Opportunities and Challenges in the Global Picture Business

LinkedIn for Journalists

LinkedIn for Journalists (LIFJ) helps journalists use LinkedIn to their advantage. Our program provides access to training sessions, LinkedIn experts, and tools like LinkedIn Premium Business.

Global Blockbusters, Local Roots

As audiences converge and tastes diversify, global hits depend on authenticity as much as scale. This conversation examines how actors and producers navigate casting, finance, and distribution across continents, and how to shape stories that honor cultural nuance while appealing to worldwide audiences.

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Safe Digital Spaces and Powering Youth’s Rise in Global Media

As young people become creators, storytellers, and digital citizens at unprecedented scale, the responsibility on media leaders and platforms grows just as quickly. This session explores how safe, trusted, and culturally grounded digital spaces can unlock youth creativity and empower the next generation to shape global media. From building future-ready ecosystems and fostering responsible innovation to developing talent pipelines that prepare young people for leadership, the conversation examines what it takes to protect youth while enabling them to thrive—and ultimately rise—as influential voices in the world’s media landscape.

Drive to Survive: F1’s Playbook for Monetizing Sports Media

Formula 1’s transformation from an elite European motorsport into a global cultural and commercial juggernaut, offers a clear playbook for media innovation multiplying the value of premium sport properties. This session looks to unpack the decisive catalysts behind such shifts, from Liberty Media’s ownership vision to strategic content partnerships and data-driven growth engines, and examines, through APEX’s investment in Alpine, what F1’s trajectory reveals about the future economics, global relevance and investor appeal of sport in a timeline dominated by streaming, personality and borderless audiences.

Navigating Journalism in a Changing News Business

As digital platforms, AI, and new business models redefine the news industry, this conversation explores how media can sustain credibility, adapt to disruption, and continue shaping informed societies. Anchored in the tension between speed and depth, it examines how the profession can reinvent itself for a world where traditional gatekeepers are fading but the mission of truth-telling remains unchanged.