Wednesday, 12 October 2011

09.30 - 14.00 The Annual Media Development Round Table

Shaping Media Assistance Policies: Supporting the Media Sector When Markets and Governments Fail

Over the past 60 years, an entire industry has grown up around the enterprise of media assistance – training journalists, modernizing infrastructure, and most recently, offering management support. Yet even the most experienced practitioners are hard-pressed to define what constitutes success or failure in their domain. Shaping Media Development Policies aims to further the conversation on how donors, investors and media executives can re-examine their goals and their toolkits, and take the lead in making financial viability compatible with quality journalism. The session will consider new avenues to support quality content and the public’s right to know in emerging and developing markets.

• Gordana Jankovic, Director, Network Media Program, Open Society Foundations (OSF)
• Helena Bjuremalm, Senior Policy Specialist, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) 
• Marguerite H. Sullivan, Director, Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
• Anne Nelson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University/ WAN-IFRA Research Consultant 
• Harlan Mandel, CEO, Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF)
• Troy Etulain,  Senior Advisor for Independent Media Development,  United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

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14.30 - 17.30 The Annual World Young Reader Round Table

Winning Strategies for Engaging the Young

Newspapers must reach the newest generation of young people where they are and with both authenticity and strong sense of engagement to ensure their future success. This session will explore some of the latest successes in doing exactly that.
Participants will hear from some top winners of the 2011 World Young Reader Prizes about how they succeeded in engaging the young with innovative strategies via print and a wide variety of other platforms and approaches. In addition, we will explore effective joint actions that can save individual newspapers both time and effort.
Participants are invited to visit the special Young Reader Advice Booth at both the IFRA EXPO and INFO SERVICES EXPO.

Both the World Young Reader Prizes and the Annual Young Reader Round Table are supported by Norske Skog, the Norway-based paper producer.

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14.30 - 17.30 The Annual Press Freedom Round Table

Making press freedom your business: how restrictions on freedom of expression impact the global news industry

While the threat of violent assault, kidnapping and even murder are a daily reality for many journalists worldwide, other more subtle attacks against press freedom exist which attract far fewer headlines.
Some of the most frequent problems faced by the editors and publishers we work with include censorship, financial pressures, advertising boycotts, government meddling and judicial harassment. For this year’s Press Freedom Round Table, a panel of outstanding experts from across the global media and freedom of expression community will discuss how the business of newspapers is affected when freedom of expression is threatened.

• Alison Bethel McKenzie, Director, International Press Institute, Austria
• Agnès Callamard, Executive Director, Article 19, UK
• Amadou Mahtar Ba, CEO, African Media Initiative, Kenya
• Gamal Eid, Human Rights Lawyer, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Egypt
• Aboubakr Jamaï, Co-founder and former Managing Director, Le Journal Hebdomadaire and 2011 Gebran Tueni Award laureate, Morocco

Moderated by:
Shahira Amin, former Deputy Head of Nile TV, Egypt. Shahira resigned her post as TV anchor in protest of the station’s coverage of the revolution.

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