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CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTORS CHINA KEYNOTE ADDRESS Duan Congcong Veronica Pedrosa Senior Editor, Global Times Correspondent, Contributor English “The role of social media Duan Congcong reports on in contemporary conflicts” international issues and foreign affairs for Global Times, a Chinese Named “Best News Anchor” daily newspaper focusing on at the ninth Asian Television international news with a daily Awards, Veronica Pedrosa is a circulation of 1.5 million. An veteran of more than 20 years’ experienced journalist, she has international news experience. reported from , South Korea, and She has lived and worked on three continents, and and also covers the annual China People’s Congress has made significant contributions to the world’s meeting. Ms. Congcong has travelled to Tibet and best-known news broadcasters. Veronica has built up Xinjiang province to write features about these two a reputation as one of the world’s most recognizable areas of China. Asian journalists and is currently based in as a correspondent for Al Jazeera English. She is part of the team that launched Al Jazeera in 2006, which Yu Zheng has since won international praise for its distinctive Senior Editor, high-quality journalism from a developing world Xinhua perspective. “The challenges of war reporting in North Korea and the Middle East” AUSTRALIA Yu Zheng is a producer, editor and columnist for Xinhua News Peter Cave Agency, covering news and Foreign Affairs Editor, Australian analysis, investigative stories, Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and commentaries for its global wire service. “The Australian Safety Code A leading Chinese science and environment for Journalists” journalist, he contributes to the Washington- based Discovery Channel News and -based A five-time winner of Australian Economic Observer. A recipient of several journalism journalism’s most prestigious fellowships and awards, Yu Zheng received a accolade, the Walkley Award, Bachelor of Arts in journalism and international Peter Cave has reported relations from the China School of Journalism and a from more than 60 countries Master of Arts in international law and international during a 40-year career with the ABC. In his current relations from the Fletcher School of Law and roving role, he provides reporting and analysis of Diplomacy, Tufts University. stories across the globe. Since his first posting to Japan in the early 1980s, Mr. Cave has been chief correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, JAPAN bureau chief in Washington, and the presenter of AM, ABC Radio’s flagship morning current affairs program. His extensive experience includes covering Hidetoshi Fujisawa conflict-related issues in Libya, South Africa, Vanuatu, Senior Chief Correspondent, NHK Japan Palestine and the former Soviet Union, and award- Broadcasting Corporation winning coverage of Tiananmen Square in 1989 and “Reporting in hostile environments: dealing with the fall of the Berlin Wall. biohazards and the nuclear threat”

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Hidetoshi Fujisawa is Executive of Independent Journalists, the Editors Editor, Chief Commentator Club, the Foreign Correspondents Club of and Program Host for NHK, the and the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club. An public broadcaster of Japan. Eisenhower fellow, she completed undergraduate He joined NHK as a news studies in political science in New , India, and reporter after college and has graduate studies in journalism in Syracuse, New since served as bureau chief York, USA. in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Washington, covering major news events including Zulfiani “Uni” Lubis the reversion of Hong Kong to Chief Editor, ANTV China and US Presidential elections. Previously the “Covering children, from privacy anchor of the NHK Evening News and its satellite to violence issues” channel’s world news programs, he later served in New York as the Director General of NHK’s operations In addition to being Chief in the America region and returned to Japan as the Editor of private broadcaster Executive Controller General from 2007 to 2008. ANTV, Zulfiani Lubis is a member of the Indonesian Yoshinori Fukushima Press Council representing the Deputy Foreign News Editor, media industry, and Executive Mainichi Shimbun Chairwoman of the Association of Indonesian Contributor Private Television Stations. She started her career as a reporter, then editor, at Warta Ekonomi. At age Yoshinori Fukushima began 32, Uni became the Chief Editor of Panji Masyarakat his career at Mainichi Shimbun magazine and later Deputy Chief Editor at TV7 newspaper in 1986 as a staff before joining ANTV. Uni is also Coordinator of the writer. He moved to Mainichi’s Editors Club, an informal club of executives and foreign news department in senior journalists of 50 media agencies in . 1990, covering the Gulf War and She has participated in the US-based Jefferson eventually both political and foreign news. He has Fellowship Program of the East-West Center and the previously served as bureau chief in Jerusalem, Eisenhower Fellow Multi National Program. and , covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and issues related to Afghanistan and Iraq during his postings. Eddy Suprapto Channel Production News INDONESIA Head, MNC Business “Protection and safety Yuli Ismartono of journalists” Deputy Chief Editor, Tempo Eddy Suprapto is the Channel (English edition) Production News Head of MNC “Independence in reporting Business and concurrently the violence and disaster” Vice President of the Asian Journalist Association in . Along with her role at Tempo, He was formerly a News Executive Producer of TPI Yuli Ismartono is the Managing Channel and editor of KONTAN business bulletin. Mr. Editor of AsiaViews, a monthly Suprapto has conducted research for Secretariat For regional magazine. In her Preservation of Indonesian Rainforest and ELSAM three decades in journalism Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy. He and media relations, she has covered the First Gulf received his education from James Cook University War and the conflicts in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka in North Queensland, Australia, and Surabaya and Cambodia, and interviewed several Asian University of Pharmacy. leaders. Ms. Ismartono is a member of the Alliance

14 October 2011 , | 7 anchor at RBS, and a journalist. He has interviewed more than a dozen Nobel laureates, heads of states, and other global newsmakers. Zainon Ahmad Kamarul is also known for his unique editorial Consultant Editor, Daily approach presenting the 12th Malaysian general “The role of media in protecting elections in 2008. migrants” NEW ZEALAND Zainon Ahmad is Consultant Editor as well as Political Editor of The Sun newspaper. He Mike McRoberts was assistant group editor of Anchor, 3News New Straits Times before he and 60 Minutes, TV3 joined the Sun as its Editor-in- “Experiences from the field: Chief in 2002. He studied history and international a foreign correspondent relations at the University of and was a in Thailand” teacher before starting a journalism career 35 years ago. He studied newspaper management at the In a career spanning more than Thomson Foundation, , and was a fellow 25 years, Mike McRoberts is at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts best known for his reporting University, Boston, USA. Besides editing and writing, from some of the world’s most he also conducts training for young journalists in dangerous places, from the conflicts in Afghanistan Malaysia and abroad. and Iraq to Lebanon, Gaza, the Solomon Islands and East Timor. Mike has also covered some of the world’s Mokhtar Hussain worst disasters such as the earthquakes in Pakistan, Chief Editor, National News China and Haiti, and this year in his hometown of Agency () Christchurch. After 10 years as a Radio New Zealand Contributor reporter, Mike moved to Auckland to work with Television New Zealand, reporting for One News Mokhtar Hussain joined and the daily current affairs Holmes programme. Bernama, the Malaysian In 2001, Mike moved to TV3 where he now anchors National News Agency in its flagship news and current affairs shows. He is a 1984 after graduating with multiple award winner, including 2006 New Zealand a bachelor’s degree in Mass journalist of the year. In recent years, he has served Communications from the as a judge for the News and Current Affairs category National University of Malaysia. He also holds a of the Emmy Awards. degree in Jurisprudence from University of Malaya. Prior to his appointment as an Editor, he had served PHILIPPINES as bureau chief in and Head of Audio Visual Unit (now Bernama TV). He is the president of the Carolyn Arguillas National Press Club, Malaysia. News Editor, MindaNews and Editor in Chief, OUR Mindanao Kamarul Bahrin “Role of media in covering Bin Haron victims of armed conflict: Executive Editor, Awani the Mindanao experience” Contributor A multiple journalism award Kamarul rose the ranks at Astro winner, Carolyn Arguillas is a Awani, Malaysia’s first 24 hour- founder of the Mindanao News news channel, from producer and Information Cooperative in 2008 to its current Executive Center (MNICC), established in 2001 by Mindanao- Editor and anchor of Sudut based journalists previously working for national Pandang, Vantage Point and news outlets. She is a graduate of AB Journalism Analisis Awani. He was previously a TV3 producer, from the University of the Philippines and has

8 | REPORTING ON VIOLENCE AND EMERGENCIES: Regional Media Conference for Southeast and East Asia Follow the conference live on Twitter: #mediamanila2011 an MA in Journalism from the Asian Center for V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Journalism of the Ateneo de Manila University. This Philippine Press Institute, Council for the Welfare year, Ms. Arguillas received the Hildegarde Award of Children, Philippine Legislators’ Committee on for Journalism (St. Scholastica’s College in Manila); Population and Development Foundation Inc., and the Investigative Reporter of the Year (Rotary Club the Catholic Mass Media Awards. A novelist, Lim also of Manila); and was named the McLuhan Fellow edits The Cebu Yearbook and Cebu Journalism and (Canadian Embassy and Center for Media Freedom Journalists magazine. and Responsibility). She is presently completing her thesis for an MA in Peace and Development at the Ledrolen Manriquez Notre Dame University in Cotabato City. Chief of Operations, The Peace and Conflict Journalism Red Batario Network- PECOJON Philippines Regional Coordinator for Contributor Asia-Pacific, International News Safety Institute (INSI) Ledrolen “Len” Manriquez is a Moderator founding member of PECOJON (established in 2004) and is in Red Batario is a Regional charge of managing the network. Coordinator for INSI, a global Her expertise also extends media network dedicated to the to co-facilitating trainings on conflict-sensitive- safety of journalists and media journalism as well facilitating trainings on creative staff. He is also the President conflict transformation and crisis management. and Executive Director of the non-profit Center for With a degree in Mathematics, she took a study Community Journalism and Development, which program on Conflict and Reconciliation in 2006 and provides a platform for dialogue between local later an IIJ summer course on Media Freedom and news media and citizens on issues affecting their Responsibility in , Germany. She is currently communities. He has spent most of his career as enrolled in a post-graduate course on International a newspaper or TV journalist, with some of his Humanitarian Law (University of Hyderabad in works cited for excellence by the JVO Awards for India). She continues to coordinate the Philippine Investigative Journalism. He regularly conducts network, designs its programs and administers its public journalism seminars as well as hostile projects while managing the operations of PECOJON environment and first-aid training in the Philippines International, which has a presence in Timor Leste, and other Asian countries. Cambodia, Indonesia and Germany.

Cherry Ann Lim Isagani Yambot Managing Editor (Special Pages Publisher, and Features), Sun.Star Cebu Philippine Daily Inquirer “Cebu Declaration and other “Media responsibilities in initiatives to improve media reporting on emergencies: safety” Is self-regulation enough?”

Cherry Ann Lim is managing Isagani Yambot began his career editor and former business in journalism as a deskperson editor of Sun.Star Cebu, a at the pre-martial law Manila member of Sun.Star Publications Times in 1953. Except for brief Network, the largest network of community stints as a foreign service press attaché, he has been newspapers in the Philippines. Ms. Lim also serves in journalism all his life. Before joining the Inquirer as Assistant Executive Director of the Cebu Citizens- in 1989 as Executive Editor, Mr. Yambot worked as Press Council, an organization working on media Night Editor of United Press International, managing issues and promoting professional journalism. She editor of the Times Journal, and later, of Malaya. He has co-produced short films on issues affecting was designated Associate Publisher of the Inquirer the press, and worked with the Cebu Media Legal in 1991 and has been its Publisher since 1993. Aid to defend the rights of journalists. Her work He is currently treasurer of the Philippine Press in journalism has been recognized by the Jaime Institute, the national association of newspapers,

14 October 2011 Manila, Philippines | 9 and represents Inquirer in the International Press Don Pathan Institute. Mr. Yambot has received recognition from Foreign News Desk Editor, the College Editors Guild Alumni Association; Alpha The Nation Beta Fraternity of the University of the Philippines; “Covering yourself when Catholic Mass Media Awards; Tondo Rotary Club; covering dangerous and the City of Manila. He studied liberal arts at the assignments: a case of reporting University of the Philippines, and was a Fall Fellow of conflicts in Myanmar and the Washington Journalism Center in 1971. Thailand’s Deep South”

SOUTH KOREA Don Pathan is an American journalist and consultant on the conflict in Southern Thailand for international Cho Il Joon organizations. He is based in Bangkok and Yala, one Head of International News of Thailand’s three southernmost provinces affected team and staff writer, by ongoing violence since 2004. Beside Thailand’s The Hankyoreh Malay-speaking South, Pathan also writes on Contributor Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle. Pathan graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993 with a A journalist for 16 years in BA in History and minored in Middle East Studies. Korea, Mr. Cho Il Joon has worked at The Hankyoreh since 2002. At this independent and Thin Lei Win progressive daily newspaper, South East and East Asia he has previously worked as a writer on the culture Correspondent, team and economy team as well as manager of the AlertNet opinion. Currently a staff writer on the international “Social Media, Beneficiary news team, he recently reported on the Egyptian Communications Revolution from and has previously covered and Humanitarian Reporting” the situation in Israel, Palestine and Iran. In 2009, he covered the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Thin Lei Win joined AlertNet in Wall from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. June 2008, becoming the first AlertNet journalist to be based in Asia. Prior to joining AlertNet, Thin worked at THAILAND trade publications in Singapore and as a freelance writer in Vietnam. She has a Masters in Multi-Media Pinpaka Ngamsom Journalism from Bournemouth University. News Editor, Prachatai.com “ The Roles of Online Media in Thailand’s May 2011 Crackdown: INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Advantages and Obstacles” OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) Pinpaka Ngamsom is the News Editor of Prachatai.com, an online news website founded Reynaldo Guioguio in 2004. She was co-author of Political and Communication the book “Online Media: Born Adviser, ICRC Delegation to be Democracy”, which compiled interviews and in the Philippines discussion on the role of new media in politics. Moderator Pinpaka has a law degree from Thammasat University, Thailand and a Masters in Inter-Asia Dr. Reynaldo Guioguio NGOs Studies from Sungkonghoe University, South completed his Ph.D in Korea. Ms. Ngamsom’s interests are in freedom of International Communication expression and minority-rights issues. at the University of Washington, Seattle and a post-graduate

10 | REPORTING ON VIOLENCE AND EMERGENCIES: Regional Media Conference for Southeast and East Asia Follow the conference live on Twitter: #mediamanila2011 diploma in Communication Policy and Planning at the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION Netherlands. His research and articles have been OF RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT published in Media Asia, the quarterly of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, SOCIETIES (IFRC) Singapore and the Philippines Communication Journal of the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He was a Past President of the Philippines Patrick Fuller Communication Society and in 1991 was elected Asia Pacific Communications Regular Member of the National Research Council of Manager, IFRC the Philippines, Division of Social Sciences. “Behind the headlines: Are the human costs of natural David-Pierre Marquet disasters under-reported?” Communication Coordinator, ICRC Regional Delegation Patrick Fuller is the for East Asia (Beijing) communications manager for Moderator the Asia Pacific region with the IFRC based in . Based in Beijing since November He has worked with the Red Cross Movement since 2010, David-Pierre Marquet’s 1993 and has managed communications programs 13-year ICRC career includes in response to a number of significant natural serving as Communication disasters including the Gujarat earthquake in India Advisor in and Cairo, (2001), the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) and the Communication Delegate in Myanmar, Iraq and Japan tsunami (2011). Uzbekistan and Delegate in Russia, Armenia and Georgia. He hails from France, where he previously worked for Bouygues Group, as an editor in a ASSISTANCE FOR JOURNALISTS publishing house, as a cultural news reader for ON DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENTS Radio France, and in theatre. He has a Diploma of International Studies from National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.

Philippe Stoll Public Relations Officer for East Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific, ICRC (Geneva) “Challenges for humanitarian organizations in a global environment: “ethical reporting”, citizen journalists, cyber propaganda” P. Hackett/Reuters P. Born in Hong Kong, Philippe Stoll has managed public and media relations for Please get in touch with your nearest East and South East Asia and the Pacific at ICRC ICRC delegation/office or call: Headquarters since 2008. He has worked for the ICRC in India, in Sierra Leone and in Israel and the Occupied +41 79 217 32 85 Territories. He holds a masters in Economic Sciences from the University of Geneva and in Journalism from 24 hours/day--HOTLINE the University of Lausanne. Before joining the ICRC, [email protected] he worked as journalist for six years in Switzerland at www.icrc.org/eng/addresses Journal La Côte and Swiss Television - TSR.

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