Media
GMF 2016: media, Power, Appeals
Almost 2000 media professionals discussed in Bonn for three days about the role of the media in international developments. The ninth Global Media Forum ends with a clear call to thorough journalism.
Almost 2000 journalists, and 60 events Under the Motto of “media, freedom and values,” discussed at the ninth
Global Media Forum (GMF) media professionals from more than 100 countries. On the last three days of the climate policy, especially in the center.
Christiana Figueres picked up on the final event of the GMF in Bonn no sheet before the mouth: “It is not enough for journalists only have the messages that a Smartphone can.” Their task was it, the events belonging to you and the Connections.
As a former General Secretary of the framework Convention on climate change of the United Nations, Figueres was instrumental in the Success of the UN climate agreement in Paris. Accordingly, 175 States undertake to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases worldwide between 2045 and 2060. “This path must be accompanied,” said Figueres, the journalists present.
Almost 2000 media professionals from 110 countries took part this year
The most powerful common denominator of the people, Figueres, is the interest in peace and stability. That is exactly why you should pay more attention to the climate: “global warming, desertification, food security, escape, and even war – it’s all connected together. Look exactly and you make the connection!”, so your appeal to the media makers.
Also Gesine Schwan, President and co-founder of the Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, warned that the results from Paris for a rest. To seize this opportunity, is not only the responsibility of governments, but also the organised civil society and the private sector, the former candidate to the office of the Federal President.
A Large Variety Of Topics
Beyond the environmental issues, this year’s GMF offered a broad range of topics: from the Power of the economy, the digital revolution, equality of the sexes up to the crisis of the world. “For me, the discussions around the democratisation in the Arab world have been an asset”, says the Tunisian Mouna Trabelsi their Highlights as a visitor to the GMFs. “I listened to the panel on Migration and on the role of the media,” said Gemechu Bekele Lemu from Ethiopia. In East Africa the issue of refugees is very relevant: the dictatorship in Eritrea, the civil wars in Somalia and Congo, as well as the conflicts between South Sudan and Sudan have driven millions of people to flee. “For us, but it is not easy to identify the real problems,” complains Lemu. “So, we meet often a nerve in the policy, and is required in not always.”
Mouna Trabelsi from Tunisia
As in previous years, the freedom of the press and the right to freedom of expression. The vielerort is not a matter of course, – said Thomas Silberhorn, parliamentary state Secretary in the German development Ministry: “Six out of seven people live in countries without free media. This is an alarming obstacle to global development.” Without diversity of opinion, important ideas and perspectives were lost, for a sustainable development of great significance.
Awards for media professionals
Personalities, the fight against resistance for freedom of expression, the Deutsche Welle in the context of the GMF with the
Freedom of Speech Award. This year’s winner Sedat Hurriyet Ergin, editor-in-chief of the Turkish newspaper, said that he had ambivalent feelings about the award: “Because it characterizes a Person, you highlight at the same time, the precarious state of the freedom of the press.”
With the
Bobs Awards honors the Deutsche Welle particularly bold and creative Online journalists. So the price went up in the area of citizen journalism to the bloggers Nastiker Dharmakata from Bangladesh, where in the last few months, several of his colleagues, in part with a brutish – were murdered. With a documentary he is making on the life-threatening Situation of dissidents in his country.
The satirist Bassem Youssef at the awards ceremony for the Bobs Awards
Criticism of European media, the former TV host and satirist Bassem Youssef practiced: The governments should keep their values high and the cooperation with non-democratic governments to rethink that. “The support of Europe is also a reason why many dictators remain in Power,” said Youssef on Tuesday evening. The local media, says Youssef, it would not address sufficiently.
DW Director General Peter Limbourg to handle the critique at the closing event of the GMF: Europe does not think sometimes of the own values, acknowledged Limbourg: “We pollute the environment and cooperate with corrupt regimes. But this is not to put our values in question, but a reminder, not only to preach, but implement it as well.”
The focus of the upcoming tenth GMF is not fixed yet. According to the GMF Director Patrick Leusch, it is possible that there is a completely new conference concept is tried.