International Youth Conference
Breaking News, Making Headlines:
The Role of Media In Conflict
October 10-16, 2003, New York City, NY
The Seeds of Peace “Breaking News, Making Headlines” Conference is helping future leaders — Israelis and Arabs, Indians and Pakistanis, as well as teenagers from Afghanistan, Balkans, divided Cyprus, and the U.S. — develop the independent thinking skills necessary to decipher media and utilize it to make their voices heard.
Each morning, plenary sessions brought 125 “Seeds” youth, ages 15-19, into contact with leading journalists, editors, academics, and corporate executives representing a range of media outlets around the world. Topics focussed on the role of media in conflict, specifically addressing media responsibility and ethics; freedom of the press; covering conflict; defining news; the line between news and propaganda; and the use of media as a part of diplomacy.
In the afternoons, conference delegates were involved in one of ten workshop groups with professional facilitators and experts in the field. Each team was assigned the task of designing and creating a specific media product. A media specialist and several technicians worked with each working group in order to contribute the knowledge and technical support needed to help the youth meet the objectives of the conference.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
Welcome
Aaron Miller, Seeds of Peace Janet Wallach, Seeds of Peace
Introduction to the Role of Media in Conflict Areas
Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org
Media Ethics and Responsibility
Marvin Kalb, Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy
Charles Lewis, Hearst Newspaper
Arshad Mohammed, Reuters
Charlie Wolfson, CBS News
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
Media as a Tool for Activism and Education
Danny Labin, Sesame Workshop
Shamil Idriss, Search for Common Ground
Shira Golding, MediaRights.org
Technology and the Media
Kenneth Cukier, National Center for Digital Government
Catherine Davis, Yahoo! Education
Michael Leeds, CMP Media
Paul Shore, gnn.tv (Guerilla News Network)
Sreenath Sreenivasan, Columbia University School of Journalism
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13
Freedom of the Press
Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware
David Makovsky, The Washington Institute
Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland
Mohammed Wahby, Al-Mussawar Magazine (Egypt)
What is News?
Andrea Koppel, CNN
Ron Brownstein, The Los Angeles Times
Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
Hisham Melhem, As-Safir (Lebanon), and Al-Qabas (Kuwait)
Judith Miller, The New York Times
Michael Wolff, New York Magazine
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14
Q&A with Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Chief International Correspondent
[Via Satellite from London]
The Media in Conflict Regions
Ray Suarez, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Yoram Deckel, Channel One (Israel)
Abderrrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera
Scott Simon, Host, Weekend Edition, National Public Radio
Fasih Ahmed, Friday Times and Daily Times (Pakistan)
K.P. Nayar, The Telegraph (India)
The Power of the Image: War Photography
Thomas Keenan, Bard College
Pedro Gasiglia-Linger, contributor to The New York Times and La Nación
Ron Haviv, Newsweek
Fred Ritchin, Pixel Press
Moises Saman, Newsday
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15
Government and the News: Truth or Propaganda
Bernard Kalb, former assistant secretary of state for public affairs
Raghida Dergham, Al-Hayat
Nathan Guttman, Ha’aretz
Mike McCurry, Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
Where Politics Meets the News: Public Diplomacy
James Clad, Georgetown University
Ambassador Marc Ginsberg, Layalina Productions
Talal Al Haj, Abu Dhabi Television
John Zogby, Zogby International
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16
Final Workshop Presentations by Seeds of Peace Graduates
Remarks by David Westin, ABC News
Presentation of Products to Her Majesty Queen Noor of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
