In March 2026, YPO United Mosaic — an Israel-connected global chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization — convened nineteen senior media executives at the University of Miami for a one-day summit titled "The Future of News." The roster spanned legacy television, digital-native publishers, wire services, Latin American media empires, and AI verification startups.
The subjects they addressed — AI-driven distribution, the collapse of advertising-dependent journalism, trust in a fragmented information environment, and what speakers called "living news" — define the operating challenges for every communications professional working today.
Here is what was in the room.
The Full Speaker Roster
The lineup represented editorial, business, and technology leadership across the global media industry:
Rashida Jones, former president of MSNBC. Goli Sheikholeslami, CEO of Politico. Dev Pragad, CEO of Newsweek. Jon Miller, former CEO of AOL and News Corp. Eric Gertler, chairman and CEO of U.S. News & World Report. David Carey, senior vice president of Hearst Corporation. Matt Brown, CEO of PR Newswire. Greg Galant, CEO of Muck Rack. John Avlon, former editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast.
Ami Gan, former CEO of OnlyFans. Renata Afonso, former president of CNN Brasil. Rafa Urbina, president of ViX at TelevisaUnivision. Cynthia Hudson, former senior vice president of CNN Español. Luis Fernández, chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. Jonathan Blum, former president of Cisneros Media. John Rossiter, general manager of Sony Latin America. Faizaan Baig, CFO of Tucker Carlson Network. Elizabeth Green, CEO of The Civic News Company. Rodrigo Gonzales, CEO of Neewz.AI.
That is not a panel. That is a cross-section of the organizations that produce, distribute, and monetize news across the Americas — English-language, Spanish-language, broadcast, digital, and AI-native.
Trust as an Operating Problem, Not a Brand Promise
Multiple sessions focused on what happens when trust becomes a measurable business variable — not a mission statement, but a metric that determines distribution reach, advertising yield, and survival.
Speakers addressed the reality that in a fragmented information environment, audiences no longer grant institutional trust by default. Every publisher — from Politico to Newsweek to CNN Brasil — now competes for credibility on a per-story basis, in a landscape where algorithm-driven distribution and user-generated content have eroded the structural advantages that legacy brands once held.
The discussion moved beyond the familiar framing of "rebuilding trust" toward the harder question: what does trust infrastructure look like when the audience's first encounter with your journalism may be inside an AI-generated summary they never asked for?
A recurring theme across panels was the growing influence of social and data platforms in shaping narratives — and the asymmetry between the organizations that produce journalism and the platforms that distribute it.
This is not a new conversation. But the composition of the room made it a different one. With the CEO of PR Newswire, the CEO of Muck Rack, and the former CEO of AOL in the same session, the discussion moved from editorial grievance to distribution economics: how wire services, media-intelligence platforms, and aggregators interact with the newsrooms they serve, and how those relationships are being reshaped by AI intermediaries that sit between the publisher and the reader.
Beyond Breaking News: The "Living News" Model
Speakers introduced the concept of "living news" — continuously evolving storytelling formats that move beyond the traditional breaking-news cycle. The idea: a story does not end when it is published. It compounds. It updates. It responds to audience behavior and new information in ways that the static article format was never designed to accommodate.
This concept has direct implications for how newsrooms staff, how CMSs are built, and how advertising is priced. A "living" story that evolves over weeks generates different engagement patterns — and different monetization opportunities — than a one-and-done piece filed at deadline.
AI Verification as a Category
Neewz.AI, the summit's lead sponsor, used the event to showcase AI-powered verification and credibility tools designed for newsrooms. CEO Rodrigo Gonzales positioned the company at the intersection of two problems: the speed at which AI can generate misinformation, and the speed at which newsrooms need to verify what is real.
The fact that an AI verification startup — not an advertising platform or a social network — sponsored a summit of this caliber signals where the smart money in media infrastructure is heading. Verification is becoming a product category, not just an editorial practice.
Who Convened This — and Why It Matters for Communications
YPO United Mosaic is a global chapter within YPO, the leadership community of more than 38,000 chief executives across 150-plus countries. The chapter was formed in 2021 as an Israel-focused international network — recruiting CEO members globally who share a connection to Israel. It operates with more than 300 members spanning industries and continents.
Jordan Kavana, the chapter's vice chair, organized the summit. Kavana is the founder and chairman of ARK Homes for Rent, a nearly $2 billion rental-property portfolio across the U.S. Sunbelt. He is a Harvard Business School graduate, a founding member of AIPAC's Miami Club, and a former trustee on the Florida State Pension Plan Board.
Dr. Nir Ben Lavi — an Israeli innovation evangelist, CEO of Pangea Cup, World Economic Forum member, XPRIZE mentor, and active YPO Israel member — delivered the summit's closing synthesis, connecting the day's discussions to leadership principles for building resilient news organizations.
For the communications industry, the convener matters as much as the content. This was not a journalism conference organized by a journalism institution. It was a CEO network — with deep ties to Israel's technology and innovation ecosystem — deciding that the future of news infrastructure mattered enough to bring the people running it into the same room.
For a deeper look at YPO United Mosaic's position as an Israel-connected global CEO network, see the full profile on Olam.
