New media expands press freedom
08-02-2007 (Paris)
Neil Budde, the General Manager of Yahoo!, Oh Yeon-Ho, the founder of the Ohmynews online newspaper, and a wide range of new media and press freedom advocates will join the Conference "New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension" to be held in Paris next week.
The event, to be held on 15 and 16 February at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, will examine the challenges and opportunities of new media for press freedom.
The conference will look at how new media is expanding press freedom -- and what repressive regimes are doing to restrict the free flow of information.
The event, organized by the World Press Freedom Committee, the World Association of Newspapers and UNESCO, will examine:
The Paris-based WAN, the global organization for the newspaper industry, defends and promotes press freedom world-wide. It represents 18,000 newspapers; its membership includes 76 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and 10 regional and world-wide press groups.
Participation in the conference is free and there is still time to register at here.
The conference will look at how new media is expanding press freedom -- and what repressive regimes are doing to restrict the free flow of information.
The event, organized by the World Press Freedom Committee, the World Association of Newspapers and UNESCO, will examine:
- "New Media -- Expanding Press Freedom",
- "New Media in New Democracies",
- "New Media Under Challenge",
- "Direct Satellite Broadcasting/Digital TV/Public Service Broadcasting - Opportunities for Diversity",
- "News Online",
- "How Young People Get Their News",
- "Bloggers as Journalists/Local News and New Media/Citizen Media",
- "Circumventing the Censors" .
The Paris-based WAN, the global organization for the newspaper industry, defends and promotes press freedom world-wide. It represents 18,000 newspapers; its membership includes 76 national newspaper associations, newspaper companies and individual newspaper executives in 102 countries, 12 news agencies and 10 regional and world-wide press groups.
Participation in the conference is free and there is still time to register at here.
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- Larry Kilman, WAN
- Mogens Schmidt, UNESCO, Division of Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace
- WAN Press Release
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