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News Xchange 2006: Istanbul
as of 22 September 2006




Friday 3 November Agenda for Thursday, 2 November


0800 - 0930 Breakfast screening of "Mo & Me", Salim Amin's documentary about his father, photojournalist Mohamed Amin. Sponsored by Jerusalem Capital Studios (JCS).
0945 - 1045 Who's Making the News?
Audiences are swamping news organisations with mobile phone video and stills, e-mails, texts, blogs and more. The BBC, for example, gets 10,000 e-mails and hundreds of pictures every day. So how much is this audience participation changing the landscape of journalism? Is this 'user-generated content' just a passing fad, or an integral part of all our futures? What is the potential of user-generated content? And what are the pitfalls and legal and ethical dilemmas around using it? With the daily possibility of being hoaxed, how do we authenticate it - how do we know what's true?

Produced by the BBC College of Journalism. It trains BBC journalists in the uses and abuses of audience participation and user-generated content. With Pete Clifton, Head of BBC Interactive, and Charles Leadbeater, leading authority and advisor on innovation and creativity in organizations; Tony Burman, Editor in Chief, CBC News, Current Affairs, and Newsworld; Premesh Chandran, Founder and CEO, Independent Malaysiakini.com. Chaired by Huw Edwards, Presenter, BBC News.
1045 - 1100 Presentation of the Mohamed Amin Award by Reuters and Salim Amin


1100 - 1130 COFFEE BREAK


1130 - 1135 Dutch broadcaster and media consultant Jonathan Marks's video report on IBC 2006
1135 - 1300 Technology: Don't blink. The times they are a'changin'.
News Xchange 2006 puts you ahead of tomorrow's conventional wisdom about where it's all going.

The long tail. Narrowcasting. Time-shifting. Broadband channels. Social networking. Video-sharing. The way we receive and share information is changing, and players such as YouTube, MySpace, and Google Video are leading the way. Niche programming is in; some say traditional broadcasting is out. Is this the death of linear TV?

With contributions from Patrick Walker, Head of Content Partnerships for Google Video; Neil Budde, General Manager and Executive Producer, Yahoo! News; Joe Trainor, Vice President of Narrowstep; Lindsay Charlton, Project Manager, ITV Local; Mark Lukasiewicz, Vice President, Digital Media, NBC News; Andrew Hawken, Editorial Director, Online, Sky; Matt Cowan, Correspondent, Reuters Report.

Chaired by Jian Ghomeshi, broadcaster, writer, producer.


1300 - 1445 LUNCH


1445 - 1545 Keynote: Turkish Prime Minister RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN

Is Turkey at the tipping point? With new polls showing Turks increasingly opposed to membership in the EU, and the EU publishing its latest report on Turkey's qualifications to join, is time running out on this NATO country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia? What fallout for Turkey from the disintegration of Iraq? Can the government of Prime Minister Erdogan contain the Kurdish separatist movement and tame Turkish nationalism?

Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Prime Minister of Turkey in March 2003. He heads the AKP (Justice and Development Party) Before turning to national politics, Erdogan established his power base in Istanbul where he was elected mayor in 1994. Described in a BBC profile as a "charismatic leader," Prime Minister Erdogan promises to provoke a lively debate about Turkey and its future!

Chaired by Gisele Khoury, presenter, Al Arabiya

Among contributors to a discussion on the future of Turkey following Prime Minister Erdogan's keynote address will be author and journalist Elif Shafak, and Jim Bittermann, Senior European Correspondent, CNN.


1545 - 1700 Turning Ten
Three broadcasters who have changed the media world and upended the global news agenda turn ten this year. News Xchange marks the occasion.

Al Jazeera Managing Director Wadah Khanfar and Yosri Fouda, London Bureau Chief and Chief Correspondent, discuss the Al Jazeera effect. With contribution from Sawsan Zaidah, Programme Producer, AmmanNet, and Ulysse Gosset, France 24.

Also turning ten: Fox News and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Chaired by Lawrence Pintak, Director, Adham Center for Electronic Journalism, and author of Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam & the War of Ideas.


1700 - 1705 Day Two Close


  Immediately following close of Day Two:
CBS News cocktail party, Manzara Restaurant




Agenda for Thursday, 2 November




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