Turi Munthe is the CEO and founder of Demotix <http://www.demotix.com/>, the multi-award winning citizen newswire, with over 35,000 reporters in over 190 countries around the world.
The Telegraph describes Demotix as "Journalism for the 21st Century". Demotix sells breaking and archive news images/video daily all over the world, broke the 1-million image mark in October 2012, and was acquired by Bill Gates' Corbis Images <http://www.corbisimages.com/> in November 2012.
Mr. Munthe has been a publisher, editor, policy analyst, lecturer, journalist and talking head. He has written for many of the world's leading English-language newspapers, appeared on most major broadcasters, and has lectured on new media all over the world. He is the author of the Saddam Hussein Reader. He is on the board of three charitable institutions, serves as an advisor to several tech/media start-ups, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Mr. Munthe is English-French and was educated at Oxford and NYU.