Reporters of Hope
While a consultant in strategy and change management in the consulting firm BearingPoint (ex Arthur Andersen), he co-founded a social business, Reporters of Hope (Reporters d’Espoirs), and encouraged a large group of media CEOs (TV, Radio, Press and Internet…) to focus on solution-based information. The first event united important figures of the press at the headquarters of UNESCO with more than 1200 opinion leaders and more than 350 journalists and editors.
In 2007, Reporters of Hope (Reporters d’Espoirs) becomes the first and the only press agency specialized in the treatment of initiatives and solutions, filling the void left by the big press agencies, like AFP and Reuters. This Press Agency provides most of the large media with content.
It is a social business based on Professor Muhammad Yunus’s definition (Nobel Peace Prize Winner): the investors recover their investment but do not receive dividends and cannot sell their shares for profit. The benefits of Reporters of Hope (Reporters d’Espoirs) are invested back into the company’s development. This reinvestment allows social businesses to prosper without financial pressure from shareholders.
Christian de Boisredon, passed on the presidency to Pierre Nougué and the managing rôle to a CEO in 2007 in order to focus on his other projects.
Read more about this topic: Christian De Boisredon
Famous quotes containing the words reporters and/or hope:
“In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision reaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)