Our responsibility as a media company The first signatories included Frederic Aurand (Groupe Hersant, France), Francisco Balsemão (Impresa, Portugal), Carlo De Benedetti (Editoriale L‘Espresso, Italy), Carl-Johan Bonnier (Bonnier, Sweden), Oscar Bronner (Der Standard, Austria), Bernd Buchholz (Gruner + Jahr, Germany), Hubert Burda (Burda Media, Germany), Mathias Döpfner (Axel Springer SE, Germany), Hanzade Dogan (Milliyet, Turkey), Stefan von Holtzbrinck (Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, Germany), Patrick Morley (Telegraaf Media Group, The Netherlands), James Murdoch (News Corporation Europe and Asia), Horst Pirker (Styria, Austria), Didier Quillot (Lagadére, France), Gavin O‘Reilly (Independent News and Media, Ireland), Michael Ringier (Ringier, Switzerland), The Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail and General Trust, Great Britain), Ian Smith (Reed Elsevier, Great Britain/The Netherlands), Hannu Syrjanen (Sanoma, Finland), Robert Thomson (Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal), Giorgio Valerio (RCS Quotidiani, Italy) and Christian Van Thillo (de Persgroep, Belgium).