Foreign and international editors from leading news agencies and print, broadcast and online news media organizations in the U.S. and Canada will gather on November 15, 2019, at the offices of The Associated Press headquarters in New York for a meeting of the International Press Institute (IPI) Foreign Editors’ Circle.

The meeting is being organized by IPI’s North American Committee in partnership with The Associated Press. It will be the seventh gathering of the Foreign Editors’ Circle, a forum begun by IPI in 2013 to provide a place for foreign editors from the U.S. and Canada to discuss common problems, issues of safety, and best practices for gathering international news.

Previous gatherings held at The New York Times (2018) and at the Washington Post (2017) focused on the Trump administration’s effect on international relations and America’s place in the world as well as cybersecurity and disinformation.

This year’s Circle will cover the following topics:
The State of our World – Concerns about International Reporting and Foreign Coverage
Cyber-meddling, the Media and Democracy
The Power of the Image in Foreign Coverage

Foreign editors from a range of major publications will be represented at the meeting, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, NPR, ProPublica and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Speakers include:
John Daniszewski, Vice President and Editor at Large for Standards, The Associated Press; IPI Special Representative for Journalist Safety
Marty Steffens, Chair, North American Committee, International Press Institute (IPI)
Nick Monaco, Research Director, Digital Intelligence Lab (DigIntel), Institute for the Future
Charles Sennott, Founder, CEO and Editor, The GroundTruth Project
David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (video message)
Gary Pruitt, President and CEO, The Associated Press
Anthony Feinstein, Psychiatrist, University of Toronto
Pancho Bernasconi, Vice President, Global News, Getty Images
Maye-E Wong, Photojournalist, The Associated Press
David Rohde, Executive Editor, The New Yorker
Maria Salazar, Director, Emergencies Department, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Dominic Tierney, Associate Professor, Swarthmore College; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute; author of The Right Way to Lose a War: American in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
Tony Cavin, Foreign Editor, CBS News
Barbara Trionfi, Executive Director, International Press Institute (IPI)

7th Meeting of the IPI Foreign Editors' Circle

  • DATE:Friday, Nov. 15, 2019
  • PLACE:Offices of The Associated Press, New York City, United States
    • CONTACT PERSON: Martha Steffens, Chair of the IPI North American Committee and Professor, SABEW Chair in Business and Financial Reporting, University of Missouri School of Journalism at Steffensm[at]missouri[dot]edu