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Learn more about our speakers, panels, discussions and events planned for the 2019 DW Global Media Forum.
Join us for the 12th annual DW Global Media Forum to discuss the challenges posed by "Shifting Powers" around the world.
Experts from all over the world will attend the Global Media Forum in 2019 to weigh in on the debate on shifting powers. Here's a selection of confirmed speakers that will be in attendance of the conference.
For the first time, DW's Global Media Forum is running a boot camp for media start-ups. We're inviting you to pitch your media start-up to international investors and a global audience.
A daring journalist who has spent her career reporting on drug cartels and corruption in Mexico, Anabel Hernández is the fifth person — and first woman — to receive the DW Freedom of Speech Award.
Since 2012, the Global Media Forum fellowship program has welcomed up to 200 participants from around the world each year. In 2019, it will expand and have its own capacity and skills-building event.
Mariya Gabriel - Commissioner for Digital Economy, European Commission
Hamid Karzai - former President of Afghanistan
Carmen Perez - National Co-Chair of Women's March & Executive Director of The Gathering for Justice, USA
Frank-Walter Steinmeier - President of Germany
Shirin Ebadi - Lawyer, a former judge and human rights activists and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center, Iran
Tom Buhrow - Director General of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Germany
Michelle Müntefering - Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office
Noam Chomsky - Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist, USA
Anne Boyson - researcher, analyst and founder of "After the Millinnials"
Jeff Jarvis - American journalist, professor, public speaker and former television critic, USA
Rokhaya Diallo - Journalist and activist in France
Bassem Youssef - Political satirist, writer, producer, physician, media critic and television host, Egypt
Sarah Harrison - British journalist, legal researcher and WikiLeaks section editor, UK
Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Founder of Open Russia, Russia
With top guests and delegates from around the world, the DW Global Media Forum is one of the biggest media conferences.
Here is a helpful list of questions that have been asked before about the Global Media Forum.
Learn more about the DW Global Media Forum and its history - the international media conference organized by Deutsche Welle (DW).
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