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Advertising 2.0 New York Thursday, June 11th
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Keynote Conversation Michael Wolff, founder, Newser andColumnist, Vanity Fair Andrew Lack, CEO Multimedia Group, Bloomberg LP
Michael Wolff, founder, Newser andColumnist, Vanity Fair: Michael Wolff, a columnist for Vanity Fair and two-time National Magazine Award winner, is one of the nation's most influential writers about media, culture and politics. He is a commentator for CNBC and the founder of Newser (www.newser.com), the news aggregator.
In 2003, he achieved international recognition for his dispatches from the Persian Gulf as the Iraq War began. His work, which has been widely anthologized, has appeared in numerous publications in the U.S., including New York Magazine, where he was a columnist, and the Guardian and Spectator in the U.K. He is the author of five books, includingAutumn of the Moguls (HarperBusiness, 2003) and Burn Rate (Simon & Schuster, 1998) and The Man Who Owns the News (Random House, 2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch, based on nine months of interviews with Murdoch and his family and associates. He lives in New York City.
Andrew Lack, CEO Multimedia Group, Bloomberg LP: An award-winning news executive, Andrew Lack is CEO of Bloombergs multimedia group, where he is responsible for the companys expanding television, interactive, and radio operations.
Prior to joining Bloomberg in October 2008, Lack was chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, where he managed the companys roster of major international artists and its vast catalog of recorded music from around the world. During his tenure at Sony, he merged Sony Music with the Bertelsmann Music Group and started Sony BMGs theatrical film business. Previously, he was president and COO of NBC, where he oversaw entertainment, news (including MSNBC and CNBC), NBC stations, sales, and broadcast and network operations. He was also responsible for expanding the Today show to three hours and creating the show's "streetside" studio in New York's Rockefeller Center.
From 1993 to 2001, Lack was president of NBC News, which he transformed into America's most-watched news organization. Before going to NBC, Lack spent much of his television career at CBS News, where he created and served as the executive producer of the groundbreaking newsmagazine West 57th (1985-89). He joined CBS News in 1976 and by the next year had become a prominent producer for 60 Minutes. Lack's broadcasts at CBS earned numerous honors, including sixteen Emmy Awards and four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards. He is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University.