Big ideas: How will Covid-19 trigger a new era of media development?

Photo: Webinar panelists

In this webinar organized by IAMCR's Media Sector Development Working Group in conjunction with the Global Forum for Media Development, for IAMCR 2020, scholars and practioners around the world explore the big ideas for reshaping media development in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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Chair: Guy Berger (UNESCO)

Making the case for visual journalism

(12:27 - 31:23)

Audrey Gadzekpo (University of Ghana)

“Total Journalism”: re-thinking the news industry from top to bottom

(34:00 - 47:20)

Marius Dragomir (Central European University)

Media can’t afford the luxury of lacking a sustainable business model

(47:29 - 1:01:55)

Mij lastrebner (SembraMedia)

Re-engineering the technological media infrastructure in the global south: the case for foreign aid towards a sustainable open and free software platform

(1:02:00 - 1:15:00)

Jairo Lugo-Ocando (Northwestern University in Qatar)

We have to incentivise systemic changes in how journalism support and media development is conceived and funded

(1:15:05 - 1:31:42)

Tom Law (Global Forum for Media Development)