About
Impact4news is a tech and media policy accelerator that gathers strength from the contributions and support of national & international news organisations; leading news publishers; technology, internet and media policy experts and related civil society groups.
Its core mission is to:
Impact4News has been launched in October 2019 by Gilles Demptos, a lawyer with over 19 years of working experience in news publishing and public policy, passionate about the legal, social and ethical changes driven by digital technologies in the news and media ecosystem.
Gilles has been based in Asia Pacific for over 12 years. Prior to founding Impact4news, Gilles was a Public Policy and Government Relations Senior Manager at Google in Singapore. In this position, he managed public policy issues related to the telco, news publishing and media industries in APAC.
Before joining Google, Gilles was Director Asia at WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. In this position, he headed WAN-IFRA's Singapore-based subsidiary activities in Asia Pacific. This organisation's core mission is to promote press freedom, help independent news publishing companies to operate their digital transformation and sustainably perform their crucial role in open societies.
For many years, Gilles has been the editor of Asian Newsmedia Focus, a B2B publication covering the Asia Pacific News industry. He was also the founder and executive director of WAN-IFRA's Chief Digital Officers Forum.
Gilles started his career in the press department of the European Commission Representation in Madrid, Spain and joined the IFRA organisation as Business Development Manager for Spain and Portugal in 2002. He graduated in both Law and Philosophy and holds a Master Degree in Philosophy of the Law from Université La Sorbonne (Paris IV). (See Linkedin profile for further details).
Its core mission is to:
- Stimulate the capacity of the News industry to produce relevant public policy proposals.
- Consolidate a coherent set of guidelines and principles on key regulatory issues, endorsed by leading national and international news organisations as well as leading news publishers and influential media experts.
- Strengthen the impact the News industry's voice in national and international regulatory debates for the adoption of solutions that will reinforce the sustainability of independent, quality journalism.
Impact4News has been launched in October 2019 by Gilles Demptos, a lawyer with over 19 years of working experience in news publishing and public policy, passionate about the legal, social and ethical changes driven by digital technologies in the news and media ecosystem.
Gilles has been based in Asia Pacific for over 12 years. Prior to founding Impact4news, Gilles was a Public Policy and Government Relations Senior Manager at Google in Singapore. In this position, he managed public policy issues related to the telco, news publishing and media industries in APAC.
Before joining Google, Gilles was Director Asia at WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers. In this position, he headed WAN-IFRA's Singapore-based subsidiary activities in Asia Pacific. This organisation's core mission is to promote press freedom, help independent news publishing companies to operate their digital transformation and sustainably perform their crucial role in open societies.
For many years, Gilles has been the editor of Asian Newsmedia Focus, a B2B publication covering the Asia Pacific News industry. He was also the founder and executive director of WAN-IFRA's Chief Digital Officers Forum.
Gilles started his career in the press department of the European Commission Representation in Madrid, Spain and joined the IFRA organisation as Business Development Manager for Spain and Portugal in 2002. He graduated in both Law and Philosophy and holds a Master Degree in Philosophy of the Law from Université La Sorbonne (Paris IV). (See Linkedin profile for further details).