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Two new panel discussions at the Congress
Last Updated (Friday, 11 July 2008 14:24) Written by Sigurd Allern Friday, 13 June 2008 14:51
Two new panel discussions, both open for the public, will be arranged during the IAMCR Congress. On July 22 (14.00-15.30) the seminar topic will be: ”Media, politics and the Olympics in Beijing”. On July 24 (16.00-17.30) the topic will be ”Journalism and Crises Communication”.
The Olympics-seminar will take up the different roles of news media and journalism in the coverage and debates about the coming Olympic Games in Beijing. The arrangement will as always be a global media event - and a media spectacle - involving the leading commercial players of the international media industry. In most countries national sports strategies and strong commercial media interests melt together.
At the same time the news media around the world, not least in Europe and the US, have used the coming Olympics in Beijing to publish critical reportages about the lack of press freedom and freedom of speech in China. The organization Journalists without borders has organized protests and listed several demands that should be fulfilled by Chinese authorities before the Beijing Olympic games. State leaders have been encouraged to withdraw from the Opening ceremony.
The seminar will discuss these questions and especially take up the mixed role of journalism and journalists in the different stages of this debate. Should the Olympics only be arranged in countries living up to certain standards concerning democracy and human rights? Or is the most important aspect the chance to open up a dialogue and use the Olympic games as an arena for other types of journalism than the televised coverage of the sports events?
Participants in the panel: Yuezhi Zhao (associate professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada); Hu Zhengrong, professor, Communication University of China; Niklas Ekdal, political chief editor, Dagens Nyheter; Göran Lejonhufvud, phd., journalist, researcher & author. Moderator: Sigurd Allern (Professor, University of Oslo, Norway).
The panel discussion on journalism and crises communication will discuss the roles and importance of journalism during periods of disaster, catastrophes and war. During recent years the interest for crisis communication has been increasing. Examples are natural catastrophes (like the Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes and cyclones in China and Myanmar), global threats of epidemics (like the bird flu) and disasters connected to war and terrorism. Journalists inform and interpret, ask questions and evaluate, and produce ‘the pictures in our heads’ about what is going on in the world, sometimes with far reaching political consequences.
Participants in the panel: Barbie Zelizer (Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA – and a former journalist); Kristina Riegert, Associate professor in Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University College, Sweden; Jackie Sutton, Media Projects Manager, UNDP Iraq – and a former BBC journalist; Staffan Sonning, Head of Corporate Strategy of Swedish Radio, former Asia correspondent and former Head of News and Current Affairs. Moderator: Lars Nord, professor, Mid Sweden University.
