The British Embassy Budapest

cordially invites you to the -

Media Futures – A Central European Perspective

conference, moderated by Professor Richard Sambrook,

Director of Cardiff University’s Centre for Journalism

Programme -

13.30 Registration

14.00 Opening remarks:

HMA Mr Iain Lindsay OBE

Richard Sambrook

14.15 Session 1: Building trust in the media and countering disinformation

Panel:

Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for International Communication

Péter Krekó, Director of Political Capital

Ákos Gergely Balogh, Founder of Reakció Publishing

János Tamás Papp, Researcher at Institute for Media Studies, National Media and Infocommunications Authority

Igor Janke, Partner at R4S Polish Consultancy and President of Freedom Institute, Poland

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Session 2: Media Sustainability

Panel:

Ágnes Urbán, Associate professor and chair of the Infocommunications Department at the Corvinus University of Budapest

Bánk Levente Boros, Director of Médianéző Központ

András Stumpf, Founding Member and Journalist of valaszonline.hu

Ioana Avadani, Chair of Center for Independent Journalism, Romania

Kinga Incze, Founder and CEO of White Report

17.15 Conference ends

Language: English with simultaneous Hungarian interpretation

Please note that the panel discussions will be live streamed on the British Embassy Budapest’s Facebook page.

Please, confirm your attendance by 25 November.