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Journalism Polarized World Participants Journalism Sally Begbie is the ombudsman for Kathy English has been public editor IN A the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS of the Toronto Star since 2007. She is Australia) and vice president of ONO. responsible for upholding the standards Previously, she was head of journalism at of daily and weekly news organizations Charles Sturt University. across the Torstar Corporation’s publishing platforms and for responding to Polarized Lars Bennike is the viewers’ editor of audience concerns. TV 2 Denmark. Earlier in his career, he was the European Union correspondent in Alix Freedman is the global editor for World Brussels and, later, at TV 2 DK, executive ethics and standards at Reuters. She works producer and managing editor. closely with reporters and editors on major stories and holding the newsroom Russ Buettner is an investigative reporter to standards consistent with the Thomson for The New York Times and, along with Reuters Trust Principles. colleagues, a winner of a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Trump’s finances. Todd Gitlin is a professor and chair, Ph.D. program at Columbia Journalism School John Carney is economics and finance and the author of 16 books. editor at Breitbart. Prior to that, he worked for The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. Murray Green is a media development and regulatory adviser working on Paul Chadwick is global readers’ editor projects principally in the Asia Pacific. for The Guardian, based in London. A He teaches media law at the University of June 5–8, 2019 journalist and lawyer, he was previously Technology Sydney. Previously, he was at Columbia University the director of editorial policies for the the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, New York, NY Australian Broadcasting Corporation. where he was the inaugural ombudsman. George Claassen is the public editor Mathew Ingram is the chief digital writer of News24 and Media24 in South Africa for Columbia Journalism Review. His and the director of the Centre for Science writing has appeared in Fortune magazine, and Technology Mass Communication at The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Stellenbosch University. He is the author and the Financial Times. of numerous books on quackery and pseudoscience. Elizabeth Jensen joined NPR in January 2015. As public editor, she answers Efrat Daskal completed her Ph.D. in thousands of listener and reader queries media policy at The Hebrew University each year, writes a column, and works with of Jerusalem and is currently researching NPR member stations to present public internet policy. conversations about decision-making. Richard Davis is executive vice president David Jordan has been the director of of news standards and practices at CNN. editorial policy at the BBC since 2005. He was named to this position in 1998 and Prior to that, he was an editor of flagship is based at CNN’s headquarters, in Atlanta. politics and current affairs programs on TV and radio for 15 years before becoming ONO General Meeting Peter Deurmann is the head of legal the chief advisor politics in 2003 and then Saturday, June 8, 2019 affairs at Aller Media, a magazine taking charge of editorial policy. publisher in the Nordic countries, 10:00am – 12:00pm headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Room 601B Pulitzer Hall Columbia University ONO members only PROGRAM PROGRAM Day One Day Two Participants (continued) 9:15am Welcome 9:15am Why Ethical Journalism Matters Tom Kent teaches at Columbia University, Tim Pauwels is the news ombudsman for Kyle Pope and Bjarne Schilling Kyle Pope with Craig Newmark where he focuses on international VRT NWS, the news service of the Flemish- reporting, journalism ethics, and Belgian public broadcaster. As a journalist, 9:30 Covering Trump in a Partisan Age 9:45 Facebook and Social Media the problems of disinformation and he has covered national politics for many propaganda. Prior to that, he was the years. CHAIR Kyle Pope Mathew Ingram with Efrat Daskal standards editor for the Associated Press Russ Buettner and the president and CEO of Radio Free Kyle Pope is the editor and publisher of 10:15 Break Europe/Radio Liberty. Columbia Journalism Review. Previously, 10:30 Is the News Media Fair to Conservatives? he worked as an editor at Condé Nast, Kathy English CHAIR 10:30 The Aller Media Controversy Karen Mahabir is the head of fact The Wall Street Journal, and The New York John Carney, Todd Gitlin, and Kelly McBride checking for the Associated Press, focusing Observer. Lars Bennike with Peter Deurmann on accountability journalism and the debunking of misinformation. She has been David Regev is the ombudsman of the 11:40 Break 11:00 Misinformation, Deep Facts, and a journalist for more than 20 years, working Second Authority for Television and Radio Fact Checking domestically and internationally, and Israel, running an office that handles holds a master’s degree in international approximately 7,000 complaints per year. 12:00pm The Dossier, National Security, and the Lars Bennike CHAIR Ethics of Trump journalism from the City University of Prior to that, he worked for Israel’s largest Tom Kent and Karen Mahabir London. newspaper, Yedioth Aharonot. Ben Smith 11:45 Perceived Biases Kelly McBride has been on the faculty Bjarne Schilling has been serving as the 12:45 Lunch Tim Pauwels of the Poynter Institute since 2002 and is Readers’ Editor at Politiken, Denmark’s its senior vice president. She is also the largest morning paper, since 2010. He was Craig Newmark Journalism Ethics Chair of elected president of ONO at its conference 1:30 Reporting on the Chasm: Brexit and Trump 12:45pm Lunch the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and in Amsterdam last year. He is a member of Paul Chadwick CHAIR Leadership at Poynter. the board of JP/Politikens Hus A/S and The Richard Davis and David Jordan 1:15 Livestreaming the Christchurch Terrorist Politiken Foundation. Jack Nagler has been the ombudsperson Attack and Its Consequences Margo Smit 2:30 Challenges of Reporting in Divided Times for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is vice chairman of the Global Sally Begbie CHAIR since January 2019. Investigative Journalism Network and Elizabeth Jensen CHAIR Murray Green and Phil O’Sullivan has been the ombudsman at Dutch public Diego Sorbara, Richard Davis, and Phil O’Sullivan is the editor of broadcaster NPO since 2015. Alix Freedman 2:00 How Polarized Journalism Has Spread newsgathering at New Zealand’s TVNZ 1 News. He is a former on-air reporter with Ben Smith has been the editor in chief of Around the Globe the network, and spent 15 years working BuzzFeed since January 2012. Previously, 3:40 Shoptalk: Is The Media Ombudsman Still an Bjarne Schilling CHAIR with CNN in Hong Kong and the Middle he was a senior political writer for Politico. Effective Mechanism? Panneerselvan Anypuram, George Claassen, East. Margo Smit CHAIR David Regev, and Cynthia Ottavanio Diego Sorbara is ProPublica’s standards Cynthia Ottaviano, Argentina’s first editor. Before that, he worked for The New * * * defender of the public for communications, York Times and the Rocky Mountain News, in 3:15 Der Spiegel Plagiarism Scandal has been a journalist for 30 years and a Denver. Jack Nagler CHAIR professor and academic researcher for 20 5:00 ONO Board Meeting Ignaz Staub years. Ignaz Staub has been the ombudsman Board members only for the Swiss publisher Tamedia Inc. since A.S. Panneerselvan is the readers’ editor 2010. Prior to that, he worked as a foreign 3:30 Shoptalk of The Hindu, a columnist, and a journalism editor and foreign correspondent for the educator. He is an advisory member of the Zurich daily Tages-Anzeiger. 4:45 Closing Remarks Knight International Journalism Fellowship Kyle Pope and Bjarne Schilling program and has lectured widely on Indian media and politics. * * * 7:00 Conference Dinner Cruise Yacht Manhattan II, departs Chelsea Piers.
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