Board update: Jean Philip De Tender as new chairman and Helje Solberg as new member of the Constructive Institute board
Deputy director-general and media director of European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Geneva, Jean Philip De Tender, has been appointed new chairman of Constructive Institute at Aarhus Universitet along with the Director of News of Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, Helje Solberg, who enters as board member of Constructive Institute.
She takes the seat of Anne Lagercrantz, who has been appointed as new Director general of Swedish SVT.
Jean Philip De Tender takes the seat of Per Westergård, who retires after having served as chairman since the start of our NGO since it’s start in 2017.
Per has a lot of the honor of the fact that constructive journalism rapidly has gone from being a somewhat naive Danish idea to an global movement.
Jean Philip De Tender assumes the position as chairman after serving as board member since the foundation of Constructive Institute in 2017.
“I truely believe that this approach is essential for both public service media and commercial news providers. Therefore I’m proud to help scaling the constructive vision and toolbox to create even more global impact of the work of Constructive Institute.” De Tender says.
Helje Solberg is an award winning journalist with a past as CEO/Editor of VGTV and Executive Managing Editor for VG, the largest Norwegian media house on paper and internet combined.
“I have been impressed by the work done by Constructive Institute for several years. At NRK constructive journalism is now an important element of our strategy. And I look forward to work even closer with the team at Aarhus Universitet and the rest of the board,” Solberg says.
With our mission to change the global news culture to help news media help democracy we are proud to include such a capacity in our already fantastic board.
Jean Philip De Tender and Helje Solberg will be working with the rest of the board; CEO of Børsen Bjarne Corydon, German leadership professor Alexandra Borchardt, director Dawn Garcia from John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford and Dean of Arts at Aarhus University Maja Horst.
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