FIPP

01 July 2026 Now you know the programme is up, let’s have a real good look at who is actually going to be there in Madrid this October. A former Australian Minister for Communications. The Head of Publishing at the UK’s House of Commons. The Group CIO of The Guardian. The CEO of POLITICO Media Group. The Director of Curation at TED. The CEO of FlightStory. Founders, editors and CEOs from South Africa, Vietnam, the Netherlands, India, and a dozen places in between. And that’s just on stage.

24 June 2026 Flow co-founder and Psychologie Magazine editor-in-chief Irene Smit on paper as editorial strategy and audience loyalty that runs deeper than subscriptions. Irene Smit still keeps two reader messages on her phone. She has had them since the pandemic, when Flow – the Dutch-founded mindfulness and lifestyle magazine she created in 2008 – paused its international edition and readers around the world wrote in to ask when it was coming back.

23 June 2026 As Chief Digital Officer of ITP Media Group and Executive Director of Complex MENA, Charlotte Cijffers sits across two very different media businesses in one of the world’s fastest-moving markets. Here, she makes the case that the industry’s next competitive edge isn’t reach… but editorial authority. Charlotte Cijffers has spent her career moving between media businesses with very different identities – Dazed Media, Harper’s Bazaar, ITV – and has drawn something distinct from each.

23 June 2026 With 26 years across African sports media, Gary Rathbone has watched a continent transform from a TV footnote to one of the most significant untapped media markets on the planet. Ahead of the FIPP World Media Congress, he makes the case for why the global industry needs to pay attention.

18 June 2026 With the sun setting on the platform era, FIPP’s latest AI report, launched today, aims to act as a guiding light for publishers to help negotiate the path ahead. Built on three years of data, direct reporting and interviews with global leaders in publishing, platforms and regulation, the report is an indispensable roadmap to navigating discovery and distribution in the AI monopoly age.

11 June 2026 Ricky Sutton has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to using new technology. “I was the first guy at News Corp with a laptop and a mobile. I’ve just always been someone who wants to try the new toy. It’s an instinct,” he explains. “Accepted wisdom is that journalists do words, and others do numbers, but I love both. “For me there is a fascination that I can do so much more with this laptop. I can be a fully-fledged journalist anywhere.

11 June 2026 The Manera founder and former AD España editor-in-chief on precision over scale, international expansion, and what independent publishing can teach the rest of the industry. Enric Pastor started out as a journalist at El Mundo, where he learned “the discipline, the speed, and the pressure to be clear.” A decade at Condé Nast followed, launching and eventually editing AD España, before he left in 2021 to build something of his own.

09 June 2026 When Ari Assuied, the trailblazing founder and CEO of French digital media streaming platform Cafeyn Group, passed away suddenly in 2023, it fell to Laurent Kayser to lead the company into the future. From the moment he was appointed, Kayser made it clear he would strive to further develop Cafeyn into the “European champion” Assuied had always envisaged. Earlier this year, that dream became a reality.

02 June 2026 The new FIPP Committee for Kids Trusted Media, an initiative put forward by Yulia Petrossian Boyle, Chair of the FIPP Advisory Board, sets out to establish industry standards for children’s media – and make the case that raising the next generation of readers is one of the most strategically important things the publishing industry can do to continue having lifelong readers of trusted media.

28 May 2026 After 21 years at the BBC and senior roles at Culture Trip and Ringier, Dmitry Shishkin now advises major media organisations. Here he argues that the industry’s most urgent problem isn’t AI, declining trust or commercial pressure – it’s the inability to accurately name what’s actually wrong. His  move to independent advisory work was, Dmitry Shishkin says, deliberate – a way to work across more organisations at the moment when outside perspective is most valuable.