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.
His successor were Christoph Zimmer, Head of Communications at Tamedia and Olivier de Reaymaeker, the CEO of Le Soir.
The initiative is intended to consolidate European public opinion through content that the seven members of LENA share and produce jointly.
In January 2016, as part of the World Economic Forum, held in Davos, LENA organized a debate on the challenges represented by integrating refugees.
Issues for which LENA members have worked jointly include refugees of the Syrian Civil War, the Greek government-debt crisis, the political challenges of the EU and the consequences of economic sanctions on Russia.