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Welcome to PRAGUE MEDIA POINT – a virtual conference for journalists, media professionals, and scholars on December 1-11, 2020

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PRAGUE MEDIA POINT is a joint project by KEYNOTE and Transitions. Our mission is to foster the media’s work for the public good by convening solution-oriented expert gatherings that bring together unique, regional perspectives and provide lasting networking experiences.

Per this year’s theme – “What’s Working” – discussions will focus on adapting or replicating successful projects and approaches in different contexts. The agenda includes 36 sessions split into four main areas addressing some of the most pressing issues of today:

  • ON TODAY’S NEWS AGENDA –  media freedom, the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and diversity.
  • GROW AND INNOVATE – self-help for news organizations in these challenging times.
  • SCHOLARLY INSIGHTS – presentations on current research, COVID-fueled innovations, and more.
  • INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM – tracking organized crime, Chinese influence, and engaging the audience in long-term investigations.

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Thursday, December 10 • 17:25 - 18:00
Journalism and Social Justice: A Reform Agenda

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Objectivity has been the goal in U.S. journalism for about a hundred years, but now its normative aspirations have increasingly come into question. With interactive channels of communication and more populist political environments, journalists have lost their privileged vantage point as arbiters of truth. In the United States and beyond, the Black Lives Matter movement, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic have heightened public awareness to blind spots in objective information. This presentation explores the role of social justice in current journalism, highlighting how journalists can reconcile their quest for truth with acknowledging calls for social justice and as a result strengthen their trustworthiness, accountability, and transparency. How is social justice constructed in journalism? What are some of the attempts to reform the current discourse? What ethical considerations should journalists make? This presentation will provide answers based on textual analysis of major trade publications.
Speakers
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Thomas R. Schmidt

Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
Thomas is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at University of California, San Diego, and the author of the book Rewriting the Newspaper: The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism (University of Missouri Press, 2019) and numerous journal articles (e.g... Read More →

Thursday December 10, 2020 17:25 - 18:00 CET
Virtual
  Scholarly Insights

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