2012 Annual Conference

Copenhagen, Denmark

May 20-23, 2012

 

Preliminary program – April  20th

Please note: The program Monday and Tuesday will have full translation from/to English, Spanish and French.

 

SUNDAY MAY 20th

13.00           Board meeting at JP/Politikens Hus

       

18.00           The National Museum – special tour for ONO-delegates

                      (optional)  

 

19.00           Welcome reception and dinner at The National Museum

(a 10 minutes walk from hotel Ascot)

 

 

MONDAY May 21th 

9.00                Registration and coffee – in DR Byen  (The Big Meeting Room)

 

9.30                Welcome address

                        State of ONO / Jacob Mollerup, President of ONO

 

9.45               Quality, errors and corrections – an international comparison

                       Moderator:  Readers editor Deidre Edgar, L.A. Times.

-       The Danish “quality-project” – what did we find?

Professor Mark Oersten (RUC)

-       ABC testing itself – how and why?

                             Director of editorial policy, Paul Chadwick, ABC

-       Questions and discussion

          

11.15            Short break

 

11.30            Multiple errors in the multiplatform newsroom?

           Are media responsible for all errors?

           Moderator:  Readers editor Deidre Edgar, L.A. Times

           Panel:

-       Director of editorial policy, Paul Chadwick, ABC

-       Médiateur Pascal Galinier, Le Monde (To be confirmed)

-       Director of editorial policy David Jordan, BBC


 

12.30           Lunch in The Concerthouse

 

13. 30                      Who are you?

  Moderator:  Readers’ editor Margreet Vermeulen, De Volkskrant

  All news ombudsmen present give a short presentation of themselves.

 

14.00          The global ONO-survey 2012

 Presented by ombudsman Tarmu Tammerk, Estonian           Broadcasting.

 

14.30          News Ombudsmen in Latin America and on The Iberian Peninsula

                    Trends and characteristics.

                    Moderator: Defensor Gerardo Albarrán de Alba, MVS.

                    Keynote: Lic. Flavia Pauwels, Buenos Aires University

 

15.15         Short break

 

15.30         La Mediatrice – the French model

                   Moderator: Ombudsman Pierre Tourangeau, CBC (French service)

                   Keynote:  Marie-Laure Augry, FR3

 

16.15         Using the handbook – and new plans for outreach

                    Moderator: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Exec. Director, ONO

 

17.00         Closing

 

 

Evening free

TUESDAY MAY 22 th

 

8.45          Registration and coffee – in DR Byen  (The Big Meeting Room)

 

9.00          After “Phonegate” – self-regulation at a crossroad

                  Moderator:  Judith Whetstine, The Gazette

                  1. Session: Setting the scene – UK and Australia

-       Behind Phonegate  – what is so special with Britain and its   tabloids? Why all the poison?

Readers editor Chris Elliot, The Guardian                         

-       The Leveson Inquiry and after. A new regulatory body? More readers’ editors?   

Readers’ editor Stephen Pritchard, The Observer

-        The Australian connection:  Scandal, Media Inquiry and worries about the results.  Director Paul Chadwick, ABC, and ombudsman Sally Begbie, SBS.

 

10.30        2.session:  Self-regulation has failed in Britain? Is it doomed to fail again?       

                   Keynote: Professor Steven Barnett, University of Westminster

 

11.00        Short break

 

11.15        3. session:  Where are we heading?

                  Moderator:  Public editor Karen Rothmyer, The Star

                 

Panel:

-       Readers’ editor Stephen Pritchard, The Observer

-       Defensor del lector, Tomàs Delclós, El País (to be confirmed)

-       Ombudsman Yavus Baydar, Sabah

-       Professor Stephen Barnett

-       Ombudsman Mike Getler, PBS

 

12.30      Lunch in The Concerthouse                                                 

 

13.30     Shoptalks and cases – moderated by Edward Shumacher-Matos, NPR

(Based on specific cases and problems to be suggested by the membership – partly via the questionnaire. Edward selects and moderates. Examples: How to define public interest? Breaking confidentiality – a Danish case.  The right to reply. Covering financial crisis – are the media part of the problem? The use of social media.  When to delete stories from the web-site? Hidden camera etc.)

 

15.15    Short break   

 

15.30    Business meeting

 

17.00    End of program

 

19.30    Dinner in Tivoli Gardens – Restaurant Grøften

 

 

WEDNESDAY  MAY 23 th

 

8.20    Departure from hotel Ascot by bus

 

9.00    Welcome speech at TV 2, Teglholms Alle 16, Copenhagen.

 

9.10   Do we have the media we deserve?

           Special keynote: The Speaker of The Danish Parliament, Mogens Lykketoft

          

9.50   Plans for our part of the world – debates in five sessions

-       The French-speaking

-       The Spanish-speaking

-       The North-Americans

-       The North-Europeans

-       The Africans and Asians

 

11.00    Ombudsmen under pressure

               International panel reports from the life of a news ombudsman

                Moderator:  Lars Bennike

 

12.00    Light meal

 

12.45     Departure by boat for central Copenhagen

 

13.30    Arrival by boat at Gammel Strand –  end of official program.

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