EducationKeynote speakers
Alexandra Borchardt
Director of Leadership Programmes, Reuters Institute of the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford Alexandra Borchardt is Director of Leadership Programmes at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. There she develops and leads…
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Aliaume Leroy
Aliaume Leroy (@Yaolri on Twitter) is an open source investigative journalist with BBC Africa Eye, Africa-focused investigative unit of BBC World Service, and a contributor to Bellingcat. Before, he was a campaigner on the Conflict & Fragile States strand at…
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Adelheid Feilcke
Head of the European Languages Desk Deutsche Welle The European desk consists of nine East- and Southeast European language departments, including Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Macedonian, Polish, Rumanian and Serbian. Theses languages departments have a daily media outlet on…
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Emily Kasriel
Head of Editorial Partnerships & Special Projects, BBC World Service Group Emily leads high profile projects across the BBC. These include Crossing Divides – a pan BBC multi-platform season about bringing people together in a fragmented world across lines of…
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Folker Hanusch
Folker Hanusch is Professor of Journalism at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, and Adjunct Professor at QUT. Originally from Germany, Prof. Hanusch spent 17 years in Australia, where he was recently Associate Professor and Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow in…
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Greta Gober
Greta Gober is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Leading Research Environment in Global Media Studies and Politics of Mediated Communication at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden. Her research focuses on production culture, communication and gendered…
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Jiri Majstr
CEO, ČTK (Czech News Agency) A journalist since the year 1980, he has been close to everything that has affected communication in the last 40 years. He was not only close to successful projects, but also had an opportunity to…
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Mark Rice-Oxley
Head of Special Projects, The Guardian Mark Rice-Oxley is a journalist who has spent nearly 30 years working in international news, firstly as a foreign correspondent and latterly as an editor at the Guardian. In his latest role as head…
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Silvie Lauder
Silvie Lauder is an award-winning Czech journalist. She studied journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. However, her real education came in 2004 when she started working at Respekt, a weekly magazine published in Prague. Before moving to Respekt,…
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Titus Plattner
Innovation Project Manager Titus has been an investigative journalist for nearly 20 years. He is a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships alumnus, and vice-chair of the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Network Committee. @titusplattner…
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Zuzanna Ziomecka
Zuzanna Ziomecka is an American-educated Polish media maker professionally involved in print, television and internet projects since the beginning of the millennium. She was awarded editor of the year for founding and leading Gaga – the first Polish lifestyle magazine…
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