Ezra Eeman is Strategy and Innovation Director at NPO, the Dutch Public Broadcaster, and the incoming Director of AI in Media of WAN-IFRA. Ezra writes a weekly industry newsletter, Wayfinder, about media innovation and is the author of the annual “Wayfinder Trends Report”. Previously, he served as Change Director at the international media company Mediahuis, where he was responsible for coordinating newsroom transformations and digital acceleration across a wide range of cross-media brands. Before that, Ezra was the Head of Digital at the EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, and has held positions at VRT (the Flemish public broadcaster) and VTM (the Flemish commercial broadcaster) as innovation lab head and editor-in-chief, respectively.
Phoebe Connelly is currently pursuing a graduate degree at the London School of Economics, researching how newsrooms, journalists and creators can build resilience while tackling challenging news cycles, new platforms and emerging technologies.
Previously she was Senior Editor, AI Strategy and Innovation for The Washington Post, leading The Post’s efforts to employ generative AI and other emerging technologies in service of its mission to inform, empower, and delight its readers.
Previously, Connelly served as Director of Next Generation Audiences at The Washington Post. In this role, she oversaw a team focused on accelerating The Post’s reach among younger and more diverse audiences through new products, practices and partnerships.
Before that, Connelly served as deputy director for The Post’s award-winning video team where she oversaw daily and breaking news coverage, managing a staff that produced more than two dozen videos daily.
In that role, Connelly pioneered The Post’s presence on Twitch, experimenting with live video coverage of major news events to reach and engage new audiences. She was part of the team which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
