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a newspaper executive in Hartford and New York City before serving as publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald.
He is a member of the boards of PepsiCo, American Airlines, AOL and is a member of the Secretary of State’s Foreign Policy Advisory Committee. He is a former board chair of the World Wide Web Foundation and of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the original Advisory Committee of the PCAOB.
