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Can the EU do more for a healthy media sector?

Fondation EURACTIV

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Date

23 Jan 2019 11:00 to 14:30

Address

Fondation EURACTIV

Boulevard Charlemagne 1, 2nd floor

Brussels

Belgium

Links

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.