Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, will continue as president of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) until June 2011, following today's vote by members of the organization, which represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and more than 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries.
Martin Kall, management board chairman of Switzerland-based Tamedia AG, was elected first vice president, succeeding Horst Pirker, former chairman of Austria's Styria Media Group. Pirker was slated to become president in January 2011, but stepped down upon resigning from Styria last month.
Tore Stangebye, CEO of Norway-based Berner Gruppen, was re-elected Treasurer.
O'Reilly, who became WAN-IFRA president last December following the merger of the World Association of Newspapers and IFRA, was due to step down in December 2010, but his term was extended by a unanimous vote of the WAN-IFRA annual general meeting.
As Independent News & Media CEO, O'Reilly oversees an international media group with interests in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Northern Ireland and South Africa.
WAN-IFRA also elected six new board members: Wolfgang Bretschko, Styria Media Group board member; Valdo Lehari Jr., CEO and publisher, Reutlinger General-Anzeiger Verlags-Gmbh & Co., Germany; Alessandro Bompieri, managing director, Newspaper Publishing Division, Il Sole 24 Ore SPA, Italy; Tanvir Ahmad Tahir, executive director, All Pakistan Newspapers Society; Michael Arpas, representing the Slovak Publishers Association; Oleksander Chovhan, president, RIA Media Corp., Ukraine.
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