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action press AG: Top appointments at media tech asset action press

EQS-News: action press AG / Key word(s): Personnel action press AG: Top appointments at media tech asset action press 01.09.2023 / 13:13 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Picture agency sets course by focusing personnel on new industry standard streaming  Daniel Nikolic new Editor-in-Chief, Frank Glandorf new CFO

Frankfurt am Main/Hamburg, September 1, 2023 - As the first picture agency group ever, action press AG (Frankfurt) will map the transformation from the previous print focus to the expected new industry standard streaming of digital media assets with the British SmartFrame Technologies Ltd. (London) in all operational processes and has reorganized its personnel accordingly: In the course of its structuring into the three business areas of classic picture agency, streaming and AI-driven content, it will appoint an editor-in-chief and a CFO (chief financial officer) for the first time in its more than fifty-year history on September 1, 2023.

 

The new Editor-in-Chief of the action press group is Daniel Nikolic (42), who has been Visual Content and Assignment Editor at action press subsidiary ddp media GmbH since 2017. He gained management experience as Head of Picture Editing (2008 to 2012) at the agency face to face, which was acquired by action press in 2021. After a stopover as picture editor at Insight Media (2012 to 2017), he joined the ddp group, where he became the main person responsible for editorial and technical tasks with the Stockholm-based international picture agency and ddp subsidiary Stella Pictures AB. For two decades, Stella has covered major events in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, focusing on royals, celebrities and sports. Nikolic’s credentials include a strong affinity for IT. As Editor-in-Chief, he now heads the joint editorial team of action press AG and its subsidiaries action press international GmbH (Editorial Director Bettina Geschwind, with the company since 2004) and ddp media GmbH (Chief of Staff Holger Stevens, with the company since 2013).