Inventing the future: how we got here and how we should move forward
Fri 17 April 2026
17:00
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Richard Gingras’ work in digital media began in 1979, when he produced one of the first interactive online news magazines, years before developing a pre-Web online service for Apple and providing the seed funding for Salon.com. A founding board member of the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation, Richard has been at the forefront of seismic changes in digital media. Now, as chair of Village Media, he is helping to invent what a digital operating system for a community might be.
Since his first job in journalism in 1976, Marcus Brauchli has worked for leading U.S. newspapers, first as an international correspondent, then as a news executive, presiding over major newsroom changes to meet the rise of digital, video and social, and working with rising media leaders who are remaking how we consume news today.
Over the last quarter-century, the internet, social media and AI have transformed the news, for better and for worse. Meanwhile, the consolidation of media ownership by large conglomerates and intense partisan pressure is undermining press freedom, while AI and mis- and disinformation threaten the future of news.
In conversation with Indira Lakshmanan, Richard and Marcus will help us find constructive paths forward for the next 25 years, amid the enormous technological changes and political and economic pressures facing the media.
Moderated by Indira Lakshmanan.
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Marcus Brauchli
Marcus Brauchli is a journalist, investor and writer. He is co-founder with Sasa Vucinic of North Base Media, a boutique firm that invests in and advises media companies around the world. Its current holdings include digital-media groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and Mexico, as well as media-tech platforms in the U.S. and Europe. Brauchli was top editor of The Washington Post and before that of the Wall Street Journal, where he spent 24 years as a foreign correspondent and editor. He was a 1991-92 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a graduate of Columbia University. He serves on the boards of the National Trust for Local News, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship and TNL Mediagene, a Nasdaq-listed Asian media group.
Richard Gingras
Richard Gingras is Vice President, News at Google. In that role Gingras guides Googleâs strategies in how it surfaces news on Google search, Google News, and its smart devices. He also oversees Googleâs effort to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism, which includes a vast array of tools and training programs that address various dimensions of sustainable news publishing â from tools to drive subscriptions to tools to supportin investigative reporting. Gingras was a member of the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy. He is a founding board member of the Center for News, Technology and Innovation. For more than thirty-five years, Gingras has led highly-regarded efforts in the development of online services and new media. He also serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and the Manship School of Communications at LSU. From March 2009 to June 2011, he was CEO of Salon Media Group which operated the acclaimed Salon.com and the pioneering virtual community The Well. Gingras assembled Salon's initial seed financing in 1995. Salon featured the work of many acclaimed journalists including Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald. Gingras was a strategic advisor to the senior team at Google (2007-2009), strategic advisor to Storify (sold to LiveFyre), founder and CEO of Goodmail Systems, a founding VP of pioneering broadband provider @Home Network and SVP and General Manager of Excite@Home (1996-2001), led the design and development of Apple's online service eWorld (1993-1996), and was founder and CEO of MediaWorks (1987-1992), an early developer of news-agenting technology. He is also a strategic advisor and seed funder of numerous startups. In 1979, Gingras created the first interactive online news magazine - done in partnership with CBS, NBC, and PBS using interactive television technology known as broadcast teletext. In the fall of 2012, he was recognized with the Manship Prize for contributions to the evolution of digital media. Gingras began his career in television, holding various positions with PBS , KCET/Los Angeles, and NBC during the 1970s. He is a 1973 graduate of Boston College.
Indira Lakshmanan
Indira Lakshmanan is ideas and opinion editor at U.S. News & World Report. Previously, she was Global Enterprise Editor at The Associated Press and prior to that senior executive editor of National Geographic Media, overseeing content across print and digital platforms, including coverage of science, environment, history, culture, animals and travel. She served as executive editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a journalism nonprofit that partners with media outlets to support ambitious, award-winning journalism on global issues. She was also the first Newmark chair in journalism ethics at the Poynter Institute, where she focused on restoring trust in journalism through transparency and accountability, and served on the PBS editorial standards committee. As a reporter, Indira filed stories from more than 80 countries on six continents, and interviewed and profiled leaders from Hillary Clinton and Fidel Castro to Benazir Bhutto and Evo Morales. From 2016-2019, she was Washington columnist for The Boston Globe, following eight years at Bloomberg covering foreign policy and politics and traveling with secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. For two years, she wrote a Letter from Washington column for the International New York Times, and was a special correspondent for PBS Newshour and Politico Magazine. Indira spent a dozen years as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for The Boston Globe in the Balkans, Asia and Latin America. She covered the Bosnian War and the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan; investigated links between rebels and officials in the Philippines; and embedded with sea pirates in Southeast Asia, Maoist rebels in Nepal, and Khmer Rouge holdouts in Cambodia. Her reporting exposed child labor in Bolivia, illegal logging in Brazil, corruption in China, and helped end the incarceration of innocent children in Nepal. Indira started her career on the foreign desk at National Public Radio, and has guest-hosted numerous NPR live current affairs programs.
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