Can the EU do more for a healthy media sector?
Date
23 Jan 2019 11:00 to 14:30
Address
Fondation EURACTIV
Boulevard Charlemagne 1, 2nd floor
Brussels
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Section
InfoSociety
Event Location
Brussels
Event Description
Healthy democracies need a healthy media sector. Yet, faced with multiple attacks and challenges, notably technological and financial, the sector needs a coordinated response.
- Is the EU pulling its full weight, beyond countering disinformation?
- Can the existing instruments help?
- How to anchor this as a priority for the next legislature and Commission?
10:45 Registrations
Opening speech: Jávor Benedek, MEP
11:00-12:30 Panel 1: Media independence for quality debates
Moderator: Stephen Boucher, Fondation EURACTIV
- Julie Majerczak, Reporters Sans Frontières
- James Deane, BBC Media Action
- Ides Debruyne, Journalism Fund
- Q&A
12:30-12:45 Keynote speaker: Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
12:15-13:15 Buffet lunch
13:15-14:30 Panel 2: What can the the EU do for the media sector’s sustainability?
Discussant and moderator: Christophe Leclercq, Fondation EURACTIV
- Pr. Luciano Morganti, VUB
- Marie Sellier, Vivendi
- Urbán Ágnes, Mérték
- Max von Abendroth, Dafne
- Elmar Brok, MEP
- Maria João Rodrigues, MEP
- Q&A
Concluding words:
- Maria João Rodrigues, MEP
- Jávor Benedek, MEP
This interactive conference is co-organised by Fondation EURACTIV and the Greens/EFA group. It is part of the Europe’s Media Lab series.
Please register here
For more information please contact: Nathalie Bargues, nathalie.bargues@euractiv.com, +32 (0)2 788 36 68.
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