A New Diplomacy roundtable to address reform of public service and independent media
Time & Date: 11.30-14.00, Wednesday 5 July 2017 (coffee from 11.15, sandwich lunch included)
Venue: Conference Room, Gintama Hotel, 9 Trekhsvyatytelska Street, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001
(five minutes' walk/400 metres from Independence Square – www.gintama.com.ua)
Languages: English and Ukrainian (simultaneous interpretation provided)
Space is limited. Attendance by confirmation only. Please RSVP to: kyiv@newdiplomacy.net
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AGENDA FOR MEDIA REFORMS: What priority steps can be taken, and by whom, to:
• strengthen the sustainability of new and existing independent media outlets?
• establish and ensure the editorial independence and high-quality, balanced news programming of public service broadcasters?
• raise the quality of news reporting and editorial and production standards at national and regional levels?
• counter disinformation through winning audience loyalty through combining quality programming with accurate, balanced, and inspiring news reporting
Participants: International media experts from Eastern Partnership countries and the EU, including:
➢ Krzysztof Bobinski, President, Unia a Polska Foundation/co-Founder, New Diplomacy (moderator)
➢ Тetyana Honcharova, TV and radio presenter, Era FM, Ukraine
➢ Rita Ruduša, Executive Director, Baltic Centre for Media Excellence, Latvia
➢ Zurab Alasania, Director General, Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine
➢ Hrihoriy Shverk, MP, Member of Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy, Ukraine
➢ Heiko von Debschitz, Adviser, International Relations Department, ZDF Television, Germany
➢ Oles Doniy, Chairman, Art Association “Last Barricade", TV presenter, Ukraine
➢ Boris Navasardyan, President, Yerevan Press Club, Armenia
➢ Daria Yurovskaya, Director of Programmes, Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine
➢ Oleksiy Mustafin, General Producer, News Department, Ukraine Channel
➢ Ehtel Halliste, Communications Expert, Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership
➢ Dmytro Khilchenko, Director, Digital Platforms, Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine
➢ Olena Solodovnikova, New Diplomacy Fellow, and Reporter, Road Control newspaper, and Force-news.com, Ukraine
➢ Emin Milli, Director, Meydan TV, Germany/Azerbaijan
➢ Tatiana Kotyuzhynskaya, President, Ukrainian Association of Media Lawyers
➢ Natia Kuprashvili, Executive Director, Georgian Association of Regional Broadcasters
➢ Andriy Kulakov, Program Director, Internews Ukraine
➢ Tetyana Popova, Strategic Communications expert, NGO "Information Security", Ukraine
➢ Sergei Komlach, Senior Project Co-ordinator, Euroradio, Poland/Belarus
➢ Olha Vyazenko, Special Correspondent, TV channel 1+1, Ukraine
➢ Celia Davies, Strategy & Communications Manager, Meydan TV, Germany/Azerbaijan
➢ Taras Semenyuk, Founder, short.media, Ukraine
➢ Kyryl Loukerenko, Editor-in-Chief, Hromadske Radio, Ukraine
➢ Oleksander Buzyuk, Hromadske Radio, Ukraine
➢ Jeff Lovitt, Founder and Chair, New Diplomacy
New Diplomacy aims to contribute to raising the standards of reporting and to increase sharing of knowledge and news reporting skills across Eastern Partnership countries, and through the New Diplomacy Eastern Partnership Journalism Fellowship has in 2016/2017 placed journalists from Georgia and Ukraine in EU countries for five weeks in a placement in leading international broadcast or print media in those countries, such as German media, ZDF public television and Spiegel Online. The programme is supported by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
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