Dates: 28-30 May 2010 Location: Bucharest, Romania
This conference will bring together decision makers from media and civil society organizations in new EU countries, to discuss media coverage of diversity and develop action plans for future work in this area.
Participants will be attending from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The conference is a follow up to the European Commission Study on Media & Diversity, which identified initiatives by, or about, the media that countered discrimination and addressed diversity in a responsible way, throughout 30 European countries. The study produced recommendations for policy makers, the media industry and civil society organizations on the EU and national level.
At the conference participants will have the opportunity to discuss best practice, look at its applicability in their own countries and develop partnerships with other organizations to implement action plans to address media coverage of diversity. The EC Study on Media & Diversity recommendations will be used as a starting point for discussions.
The event will also give media organizations the opportunity to network with other media organizations in new EU countries and to learn about the benefits of ensuring that their content reflects the diversity of their societies. Civil society organizations will have the opportunity to learn about how to engage more effectively with the media.
We believe that this work will help all of us to understand how good media practice can help tackle the challenge of diversity – one of the most important treasures of our democratic societies.
An online facility will be launched at the conference to support continued networking and discussion following the event.
The conference is part of a broader project, ‘A European Dialogue on the EC Study on Media & Diversity’, and is being organized by the Media Diversity Institute, London, and the Centre for Independent Journalism, Bucharest, and is funded by the European Commission’s Europe for Citizens Programme, the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the Council of Europe’s Anti-Discrimination Campaign and the Romanian Government.
Please note that attendance at the conference is by invitation only. For more information on the conference please contact Farid Littleproud at the Media Diversity Institute at:
