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Registration will be open from from 8am Monday and Tuesday.
Deidre McCarthy, Managing Director, RTE News and Current Affairs chairs a session where leading Editors from around the world share their views on the frontline issues facing the news industry in the next twelve months.
How should the dominant story in Europe be covered going forward?
Speakers include Angelina Kariakina, Head of News for Ukraine’s public service television; Steve Rosenberg, BBC Moscow Correspondent; and veteran reporter John Sweeney, who’s published a daily video diary of the war, since the start of the invasion.
Marina Ovsyannikova burst into a live News Broadcast in March 2022 with a sign reading ‘stop the war – they’re lying to you here’. In October last year, with her young daughter, she fled for the border with the help of the director of Reporters Sans Frontieres, Christophe Deloire. Marina and Christophe will discuss the protest, the escape, the situation in Russia today and how RSF supports other journalists at risk, around the world. Speakers: Marina Ovsyannikova, former Editor for Channel One, Russia; Christophe Deloire, Director, Reporters Sans Frontieres.
Facing the challenge to make facts heard or seen against a background of misinformation. AFP employs 140 journalists specifically to counter this threat and Faktisk has a far smaller team but is a unique Norwegian initiative which fact checks for all the leading media companies in the country.
Speakers include: Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director, Agence France-Presse and Helje Solberg, Chair of Faktisk and News Director at NRK.
Lunch provides an opportunity to visit the exhibitor stands in the extensive Forum area of the Convention Centre – where there will also be workshops, to expand on the themes of News Xchange. Details of the exhibitors and activities in the forum will be announced shortly.
How can we prepare frontline reporters before they go to the field? Support them when they’re there – and when they come back? How can we measure the need for psychological support of frontline journalists?
Paul Bascobert, the recently appointed President of Reuters, addresses the changing landscape for the news industry: looking at the pivotal role of authoritative newsgathering – in an age when anyone can gather news; and the threats and opportunities presented by new technology, new video formats and AI.
