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Agenda, News Xchange 2005 |
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| 0915 - 1045 |
FACING UP TO CHINA: IS THE COVERAGE OF CHINA "FAIR AND BALANCED" OR ARE OLD STEREOTYPES BEING REINFORCED?
In a year in which the world's media attention has begun to focus on China as an economic and military superpower,
News Xchange focuses on how this transformation is being covered and reported on. Are networks opening new bureaux and posting
correspondents more frequently in China? Is China loosening up its restrictions on outside journalists?
Do news organisations self-censor their reporting in order to maintain a presence in China or protect their
networks in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics? How are "cyber dissidents" eluding frequent Chinese crackdowns and exposing
human rights violations inside China?
Moderator: Jim Clancy, anchor and correspondent, CNN International
Contributors Vincent Brossel, head of Asia desk, Reporters sans Frontières;
Jaime Florcruz, Beijing Bureau Chief, CNN, Peter Herford, journalism instructor, Shantou University;
David Schlesinger, Global Managing Editor, Reuters; Dr. Wen Guang Shao, managing director, Phoenix Chinese News & Entertainment Ltd
Produced by: David Lindsay, CNN
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| 1045 - 1100 |
TRIBUTE TO THE RORY PECK TRUST SONY IMPACT AWARD WINNER
This award recognises a freelance video journalist "who with courage and passionate involvement is committed to
recording ongoing conflicts and issues around the world." The Rory Peck Trust Award winners will be announced in a gala event on Tuesday, 8 November, in London.
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| 1115 - 1245 |
THE INSI SAFETY DEBATE
INSI has in the past year launched a world-wide inquiry into why a record number of journalists are being killed and
murdered around the world. INSI has already held sessions in Kuala Lumpur, Doha, and London and convenes again here at News Xchange in Amsterdam.
This year's INSI's session will focus on the preliminary findings of the Inquiry and testimonies of those most at
risk-local journalists who are constantly under threat in many countries.
Moderator: Elizabeth Palmer, international correspondent, CBS News
Contributors: Akaki Gogichaisvili, host and executive producer, Rustavi 2, Georgia;
Sergei Karazy, cameraman, Reuters, Ukraine; Alastair Macdonald, Baghdad Bureau Chief, Reuters, Marcy McGinnis, vice president, CBS News;
Rodney Pinder, director, International News Safety Institute; Richard Sambrook, head of global INSI inquiry into deaths of journalists;
Richard Trotti, director, press freedom, Inter-American Press Association
Produced by: News Xchange and INSI
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| 1430 - 1600 |
REPORTING ISLAM
News Xchange 2005 unveils the findings of a major new study on the perceptions of Islam in Europe and the United States.
Are the media contributing to "Islamophobia" or providing responsible news and current affairs coverage of Muslims inside
and outside their own countries? Based on this study, how are Arabs and Muslims portrayed in the media?
U.S. and European experts in Islamic and Middle East Studies contribute their thoughts to a News Xchange-produced video
highlighting the results of the study.
Then a major session focussing on how broadcasters have coped with the outpouring of anti-Islam feelings after 9/11,
the Madrid bombings, the London bombings and the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, and what reactions may
likely follow the London bombings (if the perpetrators are linked to Al Qaeda or an Islamic fundamentalist group)
What are broadcasters doing to probe this issue, expose real dangers to their countries and cities, and avoid
inflaming ethnic and religious communities?
Moderator: Charles Groenhuijsen, anchor and reporter, NOS News
Part 1 - Results of a major new international study - "Western Perceptions About Islam and Muslims"
- conducted by Communique Partners and underwritten by the Kuwaiti Islamic and Cultural Affairs Ministry
Contributors Akbar Ahmed, chairman of Islamic Studies, American University;
John Esposito, Center for Muslim Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Chris Yalonis, president, Communique Partners
Part 2 - Reporting on Islam and Muslims
Contributors: Abdul Bari Atwan, editor, Al-Quds Al-Arabi; Yosri Fouda, host and executive producer, A l Jazeera Satellite Channel;
Sharmen Obaid-Chinoy, filmmaker; Step Vaessen, NOS Indonesia;
Produced by: Gerard van den Broek, NOS
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| 1600 - 1715 |
PORN OR DISASTER: HAS TELEVISION NEWS GOT IT WRONG ON GLOBAL WARMING AND WEATHER?
Weather "porn" or looming disaster? Is television news scaring viewers with the latest weather forecasting technology or
are thye helping to inform the public about an increasingly threatening condition due to global warming?
Moderator: Jon Snow, anchor, Channel 4 News
Contributors: Bill Hare, international policy advisor on climate issues, Greenpeace;
Bjorn Lomborg, author, "The Skeptical Environmentalist"; George Monbiot, columnist, The Guardian (UK);
Andrew Tyndall, publisher, "The Tyndall Report"
Produced by: Dorothy Byrne, Channel 4 UK
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| 1715 - 1730 |
NEWS XCHANGE CLOSE |
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| 1730 - 1900 |
CBS NEWS HAPPY HOUR |
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