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Monday, May 31, 2004

"Editors' jobs become more important" with blogs

During the debate following session 1 of the World Editor's Forum today, Mr. Dean Wright, Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, MSBNC.com (see biography below), and Mr Jean-Louis Cebrián, Chief Executive Officer of PRISA Group and EL PAÍS (see biography below), agreed that the newspaper "editor's role becomes more important" in a new media environment in which news can be produced and disseminated through online means such as blogs. Mr Cebrián welcomed blogging and said he sees no obstacle to the emergence of these new forms of media, as long as editors still play an active role in monitoring and directing content.

Jean-Louis Cebrián, Chief Executive Officer of PRISA Group and EL PAÍS: In 1976, Jean-Louis Cebrián became the founding Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper EL PAIS, which began publishing in May of that year. IN 1988, Cebrián was named Chief Executive Officer of EL PAÍS and the PRISA GROUP and Vice Chairman of the Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (SER ), the positions he holds today. From 1989 until 1999, he was Vice-Chairman of SOGECABLE. Cebrián served as Chairman of the International Press Institute from 1986 to 1988.

Prior to the birth of EL PAIS, Cebrián was a founding member of the magazine Cuadernos para el Di?logo and a Senior Editor at the newspaper Pueblo until December 1967. In 1968 he joined the newspaper Informaciones as a Senior Editor and was named Assistant Editor in Chief there in 1969. In 1974, Cebrián was named Director of News Programming at the Spanish television's main channel.

Cebrián is the author of 13 books, including several novels, political studies and a portrait of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He was born in Madrid in 1944 and educated there at the El Pilar School. In 1963, he graduated from the Official Spanish Journalism School. Under the auspices of a grant from the Juan March Foundation, Cebrián also took journalism courses in France and Great Britain. He is a scholar of Philosophy and Humanities at the Complutense University of Madrid. Cebrián is married and the father of six sons.

Dean Wright serves as Editor-in-Chief of MSNBC.com, a leader in breaking news and original journalism on the Internet. He returned to MSNBC.com from AOL Time Warner, where he served as Senior Director of Programming Integration for America Online. In that post, Wright helped direct the integration into AOL of editorial content from Time, Inc. magazines. He also served as Senior Director, Programming and Promotions for Netscape/AOL Web Properties and helped lead the company’s effort to transform Netscape’s browser into a media website.

Wright spent four years at MSNBC.com as Managing Editor for News, helping launch MSNBC.com into the Web's No. 1 news destination by developing the site's original reporting, including coverage of the 1998 elections, the impeachment crisis and the 2000 presidential primary campaigns.

Before his first tenure at MSNBC.com, Wright worked as a reporter and supervisor at the Associated Press Washington Bureau. Over the prior 20 years, Wright held a range of editorial positions at leading metropolitan dailies, including the The Baltimore Sun, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Kansas City Star and The San Jose Mercury News, one of the nation?s first newspapers to go online. Wright began his journalism career in Canada and worked for a number of newspapers there, including The Albertan, The London Free Press and The Toronto Star.

Wright lives with his wife in Redmond, WA

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