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IPI World Congress Trinidad & Tobago

23-26 JUNE 2012 www.ipiworldcongress.com Programme

13:00 session i: Media in a Challenging World “roundtable Discussion on Freedom of expression a 360 Degree Perspective trends Worldwide” In this session, veteran journalist Peter Preston interviews saturDaY, 23 June 2012 the four special rapporteurs for freedom of expression, who represent the United Nations, the Organization of 09:30 IPI Board Meeting American States (OAS), the Organization for Security (for IPI board members only) and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR). 09:30 Workshop on Covering Corruption

(separate registration required)

16:30 2nd IPI National Committee Meeting Moderator: 19:30 Board Dinner Peter Preston, columnist, The Guardian and The Observer; former editor, The Guardian, UK

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10:30 Opening Ceremony

Panellists: Catalina Botero, OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Wesley gibbings, president, Expression Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers Frank La rue, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Dawn thomas, group CEO, Opinion and Expression One Caribbean Media Limited (OCM) Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of Carl-eugen eberle, chairman of IPI; former director of the Media legal affairs, ZDF - German Television Pansy tlakula, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, ACHPR

Keynote speaker: 14:00 Coffee Break the Honorable george Mtaxwell richards, president of Trinidad and Tobago 14:30 session ii: “executive Director's report: “the state of the state-Owned: the state of Press Freedom Worldwide” a Look at the role of state-Owned Media in Latin america, the Caribbean and elsewhere” In many parts of the world, broadcasters, newspapers and news agencies continue to be owned, controlled or funded by the state. Such media outlets may exist in competition with private or independent media, but often they are the alison Bethel McKenzie, sole source of news and can be misused for propaganda executive director of International purposes. Panellists in this session will examine the state Press Institute of state-owned media around the world and discuss whether government ownership can be beneficial to the public interest, or if it always undermines economic and political freedoms. 12:00 Lunch

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Moderator: Pavol Múdry, founder and former CEO, SITA-Slovak News Agency, Slovakia

Panellists:

Odette Campbell, head of news, Grenada Broadcasting Network, Grenada

Jacqueline Charles, Caribbean correspondent, The Miami Herald, USA Hajime Hikino, senior writer/science news, Chunichi Shimbun, Japan Panellists: sano Malifa, founder and editor-in-chief, Samoa Observer, Samoa Ken ali, CeO, Caribbean New Media Group, Trinidad and Tobago

Poonam Dabas, principal correspondent, Doordarshan 17:30 – 18:30 Regional Network Meetings News, India

Julio e. Muñoz, executive director, Inter American Press Association, USA 19:30 Welcome Reception attila Mong, journalism consultant, Mertek Media Monitor; editor, atlatszo.hu, Hungary

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15:45 Coffee break 09:00 Press Conference “Joint Declaration on Crimes against Freedom of expression”

16:15 session iii: “rising tides: the impact of natural Disasters on Press Freedom” With last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and the devastating earthquake in Haiti two years ago still fresh in everyone's minds, panellists will discuss how natural disasters can impact media freedom. How do governments and companies prevent journalists from accessing the information they need to inform the Catalina Botero, OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of public? What can journalists do to circumvent attempts Expression at censorship? And what role, if any, do governments and civil society have in assisting journalists in doing their Frank La rue, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of jobs under such crisis situations? Opinion and Expression Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Moderator: James Fahn, executive director, Pansy tlakula, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Earth Journalism Network, Expression and Access to Information, ACHPR Internews, USA

nOte: Pre-registration necessary! Please contact the IPI team for press accreditation.

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09:30 session iv: “Journalists Behind Bars: a Conversation with eynulla Fatullayev and nedim sener” Turkish journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Moderator: Nedim Sener spent one year in prison on charges of Davan Maharaj, editor and executive supporting an armed terrorist organisation. Although vice president, The Los Angeles Times, released in March, he still faces trial and a prison USA sentence of up to 15 years, if convicted. Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev spent four years in prison based, in part, on alleged violations of anti-terrorism law.

In this session, moderated by IPI deputy director Anthony Mills, Sener and Fatullayev will discuss their respective experiences behind bars. Why were they really jailed? How were they treated? How did they cope? And why do they remain so defiant? Panellists: Catalina Botero, OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression Cenovia Casas, editor-in-chief, El Nacional, Venezuela Marjorie Miller, Latin America and Caribbean editor, Moderator: Associated Press, Mexico anthony Mills, deputy director, International Press Institute Marcela turati, journalist, Proceso, Mexico

12:15 Lunch

13:15 session vi: “Colonial Legacies – Criminal Defamation in the Caribbean” A colonial legacy, criminal defamation laws remain on the books in many countries in the Caribbean. Experts in this session will discuss the chilling effect of criminal Panellists: defamation on freedom of expression and press freedom and the need to campaign for its abolishment not only eynulla Fatullayev, head, haqqin.az; chairman, in the Caribbean, but also in many developed countries, Public Union for Human Rights, Azerbaijan where their continued existence emboldens repressive nedim sener, investigative reporter and columnist, regimes around the world. Posta, Turkey

10:30 Coffee break Moderator: toby Mendel, executive director, Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada 11:00 session v: “Mexico, Cuba, venezuela: the Big three and their impact on Press Freedom in the region” Mexico, Cuba and Venezuela loom large in the Caribbean region with regard to freedom of expression and press freedom. In Cuba and Venezuela, journalists suffer to varying degrees under repressive regimes, while Mexico’s journalists are being caught in the crossfire

between drug cartels and the military. To what extent is the situation in these countries impacting the media Panellists: policies of other governments in the region? How is the situation for journalists affected? Kwame Boafo, director and representative, UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean

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Wesley gibbings, president, Association of Caribbean Presentation of "iPi World Press MediaWorkers, Trinidad and Tobago Freedom Hero" award

shena stubbs, senior legal advisor/company secretary, David s. rohde, investigative journalist The Gleaner Group of Companies, Jamaica and foreign affairs columnist, Thomson Reuters, USA

14:30 Coffee Break Presentation of “iPi Free Media Pioneer 2012” award

iryna vidanava, founder and editor-in- 15:00 session vii: chief, 34 Multimedia Magazine, Belarus “new Business Models: What’s Working Where” In this session, representatives from different types of media – both traditional and online – and from various parts of the world will provide examples of how they are defying negative global trends through innovation and creativity, and succeeding in making money from tuesDaY, 26 June 2012 journalism. 09:30 Parallel session viii/a: “Manipulating the Media: government advertising as Moderator: a reward or Punishment for Media Outlets” Panellists will examine how governments around the Larry Kilman, deputy CEO and world use advertising to manipulate the media and executive director of communications influence news coverage, placing more government ads & public affairs, World Association of for positive coverage and pulling their ads from ‘negative’ Newspapers and News Publishers, media. What can the media do to resist government France attempts to control them through advertising?

Moderator: Jim Clancy, anchor and correspondent, CNN International, USA

Panellist: ryan Blethen, director, new product strategies, The Seattle Times, USA narasimhan ravi, director, The Hindu, India Charles M. sennott, executive editor and vice president, GlobalPost, USA Panellists: Clive Bacchus, managing director and editor-in-chief, Federation Media Group, Saint Kitts and Nevis 16:30 – 18:00 iPi general assembly (for IPI members only; please present IPI membership anand Persaud, editor-in-chief, Stabroek News, Guyana card or conference badge) eleanora rabinovich, director, freedom of expression program, Association for Civil Rights, Argentina

19:30 gala Fundraising Dinner & awards Ceremony at Hyatt Regency Trinidad, hosted by Surujrattan Rambachan, minister of foreign affairs and communications, Trinidad and Tobago

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09:30 Parallel session viii/B: “Digital Monetization for Media groups” In this session, experts will discuss some of the new ways that media outlets can digitally inform their communities Moderator: and, at the same time, make money from the digital tools David Kaplan, investigative journalist, now available to journalists. Global Center for Investigative - Powered by the IPI News Innovation Contest Journalism, USA

Moderator: ryan Blethen, director, new product strategies, The Seattle Times, USA

Panellists: sheila Coronel, founding director of the Philippine speaker: Center for Investigative Journalists; Toni Stabile Professor simon Morrison, copyright public of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism, policy manager, Europe, the Middle East Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USA and Africa, Google, UK adriana León, press freedom coordinator, Institute for Press and Society, Peru

Juanita León, founder and director, LaSillaVacia.com, Colombia

galina sidorova, chairperson, Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Foundation 19/29; former editor- in-chief, Sovershenno Secretno, Russia

Panellists: salim amin, chairman, A24 Media, Kenya 11:15* Parallel session iX / B: anthony Dara, founder and chief executive, NN24, “going Beyond Borders: Covering Breaking news in Nigeria Your Own Backyard and Making sure Your story gets Out to the rest of the World” Fernando samaniego, chief digital officer and advisor to When the big story breaks, the newspapers and networks the board, Grupo Ferre Rangel, Puerto Rico go into action, sending their major leaguers to the scene – CNN, The New York Times, Al Jazeera. How do you make sure that you can report the story happening 10:45 Coffee break in your own backyard from your point of view and not be overshadowed by the foreign media?

11:15* Parallel session iX/a: Following the Money trail – Covering Organised Crime and Corruption” In this session, an international group of experts will Moderator: tackle issues related to the dangers, obstacles and Wesley gibbings, president, challenges of reporting on corruption and other illegal Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers, activities. How can media deter corruption? How can Trinidad and Tobago investigative journalism be promoted so that the media can expose corruption? Can technology and social networking improve coverage? How can journalists collaborate internationally on investigations into corruption?

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Javier Darío restrepo, head, Fundacíon Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Colombia

Yvette Walker, Edith Kinney Gaylord Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics, University of Central Oklahoma; night news director, The Oklahoman, USA

Panellists: 14:30 session Xi: salim amin, chairman, A24 Media, Kenya “Dateline earth – Covering the environment” Journalists play a crucial role in providing the information ahmad ibrahim, head of investigative unit, Al Jazeera, that policymakers and the public need to understand Qatar the complexity of today’s most pressing environmental challenges. Is the media doing enough to raise Canute James, director, Caribbean Institute of Media and awareness? How can it improve its coverage – in terms of Communication, University of the West Indies, Jamaica both quantity and quality – of this most global of issues? With threats to environmental journalists on the rise, how John Yearwood, world editor, The Miami Herald, USA can journalists protect themselves on the green beat?

12:30 Lunch

Moderator: Curtis Brainard, editor, The 13:30 session X: Observatory, Columbia Journalism “Online Media ethics and the Promotion of Quality Review, USA Journalism in a Changing Media Landscape” As mainstream media increasingly find themselves competing with the Internet and as new technologies and social networking give rise to new forms of journalism, how are the core values of traditional journalism –

such as accuracy, impartiality and editorial oversight – being affected? Are existing ethical codes suitable for today’s different forms of journalism? How can we promote ethical, quality journalism in a changing media landscape? Panellists: Lovelette Brooks, news editor, The Gleaner, Jamaica

gustavo Faleiros, Knight International Journalism Fellow; journalist, O Eco, Brazil Moderator: günther Mayr, head, science news department, Austrian george Brock, professor and head Broadcasting Corporation, Austria of journalism, City University; former managing editor, The Times, UK

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 session Xii: “Moving from the newsroom to the state House: the Journalist as Political Mouthpiece” In this session, panellists will discuss the phenomenon of prominent journalists leaving their jobs with mainstream Panellists: media to work for the government – often as press Kwame Laurence, online editor, Trinidad Express, secretaries, spokespersons or communications directors. Trinidad and Tobago Can, or should, they use their media experience to

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enhance the relationship between government and 18:00 Closing Ceremony media? Are their new jobs, by definition, partisan? Does Diplomatic Center, Port of Spain their presence in the administration lead to favourable treatment of the government in the news media?

Moderator: Kiran Maharaj, president, Trinidad and verena nowotny, partner, Gaisberg Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Consulting; former spokesperson, Association; managing director, CL Austrian Mission to the United Nations; Communications former spokesperson of the federal chancellor, Austria

Keynote speaker: Kamla Persad-Bissessar, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago

reception hosted by the prime minister of trinidad and tobago Panellists: Byron Buckley, associate editor, The Gleaner Company Ltd, Jamaica andy Johnson, CEO, Government Information Services; former host, "Morning Edition," TV6, Trinidad and Tobago Labaran Maku, minister of information and communication, Nigeria Lance Price, writer and political commentator; former director of communications, Labour Party, UK

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Confirmed speakers ryan Blethen director, new product strategies, The Seattle Times, USA

A member of the fifth generation to own The Seattle Times, Ken ali Blethen joined the newspaper’s editorial page in 2005 as CEO, Caribbean New Media Group, an associate editorial page editor. As editor, he wrote a Trinidad and Tobago regular column focusing on media, telecommunications and technology. On 1 January, he left the editorial page to Ken Ali has been the CEO of the Caribbean New Media become director/new product strategies of The Times, where he is responsible Group (CNMG) since 2010. A state-run media company that for crafting the newspaper’s digital strategy and creating new products to reach operates the television station C TV and the radio station both existing and new readers. In addition, he oversees the Yakima Herald- Talk City 91.1, CNMG is the successor company to the now Republic, a Times owned newspaper. Blethen is a graduate of Washington State defunct Trinidad and Tobago Television Company. Previously, Ali served as University. editor of the Trinidad Guardian and executive director of HCU Communications.

Kwame Boafo salim amin director, UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean, chairman, A24 Media; CEO, Jamaica Camerapix, Kenya Kwame Boafo is the director of the UNESCO Cluster Office Salim Amin is chairman of A24 Media, CEO of Camerapix, for the Caribbean and representative to the English- and and founder and chairman of the Mohamed Amin Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries. Born in Ghana, Boafo Foundation. A24 is Africa’s first online delivery site for holds a PhD in mass communication media from Michigan material from African journalists, broadcasters and NGOs. State University, USA. He began his professional career as a lecturer in 1981 Camerapix, launched from a small shop in Dar es Salaam in 1963 by Amin’s late at the School of Communication Studies, University of Ghana. In 1993, Boafo father, the renowned photojournalist, Mohamed “Mo” Amin, has grown into a entered UNESCO as a population communication and research specialist in the modern media company with headquarters in Nairobi. Trained as a journalist Communication and Information Sector at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. From in the UK and Canada, Amin has also worked as an executive producer and 2000-06, he worked as chief of the executive office in the Communication and presenter. His documentary, “Mo & Me,” which chronicles the life of his father, Information Sector. In September 2006, he was named director of the UNESCO won several awards, including the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Cluster Office for the Caribbean. New York Independent Film Festival.

Catalina Botero Clive Bacchus OAS Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression managing director and editor-in-chief, Federation Media Group, Saint Kitts and Nevis The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights named Colombian attorney Catalina Botero Marino as Special Clive Bacchus is the managing director/editor-in-chief of Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression in July 2008. Before Federation Media Group, operators of the privately-owned assuming her current position, Botero worked as auxiliary WINN FM 98.9 and www.winnfm.com. He is an executive of magistrate in the Constitutional Court of Colombia for the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, president of eight years. Previously, she held a number of posts, including director of the the Media Workers Association of St. Kitts and Nevis, and a former managing Consultancy for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the Social editor of the St. Kitts-Nevis Observer newspaper. A Guyanese national, Bacchus Foundation, adviser to the Colombia’s prosecutor general, and professor and is an experienced journalist who has worked as a stringer for the BBC's researcher at the University of the Andes law school. The author of several Caribbean Service, the Associated Press (AP), the Caribbean News Agency books on freedom of expression, constitutional law and international criminal (CANA) and the Voice of America. law, she received her law degree in 1988 from the University of the Andes.

alison Bethel McKenzie Curtis Brainard executive director, International Press Institute editor, The Observatory, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbia University, USA Alison Bethel McKenzie has over 20 years of experience in journalism as a reporter, bureau chief, editor, and trainer. Curtis Brainard has covered science, environment and From 1995-2000, she was senior assistant city editor at medical news for the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) the Boston Globe. In 2000, she joined the Detroit News as since 2006. In January 2008, he launched The Observatory, features editor, then served as the paper’s Washington, D.C. CJR’s first full time department dedicated to critically bureau chief from 2001-06. She joined the Legal Times in Washington, D.C. in analysing science coverage in the media as well as the opportunities and 2006 as executive editor, and the Nassau Guardian, in the Bahamas, in 2007 challenges facing science journalists today. Brainard has master’s degrees in as managing editor. Before joining IPI, she spent a year in Accra, Ghana, for environmental science and journalism from Columbia University, New York. the Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists, as a Knight International Journalism Fellow, helping Ghanaian journalists improve their reporting skills in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election.

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george Brock in political science from Georgetown University, Washington D.C. In the United professor and head of journalism, City University; States, she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Venezuelan news agency, former managing editor, The Times, UK Venpres, during the early 1980s. Casas has also held diplomatic positions, including press affairs counselor at the Venezuelan Mission to the Organization George Brock became professor and head of Journalism at of American States, and taught journalism and political communication at City University in September 2009. He began his reporting Monteávila University and Andrés Bello Catholic University, both in Caracas. career at the Yorkshire Evening Press and The Observer, joining The Times in 1981. He was foreign editor, Brussels bureau chief, European editor, managing editor, Saturday editor and most recently international editor in a 28-year career at the newspaper. Jacqueline Charles Caribbean correspondent, Miami Herald, USA

Born in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Jacqueline Charles Lovelette Brooks is an award-winning foreign correspondent for The Miami news editor, The Gleaner, Jamaica Herald with responsibility for Haiti and the English- speaking Caribbean. She began her journalism career Lovelette Brooks has been news editor at The Gleaner at the Herald as an intern and returned after graduating since 2005. She began her career in journalism in 1993 as from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The first to tell the world a reporter for the Gleaner Company Ltd and edited Flair, that Haitian President Rene Preval had survived the devastating Jan. 12, 2010 a weekly women’s magazine. After working as executive earthquake, she spent 15 months living in Haiti chronicling the country’s manager of the Association for Women’s Organizations struggle from earthquake devastation, cholera tragedy, electoral chaos and in Jamaica (1995-96) and as an environmental consultant for Environmental presidential rebuilding. Solutions Ltd (1997-2000), she returned to journalism as a lifestyle editor at the Jamaica Observer from 2000-05. Jim Clancy anchor and correspondent, CNN International, USA Byron Buckley associate editor, The Gleaner Company Ltd, Jamaica Jim Clancy brings the experience of more than 30 years covering the world to every newscast on CNN International. Byron Buckley is an associate editor at the Gleaner His career includes reporting on the events that have shaped Company Ltd, in Kingston, Jamaica. A former president history over the last quarter century, including the fall of the of the Press Association of Jamaica and press secretary to Berlin Wall, the siege of Beirut, the Rwanda Genocide, and the prime minister, he is a managing partner of Buckley the Iraq wars. From 1982-96, Clancy was a CNN international correspondent Communications, and has held several positions in media in the Beirut, Frankfurt, Rome and London bureaus. During this time, he won and communications during the past two decades, including associate editor, the with the George Polk Award for his reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, the Sunday Gleaner, public relations and marketing director, Northern Caribbean Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the war in Bosnia, and an Emmy Award University, and communications consultant, Inter-American Development Bank. for reporting on the famine and international intervention in Somalia. Based at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, he currently anchors “The Brief,” an executive summary of the most important international stories of the day. Odette Campbell head of news, Grenada Broadcasting Network, Grenada sheila Coronel founding director, Philippine Center for Investigative Odette Campbell began her career in journalism in 1987 Journalism; Toni Stabile Professor of Professional as a reporter with the Grenada Informer. One year later, Practice in Investigative Journalism, Columbia Uni- she joined the broadcast media as a reporter with the versity Graduate School of Journalism, USA government owned Radio Grenada, moving up through the ranks to become director of news and current affairs at the Grenada Sheila Coronel began her journalism career in 1982, when Broadcasting Network in 2000. Currently news and current affairs manager she joined the staff of the weekly magazine, Philippine at the Grenada Broadcasting Network, Campbell has played a pivotal role in Panorama. She later joined The Manila Times as a political reporter, and also the development and execution of a public education strategy for the National wrote special reports for The Manila Chronicle. As a stringer for The New York Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) in the post-Hurricane Ivan period. Times and The Guardian (UK), she covered seven attempted coups d’etat against the Aquino government. In 1989, Coronel co-founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to promote investigative reporting. The PCIJ trains journalists in investigative skills, and has provided an environment for Cenovia Casas in-depth, groundbreaking reporting. Under Coronel’s leadership, the Center editor-in-chief, El Nacional, Venezuela became the premier investigative reporting institution in the Philippines and Asia. Cenovia Casas is editor-in-chief of the Caracas-based publishing company, El Nacional. She is responsible for its daily national newspaper, El Nacional, the newspaper’s website, and two magazines. Casas has a degree in journalism from Andrés Bello Catholic University and an MA

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Poonam Dabas gustavo Faleiros principal correspondent, Doordarshan News, India Knight International Journalism Fellow; journalist, O Eco, Brazil Poonam Dabas is a veteran journalist with over 30 years of experience in both the print and the broadcast media. Gustavo Faleiros is a former editor of O Eco online (www. She is the senior correspondent for the state-owned TV oeco.com.br), a Brazilian environmental news agency. news channel, Doordarshan News, serving the national Previously, he worked as environment correspondent for broadcaster for the past 23 years. She also freelances for Valor Econômico, the largest financial newspaper in Brazil. the Hindustan Times, among other publications. Dabas began her journalism Born in São Paulo, Faleiros graduated in journalism studies at the Catholic career with the English-language daily, The Statesman, and worked for India’s University of São Paulo and has a master’s degree in environment, politics and largest news agency, the Press Trust of India, before joining “DD News.” She globalization from King’s College London. He is currently a Knight International also has extensive teaching and training experience, including work with the Journalism Fellow. Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

eynulla Fatullayev anthony Dara head, haqqin.az; chairman, Public Union for Human founder and chief executive, NN24, Nigeria Rights, Azerbaijan

Born in Bwari, Nigeria, Anthony Dara is a TV broadcast The former editor-in-chief and founder of the Russian- engineer by training. He studied at Kaduna Polytechnic language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri- and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (B.Sc. in broad- language daily Gundalik Azarbaycan, Eynulla Fatullayev cast technology), and has worked with the Nigerian is currently chairman of the NGO, Public Union for Human Television Authority (NTA), ITV Central and Bloomberg TV Rights, and head of the internet portal, haqqin.az. In 2007, he was imprisoned in the UK, and Snell and Wilcox Ltd, a leading global TV broadcast equipment for convictions based on alleged violations of the anti-terrorism law after he manufacturer. He founded NN24 (Network News 24), Nigeria’s first 24-hour reported on the potential ramifications of Azerbaijan’s support for the United news channel, in 2008. States. Following his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, he was sentenced to additional prison time after authorities claimed they found heroin in his prison cell. He was released under a presidential pardon on 26 May 2011 following advocacy on his behalf by IPI and others. Carl-eugen eberle chairman of IPI; former director of legal affairs, ZDF - German Television, Germany Wesley gibbings Carl-Eugen Eberle was director of legal affairs at the German president, Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers public service television broadcaster, ZDF, from 1990-2011. (ACM), Trinidad and Tobago He studied law at Freiburg and Munich universities, and earned his doctorate at the University of Regensburg in Wesley Gibbings is the president of the Association of 1976. In 1974, he joined the University of Konstanz, where he completed his Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) a network of journalists, postdoctoral lecture qualification in public law and administrative sciences in media workers and media associations spanning the 1982. From 1984-90, he was professor of public law and administrative sciences Caribbean Basin. A Trinidadian journalist with over 20 years at the University of Hamburg. From 1988-90, he was also the managing director of experience, Gibbings’ journalistic activities range from covering Caribbean of the Institute for Administrative Sciences at the University of Hamburg. public affairs to activism in the area of press freedom. His publications include four collections of poems, numerous papers on Caribbean media, contributions to a number of books, as well as editorial management of several technical books and journals, including the “Elections Handbook for Caribbean James Fahn Journalists” (2009). executive director, Earth Journalism Network, Internews, USA

A journalist who has primarily focused on environmental Hajime Hikino issues in developing countries, James Fahn is executive senior writer/science news, Chunichi Shimbun, director of Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and Japan global director of environmental programs. He writes a monthly “Earth Journalism” column for the Columbia Journalism Review, and Formerly a research and development engineer of heavy has also written for Newsweek, The New York Times and The Economist. He duty diesel engines, Hajime Hikino currently works as previously worked for the Ford Foundation as a program associate in the field of senior writer (science news) for the Chunichi Shimbun. environment and development. During the 1990s, Fahn was based in Bangkok, He has worked as a reporter for the Tokyo Shimbun and Thailand, where he was a reporter and editor for The Nation, an English- Chunichi Shimbun newspapers since 1986, and was in charge of the coverage language daily. His book, “A Land on Fire” (2003), recounts the issues and of such incidents as the Great Hanshin Earthquake that killed 6,434 people in scandals he uncovered while working on the environmental beat in Southeast 1995, the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and events surrounding Asia. the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Since 2009, Hikino has served as the secretary general of the Japanese Association of Science & Technology Journalists.

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Canute James Larry Kilman director, Caribbean Institute of Media and deputy CEO and executive director of Communication (CARIMAC), University of West communications and public affairs, World Indies, Jamaica Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), France A former Caribbean correspondent for The Financial Times (UK), Canute. James was appointed director of the Larry Kilman is deputy CEO and executive director of University of the West Indies’ Caribbean Institute of Media communications and public affairs of WAN-IFRA, a global and Communication (CARIMAC) in 2009. He is a past president of the Press organisation representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and a former editor of the now defunct Jamaica Daily and 3,000 companies in over 120 countries. With WAN-IFRA and its precursor, News. He also worked with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a radio the World Association of Newspapers, since 1998, he has had a privileged reporter, presenter and producer. James is a recipient of the 1995 Maria Moors position from which to witness the evolving newspaper business. Before that, Cabot Prize for Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia he had a long career in the news business on three continents, notably with the University in New York. Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.

andy Johnson Frank La rue CEO, Government Information Services; former host, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and “Morning Edition,” TV6, Trinidad and Tobago Expression

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Andy Johnson attended York Frank La Rue currently serves as UN Special Rapporteur University in Toronto, Canada, studying Latin American on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of and Caribbean Studies. The founding president of the opinion and expression. The founder of the Center for Legal Media Association of Trinidad and Tobago (MATT), he has Action for Human Rights (CALDH), he has worked in the held various positions in the print and electronic media. In 2003, he became field of human rights for the past 25 years. CALDH was established to promote the regular host of the CCN TV6 programme, “Morning Edition.” Johnson was economic, social and cultural rights in Guatemala and was the first Guatemalan appointed CEO of the Government Information Services Limited (GIS) in 2010. NGO to bring cases of human rights violations to the Inter-American Human Rights System. La Rue was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. He has served as a presidential commissioner for human rights in Guatemala, a human rights adviser to the Guatemalan foreign minister, and a consultant to ahmad ibrahim the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He holds a BA in head of investigative unit, Al Jazeera, Qatar legal and social sciences from the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, and a postgraduate degree in U.S. foreign policy from Johns Hopkins University. Ahmad Ibrahim heads the investigative unit of the Doha, Qatar-based Al Jazeera network. Ibrahim also runs Al Jazeera Arabic’s Syria desk, and is responsible for the channel’s coverage of the Syrian revolution and its network Kwame Laurence of citizen journalists inside Syria. A British citizen of Syrian online editor, Trinidad Express, Trinidad and Tobago origin, he joined Al Jazeera in 2002. Prior to his current position, he worked as senior producer at Al Jazeera English, where he was responsible for producing Kwame Laurence is online editor at the Trinidad Express, numerous films and investigative documentaries, including the award-winning responsible for overseeing the newspaper’s online product. “Prisoner 345”. He took up the post in 2010, introducing new elements to the paper’s website in a successful bid to keep trinidadexpress. com ahead of the competition. Kwame began his career in journalism in 1991 with the Trinidad Broadcasting Company (TBC), working as David Kaplan a reporter and sportscaster. He moved to the Trinidad Guardian in 1995 and the investigative journalist, Global Center for Trinidad Express in January 1996. From 2005, he worked as a sports anchor/ Investigative Journalism, USA reporter for CCN TV6 while continuing to work fulltime as a writer/assistant sports editor. In December 2011, he was named SOSA (Spirit of Sport Awards) David Kaplan is an investigative journalist and media Journalist of the Year (print). consultant based in Washington, D.C. From 2008-11, he served as director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an award-winning network of 100 reporters in 50 countries. Until 2007, he worked as chief investigative adriana León correspondent for the Washington-based U.S. News & World Report, where he press freedom coordinator, Institute for Press and wrote the magazine’s popular Bad Guys blog. Kaplan has reported from two Society (IPYS), Peru dozen countries and his stories have won or shared more than 20 awards. A four-time winner of the coveted Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, he Adriana León Cantella is press freedom coordinator at the serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Organized Lima, Peru-based Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (Institute for Press Crime and is an editor at large for the Organized Crime and Corruption and Society). She is also head of press and communications at Reporting Project. IPYS, overseeing investigations for INFOS, IPYS’s investigative journalism website. An experienced journalist, she has covered politics for several newspapers in Peru, including Expreso and La República. Since 2005, she has also worked as a stringer for The Los Angeles Times.

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Juanita León sano Malifa founder and director, LaSillaVacia.com, Colombia founder and editor-in-chief, Samoa Observer, Samoa

Juanita León graduated from the University of the Andes Savea Sano Malifa is the editor and publisher of the Samoa school of law in Colombia before moving to New York Observer, Samoa’s only independent daily newspaper. to enter the M.S. program at the Columbia University Since its founding in 1978, the Observer has repeatedly Graduate School of Journalism. She has worked for the Wall fallen afoul of the government for its exposés of government Street Journal in New York, and the newspaper El Tiempo corruption. The paper has faced a number of lawsuits over and Semana magazine in Colombia. She was editor-in-chief of semana.com the years, and government advertising was withdrawn in an attempt to silence and collaborated on the TV programmes “Tiempos difíciles” and “Regreso the Observer’s critical reporting. Malifa, who is also a poet, playwright and a la Esperanza.” León was one of the first journalists to reveal links between novelist of renown, studied engineering in Wellington, New Zealand, but later Colombian politicians and paramilitary groups. In 2006 she was awarded the changed to a career in journalism. He founded the Observer as a weekly in Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and was named a Nieman Fellow 1978 and started a second publication, the Sunday Samoan in 1987. Malifa was by Harvard University. León taught at New York University’s Graduate School awarded the Pacific Islands News Association’s Freedom of Information Award of Journalism and worked as editor-in-chief of Flypmedia.com, an online news in 1994. In 2000, he was named one of IPI’s World Press Freedom Heroes. magazine based in New York. In 2009, she founded LaSillaVacía, a news website focused on Colombian politics. günther Mayr Davan Maharaj head, science news department, Austrian editor & executive vice president, The Los Angeles Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), Austria Times, USA Born in Bregenz, Austria, Günther Mayr studied mass media, As editor of the Los Angeles Times Media Group, Davan journalism and political science at the University of Vienna. Maharaj oversees a daily newsgathering organization that He has been chief editor for science news at the Austrian includes the flagship Los Angeles Times, latimes.com, LA Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) since April 2007. Prior to Times Magazine, Times Community News, and the Spanish- that, he was producer of the ORF science programme “Modern Times” (1996- language Hoy and Fin de Semana newspapers. A native of Trinidad, he holds 98), editor-in-chief of “Modern Times” (1998-2005) and editor-in-chief of the ORF a political science degree from the University of Tennessee and a Master’s science programme “Newton” (2006-07). Mayr began his journalism career in degree in law from Yale University. 1985 as a trainee with the Austrian newspaper, Kleine Zeitung, in Graz. He has also worked as a freelancer and editor for the Austrian news magazine profil. Kiran Maharaj president of the Trinidad & Tobago Publishers & Broadcasters Association (TTPBA), Trinidad and toby Mendel Tobago executive director, Centre for Law and Democracy, Canada Kiran Maharaj is currently president of the Trinidad & Tobago Publishers & Broadcasters Association. She is the Toby Mendel is the executive director of the Centre for general manager and shareholder/director of Caribbean Law and Democracy, a Halifax, Canada-based international Lifestyle Communications, which comprises Music Radio 97, Ebony 104, Radio human rights NGO that focuses on providing legal expertise 90.5, Heartbeat 103.5, I.E.TV Channel 1, and VA Films. She began her career regarding foundational rights for democracy, including in media as a freelance journalist with local newspapers and magazines, and the right to information and freedom of expression. Prior to that, he was for was a freelance correspondent for CNN World Report for two years. In addition, 12 years senior director for law at ARTICLE 19, an international NGO focusing she has done on-air work as a radio presenter and producer. She also has on freedom of expression and information. He has provided expertise on experience in film production and screenwriting, and has worked as a line these rights to a wide range of actors, including the World Bank, UN and other producer for feature films. intergovernmental bodies, and governments and NGOs around the world. Before joining ARTICLE 19, he worked as a senior human rights consultant with Oxfam Canada and a human rights policy analyst at the Canadian International Labaran Maku Development Agency (CIDA). minister of information and communication, Nigeria

Labaran Maku was appointed minister of state for information and communication in April 2010, and elevated to full minister of information and communication in December 2010. Prior to that, Maku served for four years as deputy governor of Nasarawa State (2003-07), commissioner of information, youth and sports (1999-2002), and commissioner of information and internal affairs (2002-03). Before joining the public service, Maku had been a senior manager with USAID-Nigeria’s democracy and governance program (1997-99). Previously, he had a successful career in journalism, working as a reporter for Standard Newspapers in Kano State, deputy editor-in-chief of Meridian Communications Ltd in Lagos, and political editor and member of the editorial board of Champion Newspapers Ltd, Lagos.

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Dunja Mijatovic simon Morrison OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media government relations and public affairs/Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Google, UK Dunja Mijatovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was appointed OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on 11 March Simon Morrison is responsible for Google's government 2010. Based in Vienna and supported by an international staff, relations and public affairs on issues related to copyright the OSCE Representative observes media developments in and IP in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also all 56 OSCE participating States, providing early warning on works with arts and journalism organisations in the region violations of freedom of expression and promoting full compliance with OSCE on projects aiming to increase online access to cultural works and business press freedom commitments. Mijatovic is an expert in media law and regulation. opportunities for copyright owners. He joined Google in 2007. As one of the founders of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she helped create a legal, regulatory and policy framework for the media. In 2007, she was elected chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies. Previously, she chaired the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists on Pavol Múdry freedom of expression and information in times of crisis. founder and former CEO, SITA-Slovak News Agency, Slovakia

Marjorie Miller Pavol Múdry studied English and sports at Commenius Latin American and Caribbean editor, Associated University from 1968-73 and received a PhD in 1986. From Press, Mexico 1975-91, he was a professor of economics at Bratislava University. In 1992, he worked as a correspondent for the As Latin America and Caribbean editor for the Associated Austrian Press Agency (APA) and Reuters in Bratislava. In 1997, under difficult Press in Mexico City, Marjorie Miller oversees about 100 political and economic conditions, he founded SITA-Slovak News Agency, the reporters and editors and is responsible for coverage only successful independent private news agency in the region, and was its first in a region stretching from the U.S. border in the north to CEO. He retired in September 2010 and is now a media consultant in Slovakia. Tierra del Fuego in South America, plus the Caribbean region from Trinidad to He has been a member of IPI since 1994, vice chairman of the IPI executive Bermuda. She also has oversight of AP’s global Spanish news service, including board for the past two years, a member of the board of the South East European reporters, editors and translators working in Spanish inside the United States Media Organisation (SEEMO) since 2007, and a member of the board of the and across Latin America. From 2002-08, she was the foreign editor of the Association of Private News Agencies (APNA) since 2005. Times. Prior to serving as foreign editor, Miller worked as a Los Angeles Times correspondent for 17 years in Latin America, the Mideast and Europe. Before joining the Times as a staff writer for the San Diego County edition in 1983, she was a staff writer for the San Diego Union. Julio e. Muñoz executive director, Inter American Press Association, USA anthony Mills deputy director, International Press Institute Julio Muñoz has been an employee of the Miami, Florida- based Inter American Press Association (IAPA) since 1982. Anthony Mills spent almost 10 years in Beirut, Lebanon, From 1969-82, he held a wide range of positions in the as a freelance correspondent for CNN, Deutsche Welle, field of journalism. He was also a professor of journalism and other news outlets before joining IPI in 2009. He is at the Catholic University of Chile in Concepción. Muñoz holds a PhD in mass currently IPI deputy director, a position he was appointed communications from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, to after overseeing IPI’s press freedom activities for almost University of Minnesota, and an MA in communications from the University of three years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Pacific in Stockton, California. Brown University in the United States, and a master’s degree in international journalism from City University London. verena nowotny attila Mong partner, Gaisberg Consulting; former spokesperson, journalism consultant, Mertek Media Monitor; editor, Austrian Mission to the United Nations; former atlatszo.hu, Hungary spokesperson of the federal chancellor, Austria

Attila Mong worked for Hungarian Public Radio as host of Verena Nowotny worked as a journalist for the Austrian the daily morning programme, “180 Minutes,” until May magazines profil, Cash Flow and News from 1988-96 2011. On 21 December 2010, he protested against Hungary’s before becoming the spokesperson for the Austrian controversial new media law by holding a minute of silence federal minister for economic affairs (1996-98). She was a crisis management during his live programme. Subsequently, he was suspended from his post for consultant at Control Risks, in Berlin, from 2000-01, then spokesperson for four months before leaving the station for good. From 2000-10, Mong hosted a European and foreign affairs for the Austrian federal chancellor (2001-06). From daily political talk show at Inforadio, Hungary’s only 24-hour private news radio 2007 -08, she was head of the China office of the Austria Wirtschaftsservice, station. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the Hungarian business monthly an federal development and financing bank, in Shanghai. From 2009-10, Manager Magazin. The holder of numerous investigative journalism prizes, he she was spokesperson for Austria’s non-permanent membership in the UN was a visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2011. Security Council. Since 2010, she has been a partner at Gaisberg Consulting, offering expertise in crisis communications, public affairs and inter-cultural communications.

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Kamla Persad-Bissessar eleanora rabinovich prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago director, freedom of expression program, Association for Civil Rights (ADC), Argentina In May 2010, Kamla Persad-Bissessar became the first woman to hold the office of prime minister of the Republic Eleonora Rabinovich is a lawyer and a journalist. With a of Trinidad and Tobago. An attorney-at-law by profession, Fulbright/Antorchas scholarship, she pursued an MA in she entered the political arena in 1987. Since 1995 she has Latin American studies at New York University with a focus been the Member of Parliament for Siparia, serving as on politics and media. After graduation, she returned to attorney general, minister of legal affairs and minister of education between Argentina and soon joined the Argentinean NGO, Asociación por los Derechos 1995 and 2001. On April 26, 2006, Persad-Bissessar was appointed leader of the Civiles (ADC), where she is currently director of the freedom of expression opposition, the first woman to ever hold that position in Trinidad and Tobago. program. Rabinovich is a member of the International Media Lawyers She was appointed leader of the opposition a second time on February 25, 2010. Association (IMLA) and teaches media law at the university level. On May 26, 2010, two days after a victory at the polls, Persad-Bissessar created history yet again, becoming the first woman to hold the office of prime minister. narasimhan ravi director, The Hindu, India anand Persaud editor-in-chief, Stabroek News, Guyana Narasimhan Ravi is the director of The Hindu, India’s second- largest English-language daily newspaper. Headquartered Anand Persaud began his career in journalism in 1989 as a at Chennai, The Hindu has a circulation of 1.4 million and trainee reporter with the Stabroek News, a privately owned became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an newspaper founded in Guyana in 1986. He became assistant online edition. Ravi was the newspaper’s editor from 1991- editor of the newspaper in 1992 and editor in 1993. He has 2003. Prior to that, he was an editorial writer, Washington correspondent and been editor-in-chief since 2008. Persaud holds a BSc in deputy editor. He is currently chairman of the India Chapter of IPI, and was cellular biology from the University of Kansas. chairman of the Press Trust of India, India’s largest news agency, until 2008. He has also served as a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India. Ravi was a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School in 2000 and a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Peter Preston University, in 2004. columnist, The Guardian and The Observer; former editor, The Guardian, UK

Peter Preston is a columnist for The Guardian and The Javier Darío restrepo Observer, addressing a wide range of political, social and head, Fundacíon Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano media-related issues. He was educated at Loughborough (FNPI), Colombia Grammar School and St John’s College, Oxford, where he edited the student paper, Cherwell. He joined The Guardian in 1963, and was Javier Darío Restrepo is the head of the Fundacíon Nuevo its editor for 20 years, from 1975-95. He was a member of the Scott Trust, the Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), a training centre for company which owns Guardian Media Group, from 1979 to 2003, chairman of journalists created in 1994 by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel the Association of British Press Editors, and chairman of IPI from 1995-97. García Márquez. A veteran journalist with more than 50 years of experience, Restrepo has covered wars, chronicled major events and presented the daily news for Colombian TV. He continues to write columns Lance Price for El Tiempo and El Colombiano. Renowned throughout Latin America as a writer and political commentator; former director of teacher of journalism ethics, he has won numerous journalism awards. communications, Labour Party, UK

Lance Price studied philosophy, politics and economics at Hertford College, Oxford University. After university, he george Maxwell richards joined the BBC as a news trainee and worked there from president of Trinidad and Tobago 1980-98 as a news reporter and correspondent. In 1998, he left journalism to become special adviser to British prime minister Tony Blair. George Maxwell Richards took the oath of office as president In 2000, he became the Labour Party’s director of communications and helped on 17 March 2003 and was inaugurated for a second term plan and then run the 2001 general election campaign. Since 2001, he has been in 2008. Born in San Fernando, Trinidad, he obtained a BSc a freelance writer, broadcaster and commentator. He is the author of “The Spin and an MSc in chemical engineering from the University Doctor’s Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour” (2005) and “Where Power of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1955 Lies: Prime Ministers v The Media” (2010). and 1957, respectively, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1963. From 1957-65, he held a number of managerial posts at Shell Trinidad Ltd. and then joined the University of the West Indies as a senior lecturer in chemical engineering. In 1970, he was appointed professor of chemical engineering and lectured until 1985. He was appointed principal and pro vice-chancellor in 1985, and held this position until 1996.

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David s. rohde galina sidorova investigative journalist and foreign affairs columnist, chairperson, Foundation for Investigative Journalism Thomson Reuters, USA – Foundation 19/29; former editor-in-chief, Sovershenno Secretno, Russia David Rohde is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning U.S. author and foreign affairs columnist for Thomson Reuters. Galina Sidorova is chair and co-founder of the Foundation He received his first Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for reports in for Investigative Journalism – Foundation 19/29 and vice the Christian Science Monitor exposing the massacre of chair of IPI’s executive board. She was the editor-in-chief thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. Bosnian Serb police arrested of the independent investigative monthly, Sovershenno Secretno (Top Secret), Rohde in 1995 at the site of a mass grave he had discovered and detained him from 2001-10. Sidorova graduated from the journalism faculty of the Moscow for 10 days. He was also part of a New York Times team that was awarded a Institute for International Relations in 1978. She worked as a staff writer, Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for its coverage of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and correspondent and member of the editorial board of the news weekly Novoje Pakistan. In 2008, members of the Taliban kidnapped Rohde and two Afghan Vremia (New Times) from 1978-91. From 1991-95, she served as political colleagues who were conducting research in Afghanistan. Rohde and his adviser to the foreign minister of Russia. From 1995-2000, she was an adviser colleagues managed to escape after more than seven months in captivity. with the general secretariat of the foreign ministry.

Fernando samaniego shena stubbs chief digital officer and advisor to the board, Grupo senior legal advisor/company secretary, The Ferré Rangel, USA Gleaner Group of Companies, Jamaica

Fernando Samaniego is the chief digital officer of Grupo Sheena P. Stubbs has been senior legal advisor of the Gleaner Ferré Rangel, the largest communications and media Group of Companies since 2008 and senior legal advisor and group in Puerto Rico. A former COO of publications, online company secretary since October 2011. She holds a bachelor & IT of the Arab Media Group (AMG), Dubai, UAE, he has of laws degree from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, over 15 years of experience on four continents transforming traditional media Barbados, and a legal education certificate from the Norman Manley Law School, companies into new media market leaders and managing complex digital Mona, Jamaica. operations with massive traffic. Dawn thomas group chief executive officer, One Caribbean Media nedim s¸ener Limited (OCM), Trinidad and Tobago investigative reporter and columnist, Posta, Turkey Dawn Thomas is currently the group CEO of One Caribbean Nedim Sener, a reporter and columnist for the daily Media Limited (OCM). Prior to her present appointment, newspaper Posta, was detained on 3 March 2011 following she served for four years as the group CEO of Caribbean a raid by security services targeting journalists and others Communications Network Limited (CCN), a subsidiary of connected with Oda TV. Authorities said the news website the OCM Group. Prior to her tenure with the OCM Group, she spent 15 years acted as the media wing for the so-called “Ergenekon plot,” with the Neal and Massy Group and held the position of CEO of Tracmac in which secularists and ultra-nationalists allegedly planned to use terrorism to Engineering Ltd. She currently serves on the board of directors of the OCM overthrow the government of Turkey’s ruling AK party. A court ordered Sener’s Group and IPI. She is also the chairman of the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) release in March 2012 following advocacy on his behalf by IPI and others, but and the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), Barbados. the Oda TV trial continues. If convicted, Sener faces a possible sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Prior to his detention, Sener was an investigative reporter for the daily Milliyet. In 2010, IPI named Sener its 56th World Press Freedom Hero. Pansy tlakula Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, African Commission on Charles M. sennott Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) executive editor and vice president, GlobalPost, Boston, USA Pansy Tlakula was appointed a member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in July 2005, A longtime foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe, and currently holds the portfolio of Special Rapporteur on Charles Sennott served as its Middle East bureau chief from Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa. She is also the chief 1997-2001 and Europe bureau chief from 2001-05. He began electoral officer of the Electoral Commission of South Africa, a position she his career in journalism as a contributor to National Public has held since February 2002. She was member of the South African Human Radio and moved into print journalism, becoming a regional reporter for the Rights Commission for six years, prior to joining the Electoral Commission. She Bergen Record in New Jersey, and later a special assignment reporter and a city holds a B. Proc degree from the University of the North, an LLB degree from the editor for the New York Daily News before joining the Globe in 1994. Together University of the Witwatersrand and an LLM degree from Harvard University. with Philip S. Balboni, he founded GlobalPost, an online international news She is an admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa. agency, in January 2009. With correspondents in some 50 countries, GlobalPost offers original daily reporting from every region of the world.

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Marcela turati Yvette Walker journalist, Proceso, Mexico Edith Kinney Gaylord Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics, University of Central Oklahoma; night news Marcela Turati is an award-winning journalist for the director, The Oklahoman, USA Mexico City-based magazine Proceso, where she has been covering the social effects of violence related to drug- Yvette Walker is night news director at The Oklahoman, the dealing. She is a co-founder of the Mexican journalists daily newspaper for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. network “Red de periodistas sociales, Periodistas de a Pie”, She supervises the news operation at night, overseeing late- which promotes human rights in journalism, and author of “Fuego Cruzado: Las breaking news decisions and design for the news sections. In addition, she víctimas atrapadas en la guerra del narco,” about the impact of drug violence also is responsible for the overall look and feel of the paper and supervises on Mexican society. the editors of several special sections and niche publications. She joined The Oklahoman in 2006, and managed online content and presentation for NewsOK.com, the paper’s Web site. Before joining The Oklahoman, Walker was news editor at The Kansas City Star and helped launch newsroom content on iryna vidanava kansascity.com. founder and editor-in-chief, 34 Multimedia Magazine, Belarus

Iryna Vidanava is the founder and editor of the independent John Yearwood Belarusian youth publication, 34 Multimedia Magazine world editor, The Miami Herald, USA (www.34mag.net), the winner of IPI’s 2012 Free Media Pioneer Award. A recipient of a Muskie Fellowship, she John Yearwood, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, is received an MA in public policy in 2006 from the Institute of Policy Studies at world editor of The Miami Herald. Previously, he served as Johns Hopkins University in the United States. She is an author of numerous national/international editor and assistant city editor for publications on new media, youth, civil society and public policy in Belarus, government and politics with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. and was named one of the “World’s Top Dissidents” by Foreign Policy magazine Yearwood spent two years in the Caribbean as founding in 2010. publisher/editor of IBIS, a general lifestyle magazine, and he spent ten years at the Dallas Morning News, where he reported from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Yearwood was also a newsman for the Associated Press, a national correspondent for Focus magazine and the news/public affairs director for WHUS Radio in Connecticut.