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Agenda, News Xchange 2005 |
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| Wednesday 9 November |
| 1500 - 1700 |
INSI AGM (more information at www.newssafety.com) |
| 1830 - 2030 |
Opening Reception, hosted by NOS and Netherlands Public Broadcasting at the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) on Dam Square, across from the Krasnapolsky Hotel |
| 2030 - 2300 |
Opening Night Party, hosted by Television News, in the Krasnapolsky Hotel's Winter Garden. |
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| 0930 - 0935 |
Welcome from Gerard Dielessen, Director General, NOS. |
| 0935 - 1000 |
YEAR OF BREAKING NEWS: From Tsunami to Pakistan Earthquake –
A video report from AP Television News.
Plus: Reflections, with video contributions from: Timothy Garton-Ash, historian-writer; Bernard-Henri Lévy,
philosopher-writer; Stephen Lewis, special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa; Susan Moeller, author, "Compassion Fatigue";
Oh Yeon Oh, founder of Ohmy News; Ken Wiwa, journalist-author; and Dr. Akbar Ahmed, Islamic scholar.
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| 1000 - 1115 |
24 HOUR NEWS: ALL NEWS, ALL THE TIME, ALL OVER THE WORLD
25 years after Ted Turner and CNN changed the broadcast news world, we are now awash in 24 hour news channels and about to see
the launch of many more. This year marks the 10th anniversary of BBC World and next year, Fox News also celebrates that landmark.
Britain's Sky News, viewed around the world, has been on the air for sixteen years.
But it's not just English-language news channels that have changed the world. We now have the Arab language powerhouses led
by Al Jazeera that reach an estimated 40 million people. Then there are the new launches about to take place-Al Jazeera
International, its English-language version; a French-language 24 hour channel; Russia Today, Russia's television English-language channel; Telesur
a new Hispanic channel in Venezuela, and a joint Reuters-Times of India channel that becomes one of 30 all-news channels in India.
This session will examine: Why such an explosion of all-news channels? Who are the target viewers?
How do they distinguish themselves from the competition in terms of their formats, style, and journalism?
Will the BBC's new guidelines about accuracy over firstness, delayed showing of troubling images (i.e. Beslan, New Orleans)
influence other channels, already criticised by an ITV journalist, calling it a "negation of modern television journalism"?
Will the new channels offer different news agendas, pay more attention to the developing world rather than focusing
on sensational "American" stories such as the Michael Jackson trial? How do they survive and make a profit?
Or only those that have state or governmental subsidies Al-Jazeera, or Deutsche Welle-have secure futures?
Finally, we look at the broadband revolution that may mean that, as media critic Jay Rosen points out, means
"your website is your cable channel."
Moderator: Susan Ormiston, presenter and correspondent, CBC News
Part 1 - Rolling News and Big Events
Contributor: Helen Boaden, director of news, BBC; Chris Cramer, managing director, CNN International;
Heaton Dyer, program director, CBC Newsworld; Luis Rivas, director de l'information et de l'Antenne, Euronews;
John Ryley, executive editor, Sky News
Part 2 - The New Players
Contributors: Salim Amin, Africans Together Video Project; Ulysse Gosset, director,
France Television Group (in charge of international news channel project); Andrés Izarra, president, Telesur;
Rajdeep Sardesai, founder, TV18, India; Margarita Simonyan, chief editor, Russia Today
Produced by: Edith Champagne, CBC
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| 1145 - 1300 |
THE JOURNALISM OF IMMEDIACY
A companion discussion related to 24 hour television news channels.
What are the consequences of reporters and anchors/presenters originating live coverage from remote
locations where the real information is still fed from editors in their news centres?
What are the alternatives to working this way? What networks have rejected what Martin Bell, ex BBC called "rooftopping?"
Part 1 - Is Being There Really Being There?
Contributors: James Brabazon, freelance journalist; Nik Gowing, main presenter, BBC World;
Elizabeth Palmer, international correspondent, CBS News; Nic Robertson, senior international correspondent, CNN;
Arnim Stauth, international correspondent, WDR.
Part 2 - Broadband and the New Website Channels
Contributors: Paul Jay, founder, Independent World Television News Channel; Larry Kramer, president, CBS Digital Media;
Kevin Sites, "In the Hot Zone" for Yahoo News
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| 1300 - 1315 |
THE MOHAMED AMIN AWARD PRESENTATION
The Mohamed Amin award was established in 1997 to honour the work of the late Mohamed Amin in bringing news pictures
to the world and to reward any individual or company for their achievement in newsgathering. In addition to the
awarding of this award, Salim Amin, chief executive of Camerapix, presents a brief preview of a major new documentary
series about the life and times of his father.
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| 1500 - 1630 |
NEW TECHNOLOGY: REMAKING JOURNALISM OR UNDERMINING IT?
Just two years after News Xchange Budapest and NHK gave us a glimpse of the future possibilities for using mobile phones to
transmit news pictures, broadcasters routinely air mobile video as part of their breaking news coverage. The most memorable
images from the coverage of the recent London and Bali bombings came from mobile phones and consumer video recorders.
The new news providers are dubbed "Citizen Journalists", the term coined by the innovative Oh My News Agency in South Korea.
But how long before broadcasters display faked phone images or face major lawsuits from citizens who don't want to be recorded?
What lessons have been learned to-date?
This session will draw together the best and newest applications broadcasters around the world have been using both to deliver
news on demand and to pull their audiences in - news bulletins and news channels delivered to all formats - mobile phones; blogs
and podcasts; pictures and stories contributed by viewers and listeners.
Moderator: Stephen Sackur, presenter, "Hard Talk", BBC
Contributors: Merrill Brown, author, "Carnegie Report: Abandoning the News";
Paul Dolan, executive director of international and cable business development, ABC News;
Rebecca Mackinnon, Research Fellow, Harvard University School of Law - Berkman Center for Intenet & Society;
Akia Ogawa, Paris Correspondent, NHK; Oh Yeon Oh, founder, Ohmy News;
Richard Sambrook, director, global news, BBC World; Kaapo Seppanen, head of business development, Channel 4 Finland;
Nicholas Wheeler, managing director, ITN Multimedia
Produced by: Fiona Anderson, BBC
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DEALING WITH TRAUMA
It has been a year where reporters have braved a series of natural disasters and haunting images from the Tsunami to
Hurricane Katrina to the Pakistan earthquake. How do newsrooms prepare journalists to cope with covering
large-scale human suffering?
Moderator: Mark Brayne, European director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma
Contributor: Alex Gerlis, BBC College of Journalism
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| 1715 - 1720 |
Day One Close |
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