This panel explores the benefits and challenges of 'open journalism,' the term used to describe the new, participatory model of news production based on the open exchange of information, content, and ideas between media outlets and audiences.

The event will be livestreamed here.

Program

9:30 Welcoming remarks

John Shattuck, President and Rector, Central European University;
Amy Brouillette, Director of the European Media Project, Center for Media, Data and Society, CMDS);
Gordana Janković, Head of Media Department of the OSCE Mission to Serbia
Vladan Joler, Director, Share Foundation
Ivan Szekely, Senior Research Fellow, Counsellor, OSA Archivum

10:00-11:30 Panel discussion

Panelists:

Frane Maroević, Senior Adviser, OSCE Representative of the Freedom of the Media
Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal , The Guardian News and Media
Sejal Parmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Legal Studies, CEU
Lenart J. Kučić, Technology and Media correspondent (Delo)

Moderator:

Ellen Hume, Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS)

This panel discussion is the opening session of the “Gaining a Digital Edge: Journalists, Watchdogs and Freedom of Expression 2.0” regional training and networking conference, co-organized by the CEU School of Public Policy’s Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University, OSCE Mission to Serbia, and the Share Foundation (Serbia). The three-day conference is sponsored by European Commission under the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom pilot program framework; the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the OSCE Mission to Serbia.