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Save the Date for the DW Global Media Forum: May 27-28, 2019

The global power balance is swiftly changing, creating both challenges and new opportunities for the media. Join us for the 12th annual DW Global Media Forum in Bonn to discuss these "Shifting Powers."  

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A Glimpse of the 2018 Global Media Forum

The GMF is one-of-a-kind gathering that brings together the best and the brightest decision-makers and influencers from the worlds of journalism, digital media, politics, business, civil society and academia.  

Eleven years DW Global Media Forum

  • 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

  • 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

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

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "The internet does not only change the communication on foreign policy but it changes policy itself."

    Frank-Walter Steinmeier - President of Germany

  • 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

  • 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

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

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

    "We need to talk about the discrepancy between the conditions for propaganda and those for fact-based journalism."

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

  • 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

  • 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"

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • GMF Sarah Harrison (DW/K. Danetzki)

    DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

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

    Sarah Harrison - British journalist, legal researcher and WikiLeaks section editor, UK

  • 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


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Session | Digital (in)equalities: How to ensure equal access for all (DW/U. Wagner)

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