IPI WORLD CONGRESS & 49th GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BOSTON 2000
Between 29 April and 3 May 2000 IPI celebrated its World Congress and 50th Anniversary in Boston, USA
PROGRAMME
50th ANNIVERSARY OF IPI
Saturday, 29 April 2000
18:30 Traditional New England Lobster Dinner at the Seaport Hotel (hosted by Fidelity Investments)
Introduction:
H.D.S. Greenway, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Boston Globe, Boston
Welcome Remarks:
Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston
Introduction:
Mary Jo Meisner, Editor and Vice Chairman, Community Newspapers Company, Needham
After-dinner Remarks:
Roger Servison, President, Fidelity Strategic New Business Development, Boston
Sunday, 30 April 2000
16:30 Opening Ceremony
at the Old South Meeting House
Chairman:
H.D.S. Greenway, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Boston Globe, Boston
Keynote Speaker:
Al Gore, Vice President of the United States
"IPI at Fifty"
John P. McMeel, Chairman, IPI American Committee; and President, Universal Press Syndicate, Kansas City, MO
Johann P. Fritz, Director of IPI
Moegsien Williams, Chairman of IPI; and Executive Editor, Independent Newspapers Cape, Cape Town
18:30 Cocktail Reception and Dinner at the Museum of Fine Arts (hosted by The Boston Globe)
Monday, 1 May 2000
09:00 “Human Rights vs. Realpolitik – What is the Right Foreign Policy Mix for the 21st Century?”
Venue: World Trade Center Amphitheater
Chairman:
James F. Hoge, Jr., Editor, Foreign Affairs, New York
Keynote Speaker:
Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
Speakers:
Emma Bonino, European Parliamentarian; and former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Brussels
Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations
Christopher Patten, European Commissioner for External Relations; and former Governor of Hong Kong
Walter Schwimmer, Secretary-General, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45“Broadcasting Trends - Challenges for the Coming Century” (Parallel session A)
Venue: World Trade Center Amphitheater
Chairman:
Tom Brokaw, Anchorman, NBC Nightly News, New York
Panelists:
Eason Jordan, President, Newsgathering & International Networks, CNN, Atlanta
Sanford Ungar, Director, Voice of America, Washington, DC
Anne-Margrete Wachtmeister, Head of Media Unit, Competition Directorate-General, European Commission, Brussels
David Westin, President, ABC News, New York
Henrikas Yushkiavitshus, Assistant Director-General for Communication, Information and Informatics, UNESCO, Paris
10:45 "Does the U.S. Press Have a Credibility Problem?” (Parallel session B)
Venue: Harborview Ballroom, World Trade Center
Chairman:
Edward Seaton, Editor-in-Chief, Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kansas; past President, American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)
Panelists:
Steven Brill, Chairman and CEO, Brill’s Content, New York
Sandra Mims Rowe, Editor, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon; past President, ASNE
Richard A. Oppel, Editor, Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Texas; President, ASNE
12:00 Lunch at the Seaport Hotel
Guest Speaker:
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Chairman, The New York Times Company; Publisher, The New York Times
13:30 “American Culture: The People’s Choice or a Form of Imperialism?”
Venue: World Trade Center Amphitheater
Chairman:
H.D.S. Greenway, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Boston Globe, Boston
Panelists:
Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada, Ottawa
Bronwen Maddox, Foreign Editor, The Times, London
Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations
Arun Shourie, Minister of State (Bharatiya Janata Party); Columnist, New Delhi
15:15 IPI General Assembly (for IPI members only)
19:30 “Evening at the Pops” at Boston Symphony Hall (hosted by The Gillette Company with Dinner provided by Fleet Financial Group)
Tuesday, 2 May 2000
09:15 Campus Day, Part I - Harvard University
Welcome:
Bill Kovach, Curator, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University
Session I
"Race and the American Experience"
Panelists:
Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities; Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies; Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
Cornel West, Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor
William Julius Wilson, Lewis F. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Session II
"Gender and the American Experience"
Panelists:
Carol Gilligan, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Gender Studies
Lani Guinier, Professor of Law
Swanee Hunt, Director of the Women and Public Policy Program and former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Professor of Education
12:00 Luncheon on the Harvard Campus
Welcoming Remarks:
Neil Rudenstine, President, Harvard University
Guest Speaker:
Joseph Nye, Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
13:45 Campus Day, Part II – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Welcome Remarks:
Walter Bender, Director, News in the Future Consortium, Cambridge
Tour of the MIT Media Lab
18:00 Tour and dinner at the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
(hosted by The Freedom Forum)
Introduction:
John Seigenthaler, Founding Editorial Director, USA Today; Freedom Forum Trustee, Nashville, TN
Guest Speaker:
Edward M. Kennedy, Senator of Massachusetts
Presentation of the "Free Media Pioneer 2000" Award
awarded to the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), Lima, Peru
Guido Lombardi, President, IPYS, Lima
Wednesday, 3 May 2000
09:30 Closing Ceremony: World Press Freedom Day
at Faneuil Hall
Introduction:
Moegsien Williams, Chairman of IPI
Keynote Speaker:
Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary General, United Nations
Presentation of "50 World Press Freedom Heroes"
Acceptance Speech on behalf of the 50 Heroes:
Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Washington Post Company, Washington, DC
Federico Mayor, former Director-General, UNESCO
"Appeal to the Leaders of the World"
Presentation of the IPI World Congress 2001, India
12:30 Farewell Lunch at Seaport Hotel
(hosted by The Christian Science Monitor)
Guest Speaker:
Graham T. Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University