Clemens Pig is the CEO of APA – Austria Press Agency (Vienna), vice president of the board of directors of the Swiss news agency group Keystone-SDA (Bern) and since April 2024 president of the Austrian Association of Cooperatives (ÖGV). Pig received his PhD from the University of Innsbruck in 2012 and is the author of numerous articles on politics and the media. He co-founded the start-up MediaWatch – Institut für Medienanalysen GmbH (1996) and, after the successful sale of APA, joined the Austrian news agency group in 2008. He was appointed CEO of APA Group in 2016. Pig was awarded the Austrian Research Award for Public Relations (2013) and voted Media Manager of the Year (2018) and Communicator of the Year (2021, 2023). His book “Democracy Dies in Darkness. Fake News, Big Tech, AI: Hat die Wa(h)re Nachricht eine Zukunft?” was published in 2023.