9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Moderators
Fraser Cameron is Director of Victoria is a policy the EU-Asia Centre in Brussels, communications expert with an a think tank seeking to promote international mindset and a far- closer relations between the EU reaching network in Brussels and Asia. He is a former and beyond. European Commission advisor Dr Fraser and well known policy analyst Ms Victoria She launched Cambre’s CAMERON and commentator on EU and MAIN thriving technology practice as international affairs. well as the award-winning Brussels Calling debates with He is the author of several leading journalists covering the books and articles on the EU EU. and external relations. His recent books include An Victoria began her career as a Introduction to European journalist, most recently with Foreign Policy, The Future of Reuters in London, but also in Europe and US Foreign Policy Brussels, Hong Kong, Milan, after the Cold War (published by Paris and Wellington. Routledge).
Keynote Speakers
Ms Claire BURY is Deputy Charles Chong was first elected Director-General of DG into Parliament in 1988 and is CONNECT, in charge of digital currently its Deputy Speaker. economy & coordination and media & data, among others. In January 2018, he was appointed by Parliament to Ms Claire BURY She has previously served in Mr Charles chair a Select Committee to various DGs in the areas of CHONG study Deliberate On-Line information society, public Falsehoods – Causes, international law, corporate Consequences and governance and the Countermeasures. digitalisation of the single market. The Select Committee released its report on 20 September 2018.
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Participants
Zaffar Abbas is the Editor of Paolo Cesarini is Head of the Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest and Unit responsible for media most prestigious English convergence and social media language newspaper. This is his within DG Communication 37th year in journalism. During Networks, Content and this period he has worked for Technology at the European Mr Zaffar several news organisations, Mr Paolo Commission. ABBAS including 16 years for the BBC CESARINI World as one of its Pakistan He previously held other correspondents. management positions in the Commission, namely in DG As Dawn’s editor he has Competition where he was continued to maintain a robust responsible for antitrust position on the issue of enforcement and legislation (in freedom of the press, and the the media, consumer goods, newspaper is recognized by basic industries, agricultural almost everyone in the country and manufacturing sectors) as the real champion for the from 2001 until 2010. cause.
Mr. Mahfuz Anam is the Editor– Since 2004 Joachim has been Publisher of The Daily Star, the a journalist for the public highest selling English broadcaster Polish Radio. newspaper in Bangladesh. During that time, he was the During his Editorship (1993–till Head of the English and date), The Daily Star has Hebrew Sections of the Mr Mahfuz become the most respected, Mr. Joachim External Service. He was also ANAM quoted and trusted newspaper CIECIERSKI responsible for the Euranet+ of this country. He pursued a European multimedia project vigorous editorial policy of spearheaded by the European strengthening democracy, Commission, covering freedom of expression, freedom European news from 16 of media and fundamental countries. rights. Joachim is currently Head of Before launching The Daily Star, the German Service of Radio he worked for 14 years with Poland. Since 2017 Joachim UNESCO in Paris, New York and also teaches radio journalism Bangkok. He was awarded at the University of Social Jefferson Fellowship in Sciences and Humanities. Journalism in 1976 by the Honolulu based East - West Center.
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9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
Maria was born in Tomsk, David Dieudonné started his Russia, in 1990. Then moved to journalism career at “Reporters Uzbekistan (it was USSR) and, Without Borders”, supporting after finishing school, moved journalists in jail. back to Russia. Maria graduated from the Moscow Previously, he was Agence Ms Mariia State University and started to Mr David France-Presse Deputy bureau BALIABINA work on "Voice of Russia" radio. DIEUDONNÉ chief in Marseilles. Previously, Now it is radio Sputnik. he was a reporter engaged in international temporary crises Maria covers international assignments, such as piracy in political subjects and attend the Indian Ocean, the 2010 global international events as a earthquake in Haïti, and the member of Kremlin and war in Afghanistan. governmental journalist pools. David Dieudonné is Google News Lab Lead in France, since March 2016.
Shaili Chopra is an Indian Since January 2018, business journalist, author and Christophe Leclercq is one of entrepreneur. As a business the experts on the High-Level journalist, she is known for Expert Group (HLEG) on working at NDTV-profit and disinformation. He leads the ETNOW and has won the 2012 new projects #Media4EU and Ms Shaili Ramnath Goenka Award for Mr Christophe Stars4Media (Erasmus4Media). CHOPRA Excellence in Business LECLERCQ He also teaches notably at Journalism. She was named Institut d’Etudes one of India's 50 most Européennes/ULB (Brussels). influential women in media, marketing and advertising by Previously, Mr. Leclercq was EU Impact Magazine. Commission official with DG Competition (coordinator for In 2014, she released a book Information Society), and on politics in the age of social management consultant with media. In 2015, she started a McKinsey. digital website called 'SheThePeople', which focuses on women journalism.
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9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
Zakir Hussain is Foreign Editor Raegan is Head of EU Public at The Straits Times, Policy at Mozilla. Originally from Singapore’s main English- Canada, she is based in language daily. He joined the Brussels, and covers a range of newspaper in 2005 and has tech-policy issues including reported on politics, security privacy, data protection, Mr Zakir and foreign policy, and held Ms Raegan copyright, and disinformation. HUSSAIN various roles including political MACDONALD Prior to joining Mozilla, Raegan editor and Indonesia bureau founded and led Access Now’s chief. Brussels office; and prior to that, she worked at European He has a bachelor's degree in Digital Rights (EDRi). She is history and politics from Oxford also a member of the European University, and a master's Commission appointed High degree in journalism from Level Expert Group on "Fake Columbia University. News" and the Multistakeholder Forum on Disinformation.
Thanchanok Jongyotying is Iain Martin has been the Asia currently the International News Editor for Storyful since 2014. Editor at Spring News Network. Storyful has a team of seven She has been in broadcasting people in its Hong Kong bureau media for over 12 years, both working to discover and verify as presenter as well as news the best stories and content Ms Micky producer and editor. Mr Iain MARTIN emerging from social media in JONGYOTYING Asia. Iain joined Storyful in Recently, she focuses more on 2012 after working as a the changing of media scenario; financial journalist in London the rise and effects of digital since 2007. media. As international news editor, she has been assigned to oversee online content, in parallel with broadcasting platform.
Currently, she also hosts a TV show on international and ASEAN News on Thailand’s Channel 19.
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9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
Li Yang has been working as a Giselle is a foreign reporter at reporter of China Daily since the Flemish daily De 2010, when he graduated from Standaard. She is concurrently the Communication University a doctoral researcher in history of China with a doctoral degree at Ghent University, with in communication studies. research interests in socio- Mr LI Yang Ms Giselle economic policies, He has worked in China Daily’s NATH consumerism as a movement. opinion and business news departments and bureaus in Guangxi, Shanghai and Sichuan over the past eight years.
Jacque Manabat started as a Giles Portman is head of the journalist in 2006. She is East Stratcom Task Force in the assigned to cover the business European External Action beat since 2014. She reports Service in Brussels. The Task on the transportation, Force was established by the energy/power sectors, and, European Council in 2015 to Ms Jacque from a consumer perspective, Mr Giles promote EU policies in the MANABAT does stories on trade and PORTMAN Eastern Neighborhood, commerce. strengthen media in the region, and improve capacity to Today, she ranks among ABS- anticipate and respond to CBN News' outstanding disinformation. He is a member reporters, both in mastery of of the Council of Experts of the her subject and commitment to Democratic Progress Institute, her craft. a London based NGO.
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9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
Cod Satrusayang is the Antonio Scala is Master degree managing editor at Asia News in Physics and Computer Network. Before that he was a Science (Napoli "Federico II"), correspondent for Reuters and PhD in condensed matter the German Press Agency. His Physics (Boston University) and works have appeared in the specialist in Operational Mr Cod New York Times, the Atlantic, Mr Antonio Research and Decision SATRUSAYANG the Guardian and a myriad of SCALA Strategies (Roma "La other publications. Sapienza").
He works as research scientist in the CNR Institute for Complex Systems. He is consultant for the topic of fake news on the web, member of the National Research Council (CNR) and author of several publications on the topic. With prof. Quattrociocchi, he has demonstrated quantitatively the existence of echo- chambers in online social media.
Assel is a reporter at the Astana Renate Schroeder is the Times, the leading English- director of the EFJ and has language newspaper in worked for the organisation for Kazakhstan. She has previously more than 20 years. The EFJ been with the Kazakh Ministry focuses its work on social and of Foreign Affairs and served as professional issues relating to Ms Assel a translator for the European Ms Renate the enormous changes SATUBALDINA Union in Kazakhstan. SCHROEDER affecting the media industry. It supports member unions in both North, South, East and Western Europe to foster trade unions and to maintain or create environments in which quality and journalistic independence can be, become or return to be a reality.
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9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
Mr Sinha advises on matters Jochen works for Germany's relating to Information international broadcaster Communication Technologyin Deutsche Welle in the India concerning citizens, Research and Cooperation industry and government. He Projects unit. Besides overall has advised the Chair on coordination, his topical focus Mr Astik SINHA issues relating to ‘Net Mr Jochen is on social newsgathering, Neutrality’, Citizens Data SPANGENBERG verification of user-generated Privacy & Security, ‘Fake News’, content and the use of ‘Internet Governance’, ‘Norms & eyewitness media for news Guidelines for Media Coverage’ reporting. This includes amongst others. Prior to 2012, participation in the EC co- he worked with a New Delhi funded research projects based think tank, spent a year REVEAL (completed) and InVID in news media and helped set (running until 12/2018) both up YouthKiAwaaz.Com, India’s dealing with algorithm- largest youth led news website. supported verification of social media content, and the development of Truly Media, a platform for collaborative verification, launched in late 2017.
Van Tran is currently the Deputy Dr. Marius TIțA has been with Head of Social and Political Radio Romania International News Desk at Viet Nam News, since 1990, serving as Viet Nam’s national daily correspondent in London, English language newspaper. Brussels and Chisinau over the She joined the newspaper in years. In 2006, he became Ms TRAN 2007 after graduating from the Dr. Marius TIțA Editor-in-Chief. His interest Thi Thu Van Diplomacy Academy of Viet areas have included defence Nam with a major in and security policy, European International Relations. In and international affairs, and 2010, Van got the Fulbright public policy, having gained a Student Scholarship and PhD in Economics in 2003. pursued her master degree in journalism at Hofstra University, New York.
Her journalism focus is on issues of social, economic and environmental justice, including gender parity, children's rights and all forms of inequality.
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9th ASEF Editors’ Roundtable (ASEFERT9) 15-16 October 2018, Brussels Exploring the Battlefronts of ‘Fake News’: A Tripartite Approach to the Fight Against Misinformation
Martin Vengadesan is news Juliane is the founder of Lie editor with the Star Media Detectors, an independent Group. He has been with the journalist-led news-literacy organisation since 1996. campaign raising awareness of disinformation and media bias He began as an entertainment among European Mr Martin journalist but since 2010 has Ms Juliane VON schoolchildren and their VENGADESAN been in the digital department, REPPERT- teachers. She directs Lie initially overseeing the BISMARCK Detectors’ development and company's iPad app and strategy. subsequently handling breaking online news. Juliane represents Lie Detectors within the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Digital Disinformation and Fake News and has advised politicians and lawmakers on anti- radicalisation in an age of media pluralism. An award- winning journalist, Juliane previously wrote for MLex, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Newsweek, Spiegel Online, the Toronto Globe and Mail and others.
Eric Wishart is a former editor- Aidan White is the Ethical in-chief of the international Journalism Network's news agency AFP and is president, an honorary position currently a member of its global created by the charity’s board news management with after he stepped down as responsibility for special director in 2018. White Mr. Eric editorial projects. Mr Aidan founded the EJN in 2012 after WISHART WHITE serving as the general Since 2012 he has worked on secretary of the International special editorial projects for the Federation of Journalists (IFJ) AFP global news management, for 25 years. drawing up a new AFP charter, code of ethics and sourcing White has written extensively guidelines. He is a regular on human rights, ethics and speaker at conferences and in journalism issues and played a the media on the challenges of leading role in establishing fake news and disinformation, International Freedom of focusing on how AFP is dealing Expression Exchange (IFEX), a with them as a news agency. global network of free expression campaigners.
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