LENA

About

Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA) is an organisation initially set up by seven European newspapers in March 2015, to improve journalism in Europe. The group aims to share content and technology practice within the transformation the journalism industry is currently experiencing, in an environment characterised by rapid growth in Internet-based readers. The members of LENA are Die Welt (Germany), El País (Spain), La Repubblica (Italy), Le Figaro (France), Le Soir (Belgium), Swiss German-language newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, French-language newspaper Tribune de Genève and Polish-language newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. These publications have a joint readership of seven million, in addition to 43 million unique Internet users. Javier Moreno Barber, editor in-chief of El País from 2006 to 2014, was the group's director until May 2017. His successor were Christoph Zimmer, Head of Communications at Tamedia and Olivier de Reaymaeker, the CEO of Le Soir. The current Chairwoman of the Alliance is Joanna Krawczyk, the Head of News Partnerships at Gazeta Wyborcza.