IPI Launches Report: "Brave News Worlds", Reflecting on Future of the Media
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13.09.2010 "Gone are the days of woe-is-us. What’s emerging is a much sharper focus on how news can survive and even thrive going forward" - IPI Report Editor
The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), the world's oldest global press freedom organisation, relaunched the IPI Report series today with the publication of "Brave News Worlds".
The Report, featuring 42 contributors from across the globe, was produced in collaboration with the Florida-based Poynter Institute, one of the premier journalism training centres in the world and edited by Bill Mitchell, head of the Poynter Institute's Entrepreneurial Journalism and International Programs.
"Brave News Worlds", the first IPI Report produced since 2000, features articles under three broad headings: "The Journey Ahead", "Paths with Promise" and "Reports from the Road", detailing possible futures for the news industry, areas of the news media that are thriving during the downturn and case studies from across the world.
Contributors include several of the speakers from IPI's World Congress, currently underway in Vienna, and prominent bloggers, editors, consultants and media law experts.
With a focus on effective solutions and lessons to be learned, as well as providing stimulus for debate, the Report serves to be a compass, rather than a map, pointing the global media towards a successful and sustainable future for journalism.
Speaking to IPI ahead of the launch event at the IPI World Congress, Mitchell said: "The ideas and strategies packed into this report reflect an important shift. Gone are the days of woe-is-us."
"What's emerging is a much sharper focus on how news can survive and even thrive going forward. The report provides special emphasis on the relationship between journalism and civic life, with specific, useful examples of who's doing what around the world to sustain the critical linkage between the two."
Tagged with keywords and including an introduction and chapter conclusions from
Mitchell, the Report features contributions from:
Salim Amin, Chairman, A24 Kenya; Endy Bayuni, Former Editor, Jakarta Post;
Sihem Bensedrine, Co-founder, kalimatunisie.com; Alison Bethel McKenzie,
Interim Director, International Press Institute; Paul Bradshaw, Co-founder,
Help Me Investigate; Steve Buttry, Director, Community Engagement TBD;
Yuen-Ying Chan, Founder & Director, Journalism & Media Studies Centre,
Hong Kong University; Premesh Chandran, CEO, Malaysiakini.com; Sheila Coronel,
Director, The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism; Anthony Dara, CEO NN24 Nigeria; Karen
Dunlap, President, Poynter Institute; William Dutton, Director, Oxford Internet
Institute; Robin Esser, Chairman, Society of Editors UK; Jean-François Fogel,
Author, Une Presse Sans Guttenberg; Mario Garcia, Founder, Garcia Media; Dan
Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship; Roy
Greenslade, Media Columnist, The Guardian; Ferial Haffajee, Editor-in-Chief,
City Press; Steve Herrmann, Editor, BBC News Online; Jeff Howe, Contributing
Editor, Wired Magazine; Jeff Jarvis, Author, What Would Google Do?; Alex Jones,
Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public
Policy, Harvard; Rajesh Kalra, Editor, Times Group, India; Daoud Kuttab,
Director General, Community Media Network, Jordan and Palestine; Steven Lang,
Editor, Grocott's Mail, South Africa; Solana Larsen, Editor, Global Voices;
Juanita Léon, Editor-in-Chief, lasillavacia.com; Patrick Meier, Director
Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships, Ushahidi; Turi Munthe, CEO,
Demotix; Soe Myint, Editor-in-Chief, Mizzima News; Bill Nichols, Managing
Editor, Politico; Grzegorz Piechota, Vice-President, International Newsmedia
Marketing Association, Europe; Susan Pointer, Director, Public Policy &
Government Relations (Europe), Google; Geoffrey Robertson, QC and Founding
Partner, Doughty Street Chambers; Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief, The
Guardian; Fernando Samaniego, Media Consultant; Mark Scott, Managing, Director,
Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Clay Shirky Author, Cognitive
Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age; Andrei Soldatov, Editor,
Argentura.Ru; Damian Tambini, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics;
Takashi Tanemura, Consultant, Digital Strategy and Planning Bureau, Nikkei
Japan; Paul Tash Editor, St Petersburg Times; Louis Ureneck, Chair, Department
of Journalism Boston University.
Copies will be available after the presentation of IPI Report: "Brave News
Worlds" at the Hotel Savoyen at 11am, 13 September. Alternatively, please
contact IPI for a copy on
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