SALZBURG IPI CONGRESS REPORT 2www.freemedia.at003 IPI WORLD CONGRESS & 52nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY IPI Congress Report CONTENTS Programme ................................................ 1 Editorial........................................................ 4 Opening Ceremony .............................. 6 Pluralism, Democracy and the Clash of Civilisations ................14 INTERNATIONAL Analysing the World Summit PRESS INSTITUTE on the Information Society............ 24 Chairman SARS and the Media ........................ 30 Jorge E. Fascetto Chairman of the Board, Diario el Día La Plata, Argentina IPI Free Media Pioneer 2003 ...... 38 Director Congress Snapshots ........................ 40 Johann P. Fritz Media in War Zones Congress Coordinator and and Regions of Conflict .................. 42 Editor, IPI Congress Report Michael Kudlak The International News Safety Institute........................ 52 Assistant Congress Coordinator Christiane Klint Media Self-Regulation: A Press Freedom Issue .................. 56 Congress Transcripts Rita Klint The Transatlantic Rift ........................ 64 International Press Institute (IPI) The Oslo Accords Spiegelgasse 2/29, A-1010 Vienna, Austria – 10 Years On........................................ 74 Tel: +43-1-512 90 11, Fax: +43-1-512 90 14 E-mail: [email protected], http://www.freemedia.at Farewell Remarks................................ 77 Cover Photograph: Tourismus Salzburg GmbH • Layout: Nik Bauer Printing kindly sponsored by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Osteuropa Vertriebs-GmbH Paper kindly provided by UPM-Kymmene (Contents printed on Toccata Matt 135g/m2; cover printed on Toccata Matt 200g/m2) Resolutions ............................................ 78 1 PROGRAMME SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER Residenz Palace Salzburg Congress Centre OPENING CEREMONY SESSION I SESSION III Residenz Palace “Pluralism, Democracy and the “SARS and the Media” Chairperson Clash of Civilisations” Chairperson Wolfgang Vyslozil Alfred Payrleitner Managing Director, Austria Press Agency (APA) Chairperson Columnist, Kurier, Vienna Vienna Gudrun Harrer Foreign Editor, Der Standard, Vienna Keynote Speaker Maria Cheng WELCOME STATEMENTS Keynote Speaker Benita Ferrero-Waldner Spokesperson, Communicable Diseases Section, World Health Organisation (WHO), Geneva Jorge E. Fascetto Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna Chairman of IPI; and Chairman of the Board PANELISTS Diario El Día, La Plata, Buenos Aires PANELISTS Kavi Chongkittavorn Wilfred D. Kiboro Hasan Cemal Assistant Group Editor, Nation Multimedia Group, Chairman, IPI Kenya Host Committee Columnist, Milliyet, Istanbul Bangkok and Group Chief Executive, Nation Media Group Bart Dijkstra Simon K.C. Li Ltd, Nairobi Director, Communications Assistance Foundation Assistant Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, (CAF/SCO), Hilversum, The Netherlands Johann P. Fritz Los Angeles, CA Anthony Heard Director of IPI Bo Maltesen Former Editor, The Cape Times, Cape Town; Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen and Special Adviser in the Presidency, South Africa SPEAKERS Russell Mills Bernard Margueritte Dean, School of Media and Design, Algonquin Heinz Schaden President, International Communications College, Ottawa; and former Publisher, Ottawa Mayor of the City of Salzburg Forum, Warsaw Citizen, Ottawa Mogens Schmidt Wolfgang Schüssel Director, Division of Freedom of Expression, Federal Chancellor of Austria Democracy and Peace, UNESCO, Paris PRESENTATION OF THE “FREE MEDIA PIONEER 2003” DINNER AT THE SESSION II AWARD RESIDENZ PALACE awarded to the Media Council of Tanzania “Analysing the World Summit on the Information Society” Jenerali Ulimwengu Vice President, Media Council of Tanzania, Chairperson Dar Es Salaam Ilse Brandner-Radinger Secretary General, Presseclub Concordia, Vienna DINNER AT THE Opening Statement STIEGL BREWERY James Ottaway Chairman, World Press Freedom Committee; Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Co., New York, NY DISCUSSANTS Raymond Louw Editor and Publisher, Southern Africa Report, Johannesburg Alain Modoux Senior Adviser to UNESCO for the WSIS, Geneva LUNCH AT THE SHERATON HOTEL 2 MONDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER Salzburg Congress Centre Salzburg Congress Centre SESSION IV SESSION VI PANELISTS “Media in War Zones “Media Self-Regulation: Franziska Augstein and Regions of Conflict” A Press Freedom Issue” Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich Gilbert Grellet Chairperson Chairperson Director, External Relations, Agence France Presse Christian Rainer Hubert Feichtlbauer (AFP), Paris Editor-in-Chief, profil, Vienna Former Chairman, Austrian Press Council Daniel Hamilton Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International PANELISTS PANELISTS Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Baker Robert Pinker Washington, DC; and former U.S. Deputy Assistant World News Editor, BBC, London Privacy Commissioner and former Acting Chairman, Secretary of State for European Affairs Hanoch Marmari Press Complaints Commission, London Stuart Loory Editor-in-Chief, Ha’aretz, Tel Aviv Keith Spicer Editor, IPI Global Journalist; and Lee Hills Chair Reese Schonfeld Director, Institute for Media, Peace & Security, in Free Press Studies, University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, MO Co-Founder and former President, CNN, Atlanta University for Peace, Paris; and former Chairman, Canadian Radio-Television Victor de la Serna Peter Preston and Telecommunications Commission, Ottawa Director, Guardian Foundation, London Deputy Editor, El Mundo, Madrid Joerg Steinbach Chairman, Complaints Commission, German Press Council, Bonn SESSION V SESSION VIII Jenerali Ulimwengu “The Oslo Accords – 10 Years On” “The International Vice President, Media Council of Tanzania, News Safety Institute” Dar Es Salaam Chairperson Andreas Unterberger Viktor Hermann Chairperson Editor-in-Chief, Die Presse, Vienna Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Foreign Editor, Claus Reitan Salzburger Nachrichten, Salzburg Editor-in-Chief, Tiroler Tageszeitung, Innsbruck DINNER AT Speaker Speaker ST. PETER’S ABBEY Yossi Beilin Rodney Pinder Former Justice Minister and former Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Director, International News Safety Institute (INSI), Brussels SESSION VII Farewell Remarks “The Transatlantic Rift” Gerfried Sperl LUNCH AT THE Chairman, IPI Austrian National Committee; Chairperson and Editor-in-Chief, Der Standard, Vienna SHERATON HOTEL Eugen Freund Special Correspondent, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), Vienna FAREWELL LUNCH IPI GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT THE SHERATON HOTEL for IPI Members only Introductory Remarks Sir Peter Ustinov 3 EDITORIAL From Nairobi to Salzburg and back Michael Kudlak press release the decision to cancel the Nairobi ified panel of experts, including Austrian For- Congress Coordinator & Editor, IPI Congress Report congress. Although an unjust blow to the peo- eign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner, discus- ple of Kenya in general and the Kenyan organ- sed, among other things, the role of the media he first warning came on 28 November ising committee in particular, “IPI believed in consolidating pluralism and democracy T 2002. A car bomb attack on an Israeli- that it was only prudent not to go ahead with around the world. owned hotel in the Kenyan coastal city of the meeting in Nairobi.” At the same time, IPI Panelists in the next session, “Analysing the Mombasa killed three Israelis and 12 Ken- expressed the hope that it would be able to hold World Summit on the Information Society yans. On the same day, two surface-to-air mis- a future congress in Kenya in the near future. (WSIS)”, discussed the serious threats to press siles narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet This left the Secretariat with the option of freedom and the free flow of information on taking off from Mombasa airport. either cancelling the 2003 IPI World Congress the Internet posed by the UN-sponsored WSIS, In May 2003, only weeks before the IPI altogether or finding an attractive alternative to be held in Geneva and Tunis in December World Congress was scheduled to begin in venue and putting together a full and com- 2003 and November 2005, respectively. Nairobi on 1 June, carefully coordinated sui- pelling programme in just a few months. After In the session, “SARS and the Media”, cide bombings were launched within days exploring a range of possible venues, it was panelists discussed the role of the media, as against foreign targets in Saudi Arabia and decided to hold the congress in Salzburg, well as China’s culture of silence, in the recent Morocco. Suicide bombers attacked expatriate Austria, just 269 kilometres west of Vienna. spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syn- housing compounds in Riyadh on 12 May, Over the summer, the Secretariat set about drome (SARS). killing 35 people, including nine Americans. looking for sponsors and recruiting prominent Two related sessions, “Media in War Zones On 16 May, at least five blasts in Casablanca politicians, experts and media representatives and Regions of Conflict” and “The Interna- killed 45 people and left at least 100 others to take part in panel sessions ranging from “The tional News Safety Institute (INSI)”, analysed injured. The suicide bomb attacks were aimed Clash of Civilisations” and “The Transatlantic the grave dangers facing journalists in so many at a Jewish community centre, a Spanish res- Rift” to “SARS and the Media” and “The parts of the world, including Iraq, where news taurant, a five-star international hotel and the World Summit on the Information Society”. organisations