Speakers

Nessa Shazna

Journalist and Media Executive/Recent Global Head of Visuals and Masthead Editor, The Wall Street Journal

Shazna Nessa has over two decades of experience leading transformation in digital journalism and newsroom culture, most recently as a Masthead Editor at The Wall Street Journal. She is alumni of The Knight Foundation, The Associated Press, and Condé Nast. She was the President of the Online News Association between 2020–2022. Shazna grew up in London and holds a degree from the Sorbonne, Paris. She was a 2008 Sulzberger fellow at Columbia University and a 2014 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. She is currently writing her first book.