Sign the dec­la­ra­tion here.

April 9, 2022

Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine has under­lined once again the essen­tial role of inde­pen­dent, eth­i­cal jour­nal­ism in assist­ing cit­i­zens to make life-or-death deci­sions, inform­ing the world, and hold­ing the pow­er­ful to account.

As a pow­er­ful anti­dote to the dis­in­for­ma­tion and pro­pa­gan­da that char­ac­terise hybrid war­fare, and as a pil­lar of democ­ra­cy upon which oth­er free­doms and rights depend, jour­nal­ism in Ukraine is under­go­ing a ter­ri­ble assault.

The tar­get­ing, tor­tur­ing, and killing of jour­nal­ists is abhor­rent and must be stopped. Those respon­si­ble must be held account­able and brought to jus­tice under nation­al and inter­na­tion­al law. Vicious online attacks against news organ­i­sa­tions and indi­vid­ual jour­nal­ists must also cease. We con­demn Russia’s attacks on press free­dom and free­dom of expres­sion in Ukraine in the strongest pos­si­ble terms.

The safe­ty and secu­ri­ty of all jour­nal­ists to report freely are essen­tial to ensure that the world under­stands the real­i­ty and facts of the ongo­ing war, includ­ing the human­i­tar­i­an con­se­quences.

We stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all jour­nal­ists and inde­pen­dent media cov­er­ing Russia’s aggres­sion against Ukraine.

The greater the threat to Ukrain­ian jour­nal­ists’ lives, liveli­hoods, and abil­i­ty to do their jobs, the greater will be our efforts to sup­port them. Fund­ing, pro­tec­tive gear, equip­ment, hous­ing, train­ing, office space in for­eign cities, and psy­choso­cial sup­port – we will do every­thing we can to sup­port our Ukrain­ian col­leagues’ abil­i­ty to con­tin­ue report­ing and serv­ing the urgent needs of their audi­ences.

A window of opportunity for journalism and journalists everywhere

In coun­tries with access to inde­pen­dent sources of news, an often scep­ti­cal pub­lic are recog­nis­ing the brav­ery, com­mit­ment and pro­fes­sion­al­ism of jour­nal­ists and media out­lets, both Ukrain­ian and inter­na­tion­al. Even gov­ern­ments with hos­tile dis­po­si­tions to free, inde­pen­dent media are being forced to acknowl­edge the vital role jour­nal­ism plays in ensur­ing that the world sees the inva­sion of Ukraine for what it is. Tech com­pa­nies too are wak­ing up to the fact that not all infor­ma­tion is equal, and that there is a moral imper­a­tive to give due promi­nence to pro­fes­sion­al, inde­pen­dent, pub­lic inter­est jour­nal­ism.

This nascent, new-found and rekin­dled recog­ni­tion of journalism’s val­ue among the pub­lic and pol­i­cy mak­ers is frag­ile. Ukrain­ian reporters and inter­na­tion­al jour­nal­ists report­ing from Ukraine have earned a win­dow of oppor­tu­ni­ty. The great­est leaps of progress are often made in times of cri­sis. We, col­lec­tive­ly, can­not afford to squan­der it.

For the sake of the imme­di­ate future and safe­ty of our Ukrain­ian col­leagues, and the long term via­bil­i­ty of inde­pen­dent, pub­lic inter­est jour­nal­ism every­where, this is a moment that we all need to rise to.

For the benefit of media and journalists everywhere, we:

• Insist that states and armed groups must release all impris­oned and kid­napped jour­nal­ists, includ­ing those detained or sen­tenced under the guise of pro­hibit­ing defama­tion or coun­ter­ing ter­ror­ism;
• Acknowl­edge that many con­flicts and crises have at times not received the unit­ed, rapid and sus­tained response that our col­lec­tive con­science demands;
• Affirm that field pro­duc­ers are jour­nal­ists not “fix­ers” – their lan­guage skills, cul­tur­al and region­al under­stand­ing and strong net­works of con­tacts are cru­cial to inter­na­tion­al report­ing and deserve the same rights, respect, sup­port, social secu­ri­ty and cred­it as all jour­nal­ists cov­er­ing con­flicts.
• Com­mit to inten­si­fy­ing our efforts to sup­port jour­nal­ists in con­flict zones, in exile, and fac­ing hard­ship every­where, includ­ing inde­pen­dent media/journalists from Belarus and Rus­sia who have been forced to flee their coun­tries;
• Russia’s crack­down on dis­sent; its attacks against press free­dom; its intim­i­da­tion of inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ism – these actions are forc­ing jour­nal­ists who remain com­mit­ted to truth-telling and free speech into silence or exile. Russ­ian peo­ple are being denied access to the truth.

To international media and journalists, we ask that you:

• Where legal­ly per­mit­ted, pro­vide sur­plus per­son­al pro­tec­tive equip­ment to organ­i­sa­tions able to trans­port this to Ukraine;
• Draw atten­tion to the social inse­cu­ri­ty of Ukrain­ian field pro­duc­ers and trans­la­tors’ who help for­eign media by pro­vid­ing them with prop­er pay, insur­ance and addi­tion­al safe­ty guar­an­tees;
• Wher­ev­er pos­si­ble make safe­ty train­ing avail­able to Ukrain­ian jour­nal­ists and to all jour­nal­ists, includ­ing free­lancers report­ing from Ukraine, and “show the same con­cern for the wel­fare and safe­ty of free­lancers, local jour­nal­ists and media work­ers as they do for their staff” includ­ing pro­vid­ing the same pro­tec­tive equip­ment to Ukrain­ian col­leagues as to inter­na­tion­al reporters;
• Open your doors to dis­placed jour­nal­ists and news­rooms. Give them some­where to work from. Hire them if you can afford to;
• Lis­ten to the calls of Ukrain­ian col­leagues to use appro­pri­ate and accu­rate lan­guage when report­ing on Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine, con­sis­tent with the eth­i­cal stan­dards of inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ism;

To private and public donors and funders of professional journalism, we ask that you

• Urgent­ly increase and pro­vide flex­i­ble finan­cial sup­port to media that pro­duce inde­pen­dent, eth­i­cal jour­nal­ism, enabling them to hire or keep pay­ing reporters, edi­tors, and pro­duc­ers who are report­ing on the Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine;
• When you fund jour­nal­ism, remem­ber, jour­nal­ism is a pub­lic good. It is an end in itself, a pil­lar of democ­ra­cy upon which many oth­er free­doms and rights depend. Do not under­mine its inde­pen­dence by seek­ing to instru­men­talise it as a tool of strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tion or as a means to achieve oth­er devel­op­ment objec­tives. Treat it with the respect it deserves and fol­low the well-estab­lished best prac­tices and guid­ance on effec­tive sup­port to jour­nal­ism;
• Sim­pli­fy the process of apply­ing for fund­ing in emer­gen­cies: Appli­ca­tion forms must be in local lan­guages and should not require large amounts of inter­net data by requir­ing numer­ous files to be uploaded;
• Ensure that media and jour­nal­ism are includ­ed in all aid coor­di­na­tion mech­a­nisms;
• Pro­vide sup­port not just for news­rooms, but indi­vid­ual jour­nal­ists and free­lancers from Ukraine, as well as via mech­a­nisms of fel­low­ships or con­tent pro­duc­tion projects;
• Con­sid­er pro­vid­ing not only finan­cial sup­port, but also method­olog­i­cal and tech­ni­cal sup­port. This can be the trans­fer of equip­ment for affect­ed edi­tors, train­ing or pub­li­ca­tion of method­olog­i­cal mate­ri­als.

To the EU, EU member states, members of the Media Freedom Coalition and all states that care about the right to freedom of expression and access to information to

• Pro­vide emer­gency visas and safe havens for Ukrain­ian jour­nal­ists, as well as an inde­pen­dent jour­nal­ists from Belarus and Rus­sia, to re-estab­lish their bases of oper­a­tions and con­tin­ue report­ing;
• Con­demn and push back against the trend of crim­i­nal­is­ing jour­nal­ism, a hall­mark of creep­ing author­i­tar­i­an­ism in many parts of the world. Jour­nal­ism is not a crime;
• Use all mul­ti­lat­er­al fora to defend the rights of jour­nal­ists and advance their pro­tec­tion as civil­ians under inter­na­tion­al human­i­tar­i­an law, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the con­text of Russia’s war on Ukraine;
• Con­tribute to all efforts to inves­ti­gate and bring to jus­tice cas­es of jour­nal­ists tar­get­ed in this war.

To technology, telecoms, internet intermediaries and advertisers, we ask you to

• Work with the media and jour­nal­ism com­mu­ni­ty to iden­ti­fy, pro­tect and uplift inde­pen­dent, eth­i­cal jour­nal­ism, fact-check­ing, and media lit­er­a­cy efforts;
• Pre­vent auto­mat­ed take­downs of jour­nal­is­tic con­tent doc­u­ment­ing evi­dence of inter­na­tion­al crimes of aggres­sion, war crimes, crimes against human­i­ty, and oth­er seri­ous human rights vio­la­tions. These need to be avail­able for jour­nal­ists, fact-check­ers, inves­ti­ga­tors and oth­er stake­hold­ers to effec­tive­ly bring per­pe­tra­tors to account and end impuni­ty. Strength­en trans­paren­cy and notice pro­ce­dures, expe­dite appeal and rem­e­dy;
• Reverse com­mer­cial incen­tives – both through algo­rithms and con­tent mod­er­a­tion poli­cies – that dis­crim­i­nate against pub­lic-inter­est journalism’s abil­i­ty to reach audi­ences and mon­e­tise high-qual­i­ty con­tent;
• Work with adver­tis­ers to stop the use of black­list tech­nol­o­gy to block ads from appear­ing next to jour­nal­ism and news media sto­ries that men­tion con­flicts like Russia’s aggres­sion against Ukraine, the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and oth­er crit­i­cal health and social issues;
• Deliv­er inter­net acces­si­bil­i­ty to all: pri­ori­tise main­tain­ing inter­net acces­si­bil­i­ty and con­nec­tiv­i­ty, and pro­mote the right to access infor­ma­tion.

We con­tin­ue to stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with all jour­nal­ists around the world who work in areas of con­flict or where free­dom of expres­sion is lim­it­ed, to deliv­er trust­ed infor­ma­tion in the pub­lic inter­est.

Signatories (organisations):

1. ACOS Alliance
2. Afghanistan Jour­nal­ists Cen­ter (AFJC)
3. Ahval News
4. Alban­ian Media Insti­tute (AMI)
5. ARTICLE 19
6. Asso­ci­ação Brasileira de Jor­nal­is­mo Inves­tiga­ti­vo (Abra­ji)
7. Asso­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Media Work­ers
8. Asso­ci­a­tion des jour­nal­istes européens – France
9. Asso­ci­a­tion of Inde­pen­dent Press (API)
10. BaleBen­gong (Indone­sia)
11. Baltic Inter­net Pol­i­cy Ini­tia­tive
12. Bangladesh NGOs Net­work for Radio and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion
13. BBC Media Action
14. Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists
15. Bor­der Cen­ter for Jour­nal­ists and Blog­gers
16. Cana­di­an Jour­nal­ism Forum on Vio­lence and Trau­ma
17. Cana­di­an Jour­nal­ism Foun­da­tion (CJF)
18. CFI Medias
19. Cen­tre for Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism (CIJ)
20. Cen­tre for Law and Democ­ra­cy (CLD)
21. Cir­cu­lar Ini­tia­tives Roadmap (CIR)
22. Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists (CPJ)
23. Com­mu­ni­ty Media Forum Europe (CMFE)
24. Com­mu­ni­ty Media Solu­tions (CMS)
25. CONNECTAS
26. CRE­O­point
27. The Daphne Caru­a­na Gal­izia Foun­da­tion
28. Daraj Media
29. Dart Cen­ter for Jour­nal­ism and Trau­ma
30. Detec­tor Media, Ukraine
31. Dig­i­tal Con­tent Next
32. DW Akademie
33. elDiario.es
34. EMPOWERHOUSE
35. Eth­i­cal Jour­nal­ism Net­work (EJN)
36. Euro­pean Cen­tre for Press and Media Free­dom (ECPMF)
37. Euro­pean Fed­er­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists (EFJ)
38. Euro­pean Jour­nal­ism Cen­tre (EJC)
39. Fathm
40. Finnish Foun­da­tion for Media and Devel­op­ment (Vikes)
41. Free Press Unlim­it­ed (FPU)
42. Fojo Media Insti­tute
43. Fun­dación Gabo
44. Fon­da­tion Hiron­delle
45. Foun­da­tion “Sous­pilnist”, Ukraine
46. Gian­gia­co­mo Cere­sara, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Spe­cial­ist, Arri­va (Deutsche Bahn)
47. Glob­al Forum for Media Devel­op­ment (GFMD)
48. Glob­al Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ism Net­work (GIJN)
49. Glob­al Youth & News Media
50. The GroundTruth Project
51. IFEX
52. Inde­pen­dent Jour­nal­ism Cen­ter, Moldo­va
53. Inde­pen­dent Media Trade Union of Ukraine
54. Insti­tut Panos Grands Lacs
55. Insti­tute for Region­al Media and Infor­ma­tion (IRMI, Ukraine)
56. Insti­tute of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Stud­ies
57. Insti­tute of Mass Infor­ma­tion, Ukraine
58. Inter­na­tion­al Acad­e­my Ser­bia
59. Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter for Jour­nal­ists
60. Inter­na­tion­al Con­sor­tium of Inves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ists
61. Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute – Inter­na­tion­al Media Cen­ter
62. Inter­na­tion­al Media Sup­port (IMS)
63. Inter­na­tion­al Press Insti­tute (IPI)
64. Internews
65. Internews Ukraine
66. Inter­na­tion­al Fact-Check­ing Net­work (IFCN)
67. Jnomics Media
68. Lviv Media Forum
69. Maharat Foun­da­tion
70. Mag­da­lene
71. Marko Marković, Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, NaftogazTep­lo
72. Media Asso­ci­a­tion for Peace (MAP)
73. Media Devel­op­ment Invest­ment Fund
74. Media Diver­si­ty Insti­tute (MDI)
75. Media Impact Fun­ders
76. Media Insti­tute of South­ern Africa (MISA)
77. Mediastandard.ro
78. Namib­ia Media Trust (NMT)
79. Nation­al Union of Jour­nal­ists of Ukraine (NUJU)
80. NEO NEWS HD
81. New Nar­ra­tives
82. North­ern Stu­dio
83. One World Media
84. Orga­nized Crime and Cor­rup­tion Report­ing Project (OCCRP)
85. Pak­istan Press Foun­da­tion (PPF)
86. Panos Insti­tute South­ern Africa (PSAf)
87. Paper Trail Media
88. Pub­lic Inter­est Jour­nal­ism Lab
89. Pub­lic Inter­est News Foun­da­tion
90. Pub­lic Media Alliance (PMA)
91. Pulitzer Cen­ter
92. Radio Ambu­lante Stu­dios
93. Radio Bul­lets
94. Report for Amer­i­ca
95. Report for the World
96. Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF)
97. RIA Media Cor­po­ra­tion (Ukraine)
98. Samir Kas­sir Foun­da­tion – SKeyes Cen­ter for Media and Cul­tur­al Free­dom
99. Search­light Devel­op­ment Action – Cameroon
100. Social Weaver
101. South East Europe Media Organ­i­sa­tion (SEEMO)
102. Syr­i­aUn­told
103. Ter­miniTV
104. THE CITY
105. The Fix Media
106. The Front­line Club (The Front­line Club Char­i­ta­ble Trust)
107. The Ukraini­ans Media
108. The VII Foun­da­tion
109. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia
110. Thom­son Foun­da­tion
111. Tran­si­tions
112. Voxeu­rop
113. Will Media
114. Women4europe
115. World Asso­ci­a­tion of News Pub­lish­ers (WAN-IFRA)
116. World Edi­tors Forum
117. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia
118. Union of Jour­nal­ists in Fin­land
119. Zamaneh Media

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Signatories (individuals: speakers, attendees and friends of the International Journalism Festival):

1. Abio­dun Salawu, Pro­fes­sor and Research Direc­tor, Indige­nous Lan­guage Media in Africa, North-West Uni­ver­si­ty, South Africa
2. Ahmad Quraishi, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Afghanistan Jour­nal­ists Cen­ter (AFJC)
3. Alessan­dro Tom­masi, Co-founder and CEO, Will Media
4. Andrii Beli­akov, Web­site Own­er, Jour­nal­ist, Bucha.city
5. Angeli­na Fus­co, Chair Dart Cen­tre Europe
6. Anna Masera, Vice Direc­tor, Gior­nale di Bres­cia
7. Anton­i­na Cherevko, Head of the Inde­pen­dent Media Coun­cil, Ukraine
8. Anya Schiffrin, Senior Lec­tur­er, Colum­bia University’s School of Inter­na­tion­al and Pub­lic Affairs
9. Artem Liss, Fly­ing Fox Media Ltd.
10. Assia Chane­va, Edi­tor, Bul­gar­i­an Nation­al Radio
11. Astrid Maier, Chief Edi­tor, XING
12. Bay­bars Orsek, Direc­tor, Inter­na­tion­al Fact-Check­ing Net­work (IFCN)
13. Benedet­ta Toba­gi, Writer and Researcher
14. Bill Orme, CEO, Emro Asso­ciates
15. Bruce Shapiro, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Dart Cen­ter for Jour­nal­ism and Trau­ma and Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism, Colum­bia Jour­nal­ism School
16. Car­los Eduar­do Huer­tas, Direc­tor, CONNECTAS
17. Car­o­line Nursey OBE, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, BBC Media Action
18. Char­lie Beck­ett, Direc­tor, Polis, LSE
19. Char­lotte Lind­berg, Editor/host, Yle (Finnish broad­cast­ing com­pa­ny)
20. Cher­i­lyn Ire­ton, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, World Edi­tors Forum, WAN-IFRA
21. Court­ney Rad­sch, Tech and media pol­i­cy expert
22. Daniela Pin­heiro, Colum­nist, UOL
23. Dar­rin Zam­mit Lupi, Con­trac­tor Pho­tog­ra­ph­er, Reuters
24. Dmytro Tuzov, host “Radio NV”
25. Elis­a­beth Fon­dren, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism, St. John’s Uni­ver­si­ty New York
26. Erick Tor­ri­co, Coor­di­na­tor of Demo­c­ra­t­ic Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Project, UNIR Bolivia Foun­da­tion
27. Fer­gus Bell, CEO, Fathm
28. Flo­ri­ana Bul­fon, Free­lance Jour­nal­ist
29. Francesca Milano,Chora Media
30. Francesco Fil­ip­pi, His­to­ri­an, Fon­dazione Museo Stori­co del Trenti­no
31. Francesco Zaf­fara­no, Edi­tor-in-chief, Will Media
32. François Nel, Read­er in Media Inno­va­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cen­tral Lan­cashire
33. Gabriela Pre­da, Free­lance Jour­nal­ist
34. Gian-Pao­lo Accar­do, Edi­tor-in-chief, Voxeu­rop
35. Gilles Demp­tos, Direc­tor for Asia-Pacif­ic, Asian Amer­i­can Jour­nal­ists Asso­ci­a­tion (AAJA-Asia)
36. Giu­lia Blasi, Free­lance writer
37. Grazia Li Gre­ci, Con­tent Spe­cial­ist, K‑agency
38. Gyp­sy Guil­lén Kaiser, Advo­ca­cy and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor, Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists (CPJ)
39. Ilie Pin­tea, War Cor­re­spon­dent, Radio Româ­nia Actu­al­ități
40. India Bou­quer­el, Edi­tor-in-chief, Live Mag­a­zine
41. Iry­na Savchenko, Pro­gram man­ag­er region­al, Internews
42. Isabelle Roughol, Founder, Bor­der­line
43. Jakub Parusin­s­ki, Edi­tor, The Fix Media
44. Jere­my Druk­er, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor and Edi­tor in Chief, Tran­si­tions
45. John Crow­ley, Free­lance jour­nal­ist, Inde­pen­dent
46. Jorge Luis Sier­ra, Pres­i­dent, Bor­der Cen­ter for Jour­nal­ists and Blog­gers
47. Joris van Dui­jne, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Zamaneh Media
48. José Luis Benítez, Inde­pen­dent, Inde­pen­dent media and jour­nal­ism researcher
49. Juley­ka Lan­tigua, Founder/CEO, LWC Stu­dios
50. Dr Julie Poset­ti, Glob­al Direc­tor of Research, ICFJ
51. Juli­et Lodge, Women4europe
52. Lars Tallert, Head of Pol­i­cy, Fojo Media Insti­tute
53. Leli Bibi­lashvili, Asso­ciate Dean, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia
54. Kathy Eng­lish, Chair of Board, Cana­di­an Jour­nal­ism Foun­da­tion
55. Kris­t­ian Porter, CEO, Pub­lic Media Alliance (PMA)
56. Luc Stein­berg, Head of oper­a­tions, Media Diver­si­ty Insti­tute (MDI)
57. Mari­na Con­stan­ti­noiu, Project Coor­di­na­tor, EditiaDeDeminieata.ro
58. Mari­na Walk­er Gue­vara, Pulitzer Cen­ter
59. Mary Myers, inde­pen­dent researcher and media con­sul­tant
60. Mae Azan­go, New Nar­ra­tives and Front Page Africa
61. Marce­lo Rech, Jour­nal­ist, Pres­i­dent, Brazil­ian News­pa­per Asso­ci­a­tion (ANJI)
62. Maria Toghi­na, Jour­nal­ist, Radio Roma­nia
63. Mar­ius Dragomir, Direc­tor, Cen­ter for Media, Data & Soci­ety (CMDS)
64. Mat­tia Cur­si, Cam­era­man, Vudio
65. Melanie Bunce, Head of the Jour­nal­ism Depart­ment, City Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don
66. Melanie Walk­er, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Media Devel­op­ment, WAN-IFRA
67. Michele Palmieri, Free­lance Jour­nal­ist
68. Mil­i­ca Pesic, Direc­tor, Media Diver­si­ty Insti­tute (MDI)
69. Mira Milo­se­vic, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Glob­al Forum for Media Devel­op­ment (GFMD)
70. Natalia Antela­va, Edi­tor in Chief, Coda Media
71. Nataliya Gumenyuk, CEO, Pub­lic Inter­est Jour­nal­ism Lab
72. Nataliya Marchuk, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Vasyl Ste­fanyk Pre­carpathi­an Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty, Jour­nal­ism Depart­ment
73. Natia Kaladze, Dean, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia
74. Olaf Steen­fadt, Direc­tor, Jour­nal­ism Trust Ini­tia­tive, Reporters With­out Bor­ders (RSF)
75. Olga Myrovych, Head, Lviv Media Forum
76. Owais Aslam Ali (Pak­istan Press Foun­da­tion)
77. Paul Nemitz, Prin­ci­pal Advi­sor, EU Com­mis­sion
78. Prue Clarke, Direc­tor, New Nar­ra­tives
79. Rasha Abdul­la, Pro­fes­sor of Jour­nal­ism and Mass Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, The Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ty in Cairo
80. Rebec­ca Harms,Vice Chair, ECPMF
81. Remzi Lani, Direc­tor, Alban­ian Media Insti­tute
82. Rob Walk­er, Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­si­ty of East Anglia
83. Roger Casale, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, New Euro­peans Inter­na­tion­al
84. Ser­gio Carin­gi, Direc­tor, Meet­ing with the Inter­na­tion­al Press in Brazil
85. Sil­via Boc­car­di, Jour­nal­ist, Will Media
86. Sophie Brown, Media con­sul­tant, Inde­pen­dent
87. Steve Buck­ley, Com­mu­ni­ty Media Solu­tions (CMS)
88. Taras Prokopy­shyn, CEO and Co-Founder, The Ukraini­ans Media
89. Tom Law, Head of Pol­i­cy and Learn­ing, GFMD
90. Tom Trewin­nard, COO, Fathm
91. Vasyl Ste­fanyk, Pre­carpathi­an Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty, Jour­nal­ism Depart­ment
92. Vic­to­ria Bridges, Direc­tor, One World Media
93. Vic­to­ria Oscars­son, Jour­nal­ist, Yle (Finnish broad­cast­ing com­pa­ny)
94. Vin­cent Peyrègne, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, WAN-IFRA
95. Vir­ginia Stag­ni, Head of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, Finan­cial Times
96. Vusumuzi Sifile, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Panos Insti­tute South­ern Africa
97. Wayne Robins, Adjunct Pro­fes­sor, St. John’s Uni­ver­si­ty
98. Yavuz Bay­dar, Edi­tor-in-Chief, Ahval News
99. Yazan Bad­ran, Vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor, post­doc­tor­al researcher, Vri­je Uni­ver­siteit Brus­sel
100. Zane­ta Tra­jkos­ka, Direc­tor, Insti­tute of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Stud­ies
101. Zakhar Prot­siuk, The Fix Media
102. Zoe Titus, Direc­tor, Namib­ia Media Trust

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