IPI WORLD CONGRESS & 57th GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BELGRADE 2008
Between 14 and 17 June 2008, some 400 editors, media executives, and leading journalists from 62 countries gathered in Belgrade for the IPI World Congress and 57th General Assembly. It was the second time – after Ljubljana in 2002 – that IPI held its annual general meeting in the former Yugoslavia. It was also the first IPI World Congress to be convened under the leadership of the new IPI Director, David Dadge.
PROGRAMME
Saturday, 14 June 2008
19:30 Welcome Reception and Dinner a Ušće Tower
Sunday, 15 June 2008
10:00 Opening Ceremony at Parliament Building
Welcome
Hari Stajner, Chairman, IPI Belgrade Host Committee
Mirjana Milošević, Director, Media Center, Belgrade
Opening Remarks
Piotr Niemczycki, Publisher, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, and Chairman of IPI
David Dadge, Director of IPI
Keynote Speaker
Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia
12:30 Lunch at Sava Center
13:30 “Neighbours, Partners, Rivals: Perceptions of South East Europe”
Moderator
Tim Judah, Balkans Correspondent, The Economist, and Author, London
Panelists
Vladimir Gligorov, Senior Economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Vienna
Drago Hedl, Editor, Feral Tribune, Split
Senad Pecanin, Director, Dani, Sarajevo
Biljana Srbljanovic, Playwright, Belgrade
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 “When the Guns Fall Silent: An International Perspective on Fostering Reconciliation”
Moderator
Denis Murray, BBC Ireland Correspondent, Belfast
Panelists
Munther Dajani, Director, Issam Sartawi Center for the Advancement of Peace and Democracy, Al Quds University, Jerusalem
Daphna Golan, Director, Partnership for Social Change, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Barney Mthombothi, Editor, Financial Mail, Johannesburg
19:30 Opening Reception and Dinner
City Hall and Skadarlija Bohemian Quarter
Monday, 16 June 2008
Sava Center
09:30 “New Media: New Opportunities, New Threats”
Moderator
Roy Greenslade, Media Commentator and Columnist; Professor of Journalism, City University, London
Panelists
David Kurtz, Managing Editor, Talking Points Memo, New York, NY
Dejan Restak, Website Director, B92 FM, Belgrade
Christoph Schultheis, BILDblog, Berlin
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 “Are Profits Killing the News? (Focus on Europe)”
Moderator
William Green, Editor, TIME Europe, London
Speakers
Vuslat Dogan Sabanci, CEO, Hürriyet, Istanbul
David Montgomery, CEO, Mecom Group plc, London
Michael Ringier, Chairman of the Board, Ringier AG, Zurich
13:00 SEEMO Human Rights News Agency Photo Award
Presented by Oliver Vujovic, Secretary General, South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), Vienna
13:15 Lunch
14:30-17:00 SEEMO Regional Meeting: “Private News Agencies in South East Europe” (Part I)
15:30-17:30 IPI General Assembly for IPI Members only
19:30 Cocktail Reception
White Palace
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Venue: Sava Center
09:00-11:30 Parallel Session: SEEMO Regional Meeting: “Private News Agencies in South East Europe” (Part II)
09:30 “Chasing the Story: The Challenges of Transnational Investigative Journalism”
Moderator
Galina Sidorova, Editor-in-Chief, Sovershenno Secretno, Moscow
Panelists
Stefan Candea, Co-Founder, Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Bucharest
Misha Glenny, Journalist and Author, London
Daniele Moro, Editor-in-Chief, "Tg5", Canale 5, Milan
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 “Reporting America”
Moderator
Alison Smale, Managing Editor, International Herald Tribune, Paris
Panelists
Hafez Mirazi, Vice Chairman, Al Hayat TV, Egypt; former Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Jazeera, Washington, DC
Gene Policinski, Vice President and Executive Director, First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN
Matthias Schepp, Moscow Bureau Chief, Der Spiegel, Hamburg
13:00 Lunch
14:30 IPI Open Forum: “The Limits of Tolerance on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
Moderator
Joe Treaster, Knight Chair for Cross-Cultural Communication, University of Miami School of Communication, Miami, FLA
Panelists
Robert Russell, Executive Director, Cartoonists’ Rights Network International, Washington, DC
Sawsan Zaidah, Radio Director, AmmanNet, Amman
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Closing Ceremony
Presentation of the “Free Media Pioneer 2008”
awarded to Talking Points Memo, New York, NY
David Kurtz, Managing Editor, Talking Points Memo, New York
Presentation of the 2009 IPI World Congress and 57th General Assembly in Helsinki, Finland
19:30 Farewell Dinner at Belgrade Fortress
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
09:30-18:30 SEEMO Regional Conference: “Media, Marketing and Business (Focus on New Media)”