2012 Annual Conference

Copenhagen, Denmark

May 20-23, 2012

 

Preliminary program – April  20^th

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

 

SUNDAY MAY 20^th

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 21^th 

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.