Panel 3 - Ginna Lindberg, Head, Foreign News, Swedish Broadcasting, Sweden

UNESCO Colloquium Journalism Under Fire: Challenges of our Times
Panel 3: A crisis of audience identity - social networks, computer-generated misinformation gathered prominent journalists, as well as representatives of media development organizations and of social media networks, to discuss the extent to new players, including active audiences for good and ill, impact on global and national media and news agendas. It will address such issues as social network companies, how algorithms affect news on their networks and the issue of audience fragmentation and information bubbles.
Introduction by Mr Frank La Rue, Assistant Director General, UNESCO
Moderator: Maaly Hazzaz, UNESCO
Sub-session on “Fake news”
• Mr Serge Schmemann, The New York Times, USA
• Ms Evangelina de Bourgoing, Director of Programmes, Global Editors Network
• Ms Ginna Lindberg, Head, Foreign News, Swedish Broadcasting, Sweden
• Ms Verashni Pillay, Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post, South Africa
Sub-session on impact of internet intermediaries
• Mr Espen Egil Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Aftenposten, Norway
• Mr Richard Allan, Director of Policy in Europe, Facebook
• Mr Samuel Laurent, Head, Les décodeurs, Le Monde, France
• Ms Maria Ressa, Editor in chief and CEO, Rappler, Philippines
Q&A session
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