5:00-6:30 PM: Parallel Workshops
Workshop 1# -The Importance of Fact Checking in an Era of Mass Information – Linda Qiu, Fact Checking Journalist, the NYT.
* The workshop will take place at Touro Restaurant’s terrace
Workshop 2# -How to Fight SLAPP Lawsuits Without Fear – Avner Hofstein, Chief Investigative Correspondent and Elad Man, Chief Legal Advisor of “Hatzlacha”.
* The workshop will take place in JPC lounge
Workshop 3# -Mobile Journalism – One-person Storytelling – Leonor Suarez, Mobile Journalism Expert.
* The workshop will take place in Djanogly Hall
6:30-7:00 PM: Get together & Refreshments
Session in Memory of Prof. Moshe Negbi Z”L
7:00-7:30 PM: Greetings and opening remarks
Felice Friedson, President and CEO, “The Media Line” News Agency
Dan Meridor, Former minister and MK, Chairman of JPC
7:30-7:45 PM: Linda Qiu, Fact Check Reporter, the NYT – Why Facts Matter, and More So Today
7:45-8:40 PM: Panel: From Watchdog of Democracy to Enemy of the People: Governments and the Media
Scott Kraft, Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times
Paula Slier, Middle East Bureau Chief, Russia Today
Magdalena Rigamonti, Senior Polish Journalist
David Horovitz, Editor, Times of Israel
Yair Tarchitsky, Chairman of The Union pf Journalists in Israel
Moderator- Mr. Uri Dromi, Director General, Jerusalem Press Club
8:40-9:15 PM: Foreign Press in the Eyes of the Israeli Press (and Vice Versa) – A One-on-one Dialogue with Senior Journalists from Israel and Abroad.
Joseph Federman, AP Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian Territories and Former Chairman of the Foreign Press Association
Oren Nahari, Foreign Editor, Walla News