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2nd Al Jazeera Forum: Defending Freedom, Defining Responsibility

Posted January 25th, 2006 by quarsan

We have been kindly invited to attend The 2nd Al Jazeera Forum: Defending Freedom, Defining Responsibility in Doha, Qatar from January 31st – February 2nd, 2006. We will be staying on after the event for follow up work.

There are some serious and interesting issues being debated at this forum, including topics such as:

  • The World Media: Building Bridges of Understanding or Creating Divisions?
  • Journalism at the Crossroads: Who Defines Professional Ethics?
  • The New Media: Bloggers and Participatory Journalism
  • Challenges to News Organizations in the 21st Century
  • The Media and Power: Freedom of Expression and Political Manipulation
  • Al Jazeera in the Mirror

Full Programme

We hope to be blogging from the conference and posting as many presentations as we can. We are also hoping to record some interviews for the site.

If any of our readers are in Doha, we would like to meet up with you. Please email quarsan at blairwatch.

Any chance you could squeeze

On January 25th, 2006 Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (not verified) says:

Any chance you could squeeze me in your case as Duty Free?

wish we could, but we're

On January 25th, 2006 quarsan says:

wish we could, but we're going teatotal for this trip.

Wow, that's a seriously

On January 25th, 2006 polizeros says:

Wow, that's a seriously excellent list of topics. Wish I could go. Look forward to your reportbacks.

Thanks Bob, we really must

On January 25th, 2006 quarsan says:

Thanks Bob, we really must meet one day. There are some very heavyweight speakers as well and the panels look fascinating. We will try to report back as much as we can. Hopefully we shall be able to carry out some interviews and post them here as we dip[ our toe into the wolrd of podcasts.