John Wilpers

Senior Director
Innovation Media Consulting

Biography

After 35 years as a writer, editor, and media executive, for the last nine years he has consulted with media companies around the world focusing on multi-platform innovation, organizational integration, and customer-driven editorial management to deliver multimedia content 24-7 across all platforms.

John's recent projects include: the leading South African media group; an Italian multi-newspaper group; an Indian multi-magazine publisher; two major USA B2B magazine companies; a Czech multimedia publisher; the leading radio company in Peru; a Norwegian newspaper group; and the University of Virginia.

John is author and editor of the annual "Innovations in Magazines World Report" published for the world association of magazines (FIPP).

John also created a self-esteem-building soccer program for girls, graduating 4,200 girls since 1996 (hotshotssoccer.org). He is a long-board surfer, gardener, and "Mother Ginger" in the "Nutcracker" in Boston for the last 20 years.

About Innovation Media Consulting

Innovation Media Consulting helps news media to REINVENT their editorial models, strategies, products, design, newsrooms, workflows and narratives for the digital age. The aim is to help them increase their reach, relevance and revenue through innovation across every product, every story and every platform.

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