Вебинар Европейской федерации журналистов: Противодействие политическому вмешательству в СМИ (19 и 20 апреля)

Jour­nal­ists and media organ­i­sa­tions in Europe have been fac­ing unprece­dent­ed polit­i­cal pres­sure in recent years and espe­cial­ly dur­ing the Covid pan­dem­ic cri­sis. Such attempts may stem from politi­cians request­ing to alter or halt the pro­duc­tion of cer­tain news sto­ries to con­trol the flow of infor­ma­tion; smear cam­paigns to dis­cred­it jour­nal­ists con­sti­tute anoth­er threat to media free­dom; a third type of inter­fer­ence is through nation­al laws such as recent Covid restric­tions on media, which may pre­vent the dis­sem­i­na­tion of infor­ma­tion even though that is a mat­ter of pub­lic inter­est.

To reduce the poten­tial harm on media inde­pen­dence caused by such var­i­ous polit­i­cal pres­sures, the webi­na­rs aim to gath­er com­mit­ted organ­i­sa­tions and pol­i­cy-mak­ers defend­ing media inde­pen­dence to find ways and mech­a­nisms to counter polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence in media and to main­tain the inde­pen­dence of media in Europe.

REGISTER

You may reg­is­ter to join the webi­na­rs on Day 1 here and on Day 2 here.

AGENDA

Mon­day, 19 April 2021

11:00 – 11:40: “Why does media inde­pen­dence mat­ter to us?”

Anna Donath, MEP, Hun­gary 

Ramona Stru­gar­iu MEP, Roma­nia

Yana Toom, Esto­nia, MEP, Esto­nia 

Mas­si­m­il­iano Smeriglio, MEP, Italy

Mod­er­a­tor: Renate Schroed­er, EFJ Direc­tor 

11:40 – 12:55: “The sta­tus of media inde­pen­dence in Europe: An illib­er­al turn?”

Dr Vaclav Stet­ka, Lough­bor­ough Uni­ver­si­ty, UK

Marc Gru­ber, researcher and media con­sul­tant 

To be con­firmed 

Mod­er­a­tor: Maja Sev­er, Pres­i­dent, Croa­t­ian Trade Union of Jour­nal­ists

12:55 – 1:00: Wrap up – End of Day 1

Tues­day, 20 April 2021

13:00 – 13:05: Wel­com­ing and intro­duc­tion

13:05 – 14:00: Case stud­ies
“Build­ing inde­pen­dent media to counter polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence in in chal­leng­ing regimes”: Belarus, Turkey and Ukraine

Intro­duc­tion and Mod­er­a­tion: to be con­firmed, OSCE Rep­re­sen­ta­tive on Free­dom of the Media 

Ali­na Stepanovic Jour­nal­ists’ Asso­ci­a­tion of Belarus (BAJ)

Mustafa Kuleli, Jour­nal­ists’ Union of Turkey (TGS)

Sergiy Tomilenko, Nation­al Union of Jour­nal­ists of Ukraine (NUJU)

14:00 – 15:55: In EU and appli­cant coun­tries: Aus­tria, Mace­do­nia and Spain

Gre­gor Kucera, Aus­tria (GPA)

Mari­na Tune­va, North Mace­do­nia, Press Coun­cil

Joan Bara­ta Spain (PDLI)

Mod­er­a­tor: to be con­firmed

16:00 – 16:30: “EU poli­cies and instru­ments to ensure media inde­pen­dence”

To be con­firmed 

Elda Bro­di, Cen­tre for Media Plu­ral­ism and Free­dom

To be con­firmed

Mogens Blich­er Bjer­regård, Pres­i­dent, EFJ