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#10 - Shazna Nessa on Power and Empowering Others
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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jul 6, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
About Our Guest: Shazna Nessa is the global head of visuals at The Wall Street Journal. In this masthead position she is responsible for unique digital experiences and the visual journalism that is created daily by journalists with specialized skills in areas such as data visualization, photography, cartography, 3D, design, and illustration, across multiple platforms.Prior roles include positions at The Knight Foundation, The Associated Press, and Condé Nast. She was the President of the Board of Directors for the Online News Association 2020-2022, and was a Board Advisor for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, as well as the Journalism and Design program at the New School.Shazna was born and raised in London’s East End and holds a bachelor’s degree from the Sorbonne, Paris. She was a 2008 Sulzberger fellow at Columbia University and a 2014 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University.About Your Host: Anita Zielina is the CEO and founder of Better Leaders Lab. She's also an Executive in Residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she spent the last few years leading all continuing and executive education initiatives. Anita serves as the inaugural Board Chair of News Product Alliance (NPA) and is a member of the board of directors at the Austrian Public Broadcaster ORF.For the past 15 years, Anita held senior executive positions focused on product, strategy and innovation in various media and education organizations as Chief Product Officer, Managing Editor Digital, Editor-in-Chief and Director Strategic Initiatives. She has worked with around 500 managers, leaders and entrepreneurs as a consultant, coach and educator.She holds a Master in Law from Vienna University and an Executive MBA from INSEAD. Anita is an alumna of the Stanford Knight Journalism Fellowship and the Oxford Reuters Institute Fellowship. About Better Leaders Lab:Better Leaders Lab is a Do and Think Tank for good leadership and smart management in media and beyond and a boutique strategic advisory firm. BLL specializes in organizational change, strategy and scenario planning, leadership development and executive recruiting research. Its goal is to empower managers, leaders and organizations in the broader media, digital & innovation space to build successful, sustainable, modern and healthy businesses.Learn more:https://betterleaderslab.comGet in touchFeedback or questions related to the podcast?hello@betterleaderslab.comYou can also find us at Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and now YouTube!
Released:
Jul 6, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (19)
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