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Satire and media: Zapovednik | DW Global Media Forum 2019

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2020 was an extraordinary and challenging year, which the Global Media Forum met head-on with digital solutions. The 2021 Global Media Forum will explore further ways to help us address such disruptions with innovation.  Go to article  

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GMF compact: the changing face of work

One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic everyone agrees that the nature of work and employment has changed for good. But is this new industrial revolution really beneficial for all involved? Let's take a look beyond the world zoom meetings and working from home.  

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GMF compact: the changing face of work

GMF compact: the changing face of work

GMF compact: the science behind Elon Musk

GMF compact: the science behind Elon Musk

GMF compact: what's in a jab?

GMF compact: what's in a jab?

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GMF talk: science and sensibility with Dr. Andreas Kappes

Why do people fall for conspiracies? Why do some follow their leaders while others don't? Are scientists today's superstars? Dr. Andreas Kappes from CITY University London shares his thoughts.  

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GMF talk: science and sensibility with Dr. Andreas Kappes

GMF talk: science and sensibility with Dr. Andreas Kappes

GMF talk: Lord Michael Dobbs navigates with us through fact and fiction

GMF talk: Lord Michael Dobbs navigates with us through fact and fiction

Simon Kolawole: Mob censorship in Nigerian media is real

Nigeria I Simon Kolawole I Unternehmer und Journalist

The Nigerian journalist and publisher of TheCable says that while Twitter and Facebook may help professional media organizations in their distribution, they also create the biggest spaces for mobs to congregate.  

Jean-Pierre de Kerraoul: EU proposal endangers editorial confidentiality

Jean-Pierre de Kerraoul - Präsident der ENPA

Protecting sources is an important aspect of press freedom and journalism. The president of the European Newspaper Publisher's Association (ENPA) sees dangers in a new EU proposal for electronic data transfer.  

DW Global Media Forum: bringing minds together

DW GMF 2019 | Fellows Day | Workshops | Closing Ceremony

Digitally yours: the DW Global Media Forum fellowship program

For eight years, the GMF fellowship program has welcomed a total of over 1,000 people from all around the world. In 2020, the initiative had to go online because of COVID-19. This year, it will continue digitally.  

Plenary Session: The future of local journalism

Global Media Forum: The place made for minds

Learn more about the Global Media Forum, the international media summit organized annually by DW, Germany’s international broadcaster. As COVID-19 continues, GMF has sought digital ways to keep the conversation going.  

  • Global Media Forum Frank-Walter Steinmeier 01.07.2014 (DW/M. Müller)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "The freedom of the press is facing pressure on a global scale, not just abroad. I want to encourage journalists: Democracy needs you all urgently."

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier - President of Germany

  • Talk: The future of the digital economy (DW/P. Böll )

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Do governments truly have the capacity to understand emerging technologies? Communication regulations from the 1970s are not going to work for 2019."

    Juliana Rotich - tech entrepreneur, Kenya

  • Jaron Lanier (DW/F. Görner)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Algorithms pick up on negative feelings such as fear and accentuate them. This has led to the creation of fear-based politics all over the world."

    Jaron Lanier - computer scientist and author, USA

  • Tanit Koch (picture-alliance/Geisler-Fotopress/C. Hardt)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "As broadcasters, we should not only focus on what people want to know but also what the should know. Social media should help us more in doing that."

    Tanit Koch - director general at N-TV, Germany

  • Armin Laschet (DW/R. Oberhammer)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We have to make clear that Europe has certain principles. Those who violate them will be subject to sanctions. This also applies to press freedom."

    Armin Laschet - Premier of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany

  • Keynote: Mariya Gabriel (European Commission, Commissioner for Digital Economy, Bulgaria) (DW/P. Böll)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Pluralism requires that the media are free, diverse, independent and sustainable."

    Mariya Gabriel - Commissioner for Digital Economy, European Commission

  • Keynote: Hamid Karzai (Former President of Afghanistan, Afghanistan) (DW/U. Wagner)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We need to address the daunting challenges to development by engaging with multiple centers seeking balance rather than overreliance on one country."

    Hamid Karzai - former President of Afghanistan

  • Keynotes Anne Boysen (DW/U. Wagner)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "'Being a digital native means your whole reality id determined by the interconnection between your digital and non-digital realities."

    Anne Boyson - researcher, analyst and founder of "After the Millinnials", USA

  • Michael Dobbs (DW/P. Böll )

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Social media has divided us. Instead of listening to the news, people now listen to the echoes of their own prejudices."

    Lord Michael Dobbs - politician and author of "House of Cards", UK

  • Deutschland Bonn - Deutsche Welle GMF 2017 - Carmen Perez (DW/K. Danetzki)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We use social media in order to control our own narrative."

    Carmen Perez - National Co-Chair of Women's March & Executive Director of The Gathering for Justice, USA

  • Can Dündar (DW/Barbara Scheid)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "It's difficult to form a relationship with a politician who's acting like a tyrant. What questions can you ask when this person can put you in jail?"

    Can Dündar - former editor-in-chief of "Cumhuriyet", Turkey

  • Ann Hollifield (DW/K. Danetzki)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "If we truly believe that journalism is important to our society, we should enlist our fellow citizens and involve them as a community service."

    Dr. Ann Hollifield - news and media researcher, USA

  • GMF Global Media Forum 2013 Noam Chomsky (DW/M. Magunia)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation."

    Noam Chomsky - Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist, USA

  • Keynote: Michelle Müntefering (German Federal Foreign Office, Minister of State, Germany) (DW/P. Böll)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "In these times of digital propaganda and disinformation, independent media organizations are a major bastion of liberty and democracy."

    Michelle Müntefering - Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office

  • Impulse: Tom Buhrow (WDR, Director General, Germany) (DW/P. Böll)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "I believe that in the digital age, public broadcasters have a more important role to play than ever before."

    Tom Buhrow - Director General of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Germany

  • Karen Palmer (DW/R. Oberhammer)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Artificial intelligence is just computer code. But I'm scared of what certain people's goals and objectives are. What you use it for matters."

    Karen Palmer - digital filmmaker, UK

  • Jeff Jarvis: GMF Speaker 2014 (DW/S.Wünsch)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "The future of journalism is the people."

    Jeff Jarvis - American journalist, professor, public speaker and former television critic, USA

  • Shirin Ebadi: GMF Speaker 2008 (DW/GMF)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Journalists must see themselves as members of a big family and stick together."

    Shirin Ebadi - Lawyer, a former judge and human rights activists and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center, Iran

  • GMF Bassem Youssef (DW/M.Müller)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "Satire was our weapon to dissect through the lies and rhetoric that were used to control the people."

    Bassem Youssef - Political satirist, writer, producer, physician, media critic and television host, Egypt

  • 39 | TV Show | From muse to maestra: How female is culture today? (DW/U. Wagner)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "No one's above the law."

    Rokhaya Diallo - Journalist and activist in France

  • Deutschland Bonn - Deutsche Welle GMF 2017 - Mikhail Khodorkovsky (DW/K. Danetzki)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "I hope people in the West can distinguish between the Kremlin and Russia; Putin and Russia."

    Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Founder of Open Russia, Russia

  • GMF Sarah Harrison (DW/K. Danetzki)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We should all be protected by the same press freedom."

    Sarah Harrison - British journalist and WikiLeaks section editor, UK

  • Anne Applebaum, Historikerin & Pulitzer Prize-Preisträgerin

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We need ombudsmen for algorithms. We need some insight into them if we are to maintain our democratic political system."

    Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum

  • Philippinen Maria Ressa - Filipino Journalist and Autor, CEO Rappler

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We will continue to do our best, because I believe we do make a difference. That's our way of fighting back: more journalism."

    Maria Ressa, co-founder of the news website Rappler in the Philippines

  • DW Global Media Forum | The power of influencers — and what they mean for democracy

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "They kicked me out of Iran, but I am there every day through social media."

    Iranian women's rights campaigner Masih Alinejad

  • EU-Kommissarin für Justiz und Verbraucherschutz Vera Jurova.

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    The public sphere is up against an "avalanche of lies"

    Věra Jourová, the European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, said during the digital session on "Battling disinformation in the public sphere"


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