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The 15th DW Global Media Forum: Shaping tomorrow, now

On June 20 and 21, 2022, the next DW Global Media Forum will explore opportunities to foster resilient journalism in times of crisis and capacitate civil societies for the future. Go to article

A platform to seek solutions — together

The DW Global Media Forum offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for media professionals as well as decision-makers from politics, civil society, culture, education, business and science from all over the world to get together and to learn from each other as part of an intercultural exchange since 2008.

On June 20 and 21, 2022, we meet again at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany and online to shape the future of journalism, together.

Shaping tomorrow, now

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Top speakers from around the globe

DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

"In democratic societies where we are open to new developments, we have to keep thinking carefully about what freedom really means to us."

Angela Merkel - Federal Chancellor of Germany (2021)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 - Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021, co-founder and CEO of the news website Rappler, Philippines (2020)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

"Independent fact-based journalism has never been as important as it is today."

Armin Laschet - Minister-President of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (2021)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

"We live in a microwave generation. Everyone wants everything too fast, but we have to put in the work."

Leymah Gbowee - Activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Liberia (2021)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

"The word 'disruption' has to be recycled. The idea of a local newspaper is disruptive. The idea to have iPhones and be on the internet is reactive."

Timothy Snyder - Historian, Yale University, USA (2021)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

"It's a pity that when our demonstrations, because of violence and torture, disappeared from the streets, journalists lost a bit of interest."

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - Belarusian opposition leader (2021)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

"What we want in journalism is not optimism and not cynicism, but accuracy."

Steven Pinker - Cognitive psychologist, Harvard University, USA (2021)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

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

Masih Alinejad - Women's rights campaigner, Iran (2020)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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."

Anne Applebaum - Pulitzer Prize winner, USA (2020)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2019)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2019)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2019)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2018)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2018)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2017)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2017)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

“As politicians, we need to keep and defend the values we deem constitutive for our democracy in the analog world in our digital lives, too.”

Monika Grütters, Federal Government Commissionar for Culture and the Media, Germany (2015)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 - Federal President of Germany (2014)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

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

Sarah Harrison - British journalist and WikiLeaks section editor, UK (2014)
DW Global Media Forum: More than 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 (2013)
DW Global Media Forum: More than a decade of top speakers

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

Shirin Ebadi - Lawyer, former judge and human rights activists, founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Iran (2008)