Monday 4 June
08.00 – 09.00 Registration at Soria Moria Hotel
09.00 – 09.30 Welcome speeches by Mr Mohammad Nuh, Minister of Information and Communication, Indonesia and Mr Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs Norway
09.30 – 10.30 Plenary Session 1: Primetime for Diversity - Journalism in a Troubled World
Speakers: Mr Doudou Diene, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of racism
Ms Agnes Callamard, Executive Director Article 19
Moderator: Ms Shada Islam, DPA
10.30 – 11.00 Interviews and coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Diversity in practice
Lessons learned. Experiences from Reporter Exchange between Indonesia and Norway
Speakers: Mr Rullah Malik, Metro TV, Mr Ove Sjøstrøm, TV 2.
Moderator: Ms Retno Shanti Ruwyastuti, Metro TV
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 China in focus: Journalists as Human Rights Defenders?
Ms. Serenade Woo, Head of Hong Kong Journalists Association.
Interviewed by Ms. Anne Grosvold, Norwegian Broadcasting Cooperation
14.15 – 17.00 Parallel Sessions
1. Identifying challenges
Government vs. terrorism. “War on terror” – at what cost?
Reporting in/on states in transition. Extremism.Corruption. Technology.
Speakers: Ms Jamila Omar, Afghanistan (tbc)
Mr Jamil Azar, Senior Producer, Al Jazeera, Qatar (tbc)
Moderator: Mr Joe Torres, Fillippines
2. Ethical journalism in hostile environments/troubled times
Reporting diversity. Fair representation of the other. Market driven journalism. Citizen journalism. Self regulation vs. user provided content and internet communities.
Speakers: Ms Nidzara Ahmetasevic, Bosnia
Mr Zafar Shoban, Bangladesh
Moderator: Mr Rami Abdelrahman, Jordan
3. Empowering journalists
Recruiting talent and diversity. Informed journalism. Diversity training. Workplace training. Mentoring networks. Broadening exchanges.
Speakers: Mr Ade Armando, University of Indonesia
Mr Daniel Kalinaki, Bureu Chief East African, Uganda
Moderator: Mr Jim Tucker, New Zealand
18.00 Dinner and entertainment by Queendom at Soria Moria Hotel
21.00 Jazz with Dag Andersen, Terje Gewelt og Pål Towsen. Playing Edvard Grieg and Norwegian Folk Music at Soria Moria Hotel
Tuesday 5 June 2007
09.30 – 10.30 Plenary session 2: Balanced coverage in war and peace
Russia in focus. Freedom of expression.
Speakers: Mr Ilya Kriger, Novaja Gazeta (tbc)
Ms Irina Rachkovskaya, REN TV
Ms Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Russian Union of Journalists
Mr Gregory Shvedov, International Memorial
Moderator: Ms Siri Lill Mannes, TV 2
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.00 Plenary session 3: Practical solutions to reporting diversity
Speakers: Mr Adel Darwish, The Middle East Magazine, England
Mr Endy Bayuni, The Jakarta Post, Indonesia
Moderator: Mr Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News Daily, Saudi Arabia
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Parallel Sessions continue
1. Identifying challenges
2. Ethical journalism in hostile environments/troubled times
3. Empowering journalists
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 16.45
Plenary session 4 and Final Reporting from the Parallel Sessions
Moderator: Mr Bambang Harymurti, Tempo Magazine (tbc)
17.30 Bus from Soria Moria Hotel to the harbour for boat trip and dinner
18.00 The boat “SS Johanna” leaves Rådhusbryggen