JPJ Group plc announced that Katie Vanneck-Smith will join the Group's Board of Directors as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 October 2019. Katie is currently the co-founder and publisher of Tortoise Media, the slow-news start up, launched in January 2019. She previously spent over 20 years in various senior executive roles at News Corp, where she gained significant digital and marketing experience while working for some of the UK and U.S. national publications, including The Times and Wall Street Journal. She was most recently President of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.