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Asia Media Summit 2024

19TH ASIA MEDIA SUMMIT
The Asia Media Summit (AMS) is an annual international media conference organised by AIBD as its flagship event. Every year in consultation with the members, partners and various global media gurus, a theme guides the direction and delivery of the summit. Being a unique broadcasting event in Asia-Pacific, it attracts around 500 top-ranking broadcasters, decision makers, media professionals, regulators, scholars, and stakeholders from within and outside the region. Apart from plenary sessions and pre-summit workshops, Asia Media Summit also provides a platform for intergovernmental dialogues to uplift the benchmarks of the regional media industry.

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AMS 2015 : Moderated Debate

Day 1 – Tuesday, 26th May 2015

1615 – 1730 : Moderated Debate : Journalism, Ethics and Social Media

With the advent of social media, a new breed of journalists is emerging. In blogs and micro blogs, social networking sites and in multimedia content sharing services, these ‘new’ journalists contribute, disseminate and share information. They have also performed news gathering and gatekeeping functions that mainstream media journalists have traditionally carried out. Are mainstream media’s rights, privileges and principles such as truth seeking and independent reporting threatened by the ‘new’ journalists? Are citizen journalists making news more or less accurate? Do we need to reinvent a code of media ethics from the ground up? How do we deal with new values such as transparency over objectivity? How should we treat unfiltered sharing of information over a filtered verification of the facts? What are the best forms of practice, and the norms to guide journalists?

Day 1 – Tuesday, 26th May 2015

1615 – 1730 : Moderated Debate : Journalism, Ethics and Social Media

With the advent of social media, a new breed of journalists is emerging. In blogs and micro blogs, social networking sites and in multimedia content sharing services, these ‘new’ journalists contribute, disseminate and share information. They have also performed news gathering and gatekeeping functions that mainstream media journalists have traditionally carried out. Are mainstream media’s rights, privileges and principles such as truth seeking and independent reporting threatened by the ‘new’ journalists? Are citizen journalists making news more or less accurate? Do we need to reinvent a code of media ethics from the ground up? How do we deal with new values such as transparency over objectivity? How should we treat unfiltered sharing of information over a filtered verification of the facts? What are the best forms of practice, and the norms to guide journalists?

Moderator

 
Ms Nathalie Labourdette
Head, Eurovision Academy, European Broadcasting
Union (EBU)

Penalists

 
Mr Marc Lourdes
Managing Editor, Yahoo! Southeast Asia –
Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo! Singapore, Singapore
Mr Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Chief Executive Officer, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation
(FBC), Fiji
Ms Deborah Steele
Editor, Asia Pacific News Centre, Australian
Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia
Dr. Venkat Iyer
Barrister and Law Commissioner, Northern Ireland
Mr Sami Zeidan
Senior Presenter, Al Jazeera English, Qatar