Newspaper body WAN-IFRA appoints Christoph Riess as new chief exec
Riess will take up the new position, created by the merger of two industry groups
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International newspaper industry body WAN-IFRA has appointed Christoph Riess as its new group chief executive.
Riess, who has previously worked for media group Bertelsmann AG, will join the group from paper and pre-press supplier Mitsubishi Paper.
He will replace Timothy Balding in the role, who will become the new director general of the organisation.
Balding was formerly chief executive of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) beofre its merger with Ifra in July last year. A new position for Reiner Mittelbach, who was CEO of IFRA, is yet to be announced.
Riess will take up his new role on 1 February.
Read Journalism.co.uk's coverage of the first joint conference for WAN-IFRA , which took place in Hyderabad last month.
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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