Thierry Backes is a digital strategist and innovative journalist with extensive experience in user-centered product development and project management. From 2021 to 2025, they served as an editor with special responsibilities in the WDR Newsroom, focusing on building a storytelling team and conducting user tests to enhance digital products. Previously, from 2013 to 2021, they co-led the development of a new digital strategy and CMS at Süddeutsche Zeitung. Thierry has also held editorial roles at multiple publications, including the Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag and the Denver Post, and completed an Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
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