Does one have to be a senior editor to join GEN?

No! GEN offers three categories of individual membership: 1 – Individual members This type of membership is open to editors-in-chief and to senior news executives from all newsrooms: press agencies, television, radio, daily and magazine press, suppliers of on-line editorial content or on-mobile platforms, media companies… Individual members can also be involved in producing editorial content: engineers and developers, designers, applications’ creators, community managers, content aggregators, media bloggers as well as professionals involved in the ‘links and communities economy’. 2 – Associate members This type of membership is open to the following legal persons: journalism schools, research or professional training centres, national or international associations working for freedom of expression, other organizations working on editorial content. This type of membership is also open to physical persons working in the organizations mentioned in the above paragraph. 3 – Honorary members This type of membership is open to qualified persons (physical persons) who do not belong to the above-mentioned categories. GEN’s CEO decides whether the status of honorary member can be granted or not. In case of refusal, one can always appeal to the GEN Board. Interested? Join us now.