Digital Agenda per l'Europa e trasparenza dei media

Link: Digital Agenda for Europe

Programma:

08:00 – 09:15 Registration and coffee

09:15 – 09:45 Welcoming speech by Robert Madelin, Director-General, DG CNECT, European Commission

Case studies:

09:45 – 10:45  Austria

• Moderator: Susanne Nikoltchev,  Executive Director, European Audiovisual Observatory
• Dr. Michael R. Kogler, Deputy Director, Department for media law and coordination information society, Constitutional Service, Federal Chancellery of Austria
• Josef Barth, Founder, The Freedom of Information Forum
• Josef Trappel, Professor for media policy and media economics & Head of the Institute for Communication Studies, University of Salzburg

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15  Croatia

• Moderator: Prof. Robert Picard, Director of Research, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
• Damir Hajduk, Deputy Chairman, Croatian Agency for Electronic Media
• Nenad Sebek, Spokesperson, Regional Cooperation Council
• Davor Glavaš, Journalist and media expert

12:15 – 13:15  Finland

• Moderator: Lorena Boix Alonso, Head of Unit, Converging Media and Content, DG CNECT, European Commission
• Sini Wirén, Ministerial Adviser, Communications Market, Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications
• Risto Uimonen, Chairman, Council for Mass Media in Finland
• Kallina Simeonoff, Policy Officer - Company Law and Corporate Governance Desk Officer, DG MARKT, European Commission
• Jarno Hartikainen, EU Correspondent, Finnish business media outlet Kauppalehti

13:15 – 14:45 Lunch break

14:45 – 15:00 Report/summary on morning panels, Prof. Tim Suter (Rapporteur), Managing Director, Perspective Associates

15:00 – 16:30 High level debate – Transparency of media ownership, media freedom and pluralism

Moderator: Dr Damian Tambini, Senior Lecturer, Programme Director: MSc Media & Communications (Governance), LSE

Including the following panelists:  

• Minister Miguel Maduro, Portuguese Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister and for Regional Development, Member of the High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism
• Christian van Thillo,  CEO, De Persgroup & Chairman of the EU Media Futures Forum
• Helen Darbishire, Vice President and Executive Director, Info Access

16:30 – 17:00 Speech by Vice President Neelie Kroes