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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."

Confirmed speakers for the Global Media Forum 2019

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.

Delegates attending the Global Media Forum 2018 (DW/F. Görner)

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

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

Mariya Gabriel - Commissioner for Digital Economy, European Commission
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
DW Global Media Forum: a decade of top speakers

"No one's above the law."

Rokhaya Diallo - Journalist and activist in France
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
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
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