OWM Global Reporting Summit 2021 (12–13 October)

BOOK TICKETS

DAY ONE • Tues­day, 12 Octo­ber (Online)

The Age of Adap­ta­tion: How inter­na­tion­al news­rooms have piv­ot­ed to face the pan­dem­ic | 11:00 – 12:00 (UTC+1)

News­rooms from across the world will dis­cuss how the pan­dem­ic has impact­ed their report­ing. We’ll hear insights into the new and improved prac­tices that have emerged from neces­si­ty and how they con­tin­ue to report on long-run­ning sto­ries like the cli­mate, covid and refugee cri­sis.

Speak­ers:

• Vic­to­ria Bridges — Act­ing Direc­tor, One World Media (chair)

• Irv­ing Huer­ta — Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ist, Con­nec­tas

• Wale Law­al — Edi­tor-in-Chief, The Repub­lic

• Tim Sin­gle­ton — Head of Inter­na­tion­al News, Sky News

Who Gets To Tell The Sto­ry? | 13:00 – 14:00 (UTC+1)

Sto­ries shape our world, so it mat­ters how they’re told. Join us for three exclu­sive keynotes from our spe­cial guest speak­ers, each explor­ing the pow­er of per­spec­tive:

• The End of the For­eign Cor­re­spon­dent? - Heba Aly, The New Human­i­tar­i­an - In the last year, many media organ­i­sa­tions have been try­ing to improve racial jus­tice and rep­re­sen­ta­tion with­in their news­rooms. But what does that look like on the glob­al scale? How does inter­na­tion­al jour­nal­ism chal­lenge the pow­er struc­tures embed­ded in the pro­duc­tion of news? In this keynote, Heba Aly, CEO at The New Human­i­tar­i­an will share her vision of how media out­lets can decolonise their cov­er­age of the glob­al south.

• Activism vs. Jour­nal­ism — Muna & Mohamed Alkurd, Mid­dle East Eye — Out­spo­ken Pales­tin­ian sib­lings, Muna & Mohamed Alkurd will explore the dif­fer­ences (and sim­i­lar­i­ties) between their work as both activists and jour­nal­ists. They will dis­cuss the risks tak­en by those report­ing on the ground and how inter­na­tion­al media plat­forms can work to bet­ter pro­tect them.

• How influ­en­tial is media in defin­ing Africa’s sto­ry? — Moky Maku­ra, Africa No Fil­ter — The Economist’s fre­quent­ly cit­ed; ‘Africa the hope­less con­ti­nent’ cov­er of 2000 was a pow­er­ful tes­ta­ment to the influ­ence of media in shap­ing opin­ions about the con­ti­nent. But have per­cep­tions changed since then? And what is the media’s role in retelling the sto­ry?

Pod­cast Pro­duc­tion Mas­ter­class: Peo­ple Fix­ing The World | 14:30 – 15:30 (UTC+1)

The BBC’s Peo­ple Fix­ing The World pod­cast team will take us behind the scenes of this award-win­ning series. From sea­weed farm­ers fight­ing the cli­mate cri­sis in Zanz­ibar to the sci­en­tists pre­vent­ing dengue fever in Colom­bia, we’ll hear what makes a great solu­tions-based sto­ry and the secrets to pro­duc­ing this fas­ci­nat­ing week­ly pod­cast.

Speak­ers:

• Anna Doble — Dig­i­tal Edi­tor, BBC World Ser­vice, Eng­lish

• Ali­son Gee — Edi­tor, Peo­ple Fix­ing The World & News­cast

Report­ing Cri­sis with Com­pas­sion: A trau­ma-informed approach to sup­port­ing refugee sto­ry­tellers | 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC+1)

In part­ner­ship with British Red Cross

Experts from the media and NGO sec­tor will guide you through this prac­ti­cal toolk­it to using col­lab­o­ra­tive work tech­niques to inform your report­ing on the migrant and refugee cri­sis.

Speak­ers:

• Rebec­ca Gilbert — Head of News, British Red Cross (chair)

• Nad­ja Drost — PBS New­shour Cor­re­spon­dent

• Jo Healey — BBC jour­nal­ist & author of Trau­ma Report­ing

• Darsh­na Soni — Home Affairs Cor­re­spon­dent, Chan­nel 4 News

• Voic­es Net­work Ambas­sador

DAY TWO • Wednes­day, 13 Octo­ber (Online & Lon­don)

Wel­come address from Samir Shah, Chair of One World Media | 14.00 — 14.05

Forced to Flee: What next for exiled jour­nal­ists? | 14:05 – 15:05 (UTC+1)

As the threat to press free­dom ris­es and those who report the truth are increas­ing­ly forced to flee their homes, we’ll hear from exiled jour­nal­ists who have had to rebuild their lives and careers, and dis­cuss what more the media indus­try can do to sup­port them.

Speak­ers:

• Dania Akkad — Mid­dle East Eye (chair)

• Vivi­enne Fran­cis — Refugee Jour­nal­ism Project

• Osama Gaweesh — Edi­tor-in-Chief, Egypt Watch

Meet The Com­mis­sion­ers: How to keep the cli­mate cri­sis on the front page | 15:15 – 16:15 (UTC+1)

As COP26 looms, we’ll be talk­ing to top com­mis­sion­ers from the likes of Al Jazeera and BBC to hear how to keep the cli­mate cri­sis at the top of the news agen­da and the inno­v­a­tive approach­es they hope to see in a pitch.

Speak­ers:

• Sam Sutaria — Head of Strat­e­gy, Water­Bear Net­work (chair)

• Aman­da Bur­rell — Exec­u­tive Pro­duc­er, Earth­rise Al Jazeera

• Philip­pa Nut­tall — Envi­ron­ment and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Edi­tor, The New States­man

• Har­ri­et Oliv­er — Edi­tor, BBC World Ser­vice (Africa Youth Pro­grammes / Dig­i­tal Con­tent)

Chal­leng­ing The West­ern Lens On Glob­al Report­ing | 16:15 – 17:00 (UTC+1)

David Hearst in con­ver­sa­tion with Dr Dalia Fah­my

Join us for this time­ly dis­cus­sion as we explore how west­ern media cov­er­age of inter­na­tion­al events has shaped per­cep­tions of the peo­ple at the heart of the sto­ries. How do we chal­lenge this west­ern lib­er­al per­spec­tive and the assump­tion of a moral right to inter­vene? What does this say about us, and how is this chang­ing?

Speak­ers:

• David Hearst — Edi­tor-in-Chief, Mid­dle East Eye

• Dr Dalia Fah­my — Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, Long Island Uni­ver­si­ty

Net­work­ing Drinks at the Front­line Club, Lon­don | 17:00 (UTC+1)

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More info:

All ses­sions will be avail­able online via a Vimeo Livestream or Zoom webi­nar.

Day two of the One World Media Glob­al Report­ing Sum­mit 2021 will be host­ed at the Front­line Club in Lon­don. If you wish to attend these events in per­son, please ensure you pur­chase the Lon­don Event Pass.

Stan­dard covid safe­ty mea­sures will be in place at the Front­line Club:

• Hand sani­tis­er will be avail­able at the venue

• Social­ly dis­tanced seat­ing will be in place

• We rec­om­mend that guests wear a face mask

• We advise all guests to take a lat­er­al flow test 24 hours before the event

If you have any ques­tions or access require­ments, please con­tact us on contact@oneworldmedia.org.uk in advance of the event.

Dis­count­ed Tick­ets:

Dis­count­ed stu­dent tick­ets are avail­able at £9 to those cur­rent­ly in edu­ca­tion.

To encour­age equal oppor­tu­ni­ties, we also have a lim­it­ed num­ber of dis­count­ed tick­ets avail­able for under­rep­re­sent­ed groups (peo­ple of colour, eth­nic groups, women, LGBTQ+, or peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties) and low-income par­tic­i­pants. Dis­count­ed tick­ets are allo­cat­ed to select­ed appli­cants.