Bill Porter
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Bill Porter "worked as a freelance journalist in Asia, Europe and America. Returning to Britain he became the Chief Executive of the UK arm of a Dutch publishing multi-national. After holding executive positions with the Publishers Association and the Periodical Publishers, he was among the pioneers of electronic and database publishing.
"Encouraged by his wife Sonja, in 1990 he founded the International Communications Forum, and was Chairman for ten years. Roger Parkinson, then President of the World Association of Newspapers, stated that the ICF “had put the issue of the media’s effect on society onto the world’s agenda”." [1] For More Info
His autobiography was published in 2005 and is titled “Do Something About It!”.
External links
- "Biography", Accessed December 2006.
