| 0800 - 0900 |
WORKING BREAKFAST - THE HDTV REVOLUTION:
NHK of Japan has been the leader in high definition television and Kei Yoshida,
NHK’s News Director of International Circuit Planning & Management, invites you to a working
breakfast to discuss how effectively HDTV conversion will affect your newsroom and its network.
Breakfast takes place in Aquarius Room; to attend, please RSVP to News Xchange
at info@newsxchange.org or in
the News Xchange registration area.
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| 0915 - 1100 |
THE NEW EUROPE AND THE STRUGGLE OVER MAINTAINING PUBLIC BROADCASTER VALUES.
The future of public service broadcasting in "new" and old Europe is at issue in this session produced by France 2.
- Do public and private broadcasters have different news agendas or do they now share the same editorial values?
- What fallout for embattled public service broadcasters such as Britain’s BBC and Italy’s RAI.
Session Chair: Christine Ockrent, Producer/Anchor, France Europe Express,
France 3
Featured contributors:
Mario Crespo, Senior Anchor, SIC, Portugal;
Marius Dragomir, European Counsel, Professor-Media, University de Louvain, France;
Greg Dyke, former Director-General, BBC, UK;
Ioulia Kapoustina, journalist, REN-TV, Russia;
Dusan Rejlic, Open Society Institute, Germany;
Plus satellite links to: NRK, Norway; RTL Klub, Hungary; RTP, Portugal; SIC, Portugal
Produced by: Patrick Lecocq, Pierre Allain, and Mariusz Kowalczyk, France 2
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| 1115 - 1130 |
THE MOHAMED AMIN AWARD PRESENTATION
Presented by Salim Amin, Chief Executive Officer, Camerapix, Kenya; and
Tony Donovan, Managing Director, Television, Reuters, UK
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| 1130 - 1230 |
IN CONVERSATION WITH....
Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF, discusses issues relating to broadcast coverage of children,
focusing on education of girls, orphans, trafficking, child prostitution and child soldiers.
Session Chair: Ulla Terkelsen, Senior Foreign Correspondent, TV2, Denmark
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| 1415 - 1550 |
REPORTING DARFUR AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN CRISES: ARE AID AGENCIES THE NEW FRONTLINE JOURNALISTS?
A critical examination of how television news reported on the Darfur genocide in Western Sudan
- Are aid agencies supplanting newsgathering in their increasingly aggressive coverage of humanitarian crises
- Are broadcasters and news agencies labelling the video provided to them by the aid agencies?
- What lessons learned from Darfur for coverage of other on-going humanitarian crises?
Session Chair: Fergal Keane, Special Correspondent, BBC, UK
Confirmed Featured Contributors:
Salim Amin, Chief Executive Officer, Camerapix, Kenya;
Greg Barrow, Senior Public Affairs Officer, World Food Program, UK;
Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF;
Dr. Rony Brauman, former president, MSF, France;
Susan Farkas, Director of Television, United Nations;
Patrick Muiruri, Producer/Cameraman, Reuters, Kenya
Produced by: Sarah Whitehead, BBC
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| 1605 - 1615 |
THE BEST OF IBC:
SVT’s Leif Hedman again produces a report from Amsterdam on the latest news
technology and focusing on new techniques introduced to assist undercover journalists.
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| 1615 - 1745 |
UNDERCOVER JOURNALISM AND HIDDEN CAMERAS: THE NEW GADGETS AND THE NEW EDITORIAL CHALLENGES
- How are hidden cameras being used to expose corruption and human rights violations around the world
- What new regulatory and legal challenges may restrict hidden camera use
- What editorial guidelines are needed to curb unwarranted use of hidden cameras?
Session Chair: Gillian Findlay, Correspondent, CBC, Canada
Featured Speakers:
Dorothy Byrne, Head of News & Current Affairs, Channel 4 News, UK;
Mark Daly, Undercover Reporter, BBC, UK;
Esther Enkin, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, CBC, Canada;
Al Harrad, Engineer, OzTex, UK;
Donal MacIntyre, Investigative Reporter, UK;
Adrian Peter, Reporter, SWR/ARD, Germany;
Produced by: Edith Champagne, News Xchange
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| 1745 - 1800 |
NEWS XCHANGE CLOSE
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| 1800 - 1930 |
CBS News Happy Hour in the Orion Room
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