O'Reilly president of WAN once again

Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of Ireland-based Independent News & Media, was re-elected president of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) for a third term of two years. Fred Arp, CFO of the Telegraaf Media Group in the Netherlands, was re-elected treasurer. New board members from 13 countries were also elected on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, at the WAN AGM, held during the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Göteborg, Sweden: Frédéric Aurand, board chairman of Groupe Hersant Media, France; Oyungerel Batnasan, executive director of the Newspaper Association of Mongolia; Indira Crasnea, deputy chief editor of Mediafax, Romania; Philip Crawley, publisher and CEO of the Globe & Mail, Canada; Mathias Döpfner, CEO and chairman, Axel Springer, Germany; Dahlan Iskan, publisher and chief editor of the Jawa Post, Indonesia; Tibor Kovacs, CEO of Nepszabadsag, Hungary; Remzi Lani, director of the Albanian Media Institute; François Le Hodey, CEO of S.A. Informations et Productions Multimedia, Belgium; Jaime Mantilla Anderson, director general of Hoy, Ecuador; Veaceslav Perunov, director of the Association of Independent Press, Moldova; Sinha Ratnatunga, editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka; Mikhel Reinsalu, CEO of Eesti Pävaleht, Estonia; and Nelson Sirotsky, president and CEO of Grupo RBS, Brazil.