Steve McLaughlin, Telegraph Media Group's chief commercial officer, held responsibility for digital strategy and revenues, digital and print subscriptions, commerce and e-commerce strategy.
Nuala O'Connor, President and CEO of Center for Democracy & Technology, Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at New York University, and Craig Silverman, Media Editor at BuzzFeed News, take a deep dive into the role and responsibility of digital and social media platforms as purveyors and shapers of news and information.
It's therefore no surprise that senior managers routinely hand off responsibility for digital security to their technical people or to consultants hired to "make the organization impermeable". But an arm's-length approach is extremely unwise given the high stakes involved.
According to Gartner research, CMOs are taking on expanded responsibility for digital commerce, customer experience, innovation, sales—even IT.
We can develop skills to manage and take responsibility for digital memory so that it outlives us.
With such methodical shift of responsibility, a digital self learner eventually develops the ability to search for information in multiple texts, employ different strategies to achieve goals, and to represent ideas in different forms.
If we don't begin a complicated and difficult conversation about social responsibility and digital privacy, if we don't begin to teach our children about the power and unforgiving nature of the internet, we will have many more tragic stories for the media to report.
With the right information at their disposal they are able to make informed and mature decisions regarding their safety and responsibility as digital citizens".
Responsibilities: As Digital Archivist, I am responsible for the ongoing management of the University Archives Digital Curation Program.
I also have responsibilities for digital activity throughout the company.
