The 2023 Media Innovators Forum will address business and financial reporting across Africa while promoting interactive dialogue to build strong diplomatic relations in areas of financial coverage and availability of reliable and timely data on the continent.
The event is co-hosted by M. Scott Havens, CEO, Bloomberg Media and Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief Emeritus, Bloomberg News, and Erana Stennett, Corporate Philanthropy Middle East and Africa, Bloomberg.This year’s convening returns to South Africa, which was the inaugural host of ABMI in 2015, resuming in person for the first time since 2019.
Also, editor-in-chief Emeritus, Bloomberg News, Matthew Winkler said: ‘ABMI comes at a time of growing optimism around Africa’s economic potential and aims to act as a platform for action to catalyse investment, growth, and development by contributing to the strengthening of business and financial reporting on the continent’.
The annual event is a component of the Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa , a pan-African programme launched by Michael R. Bloomberg in 2014. The initiative is designed to advance business journalism in Africa and accelerate development of a globally competitive media and financial reporting industry.