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Tue, 10/13/2009 - 16:11
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WORLD MEDIA LEADERS GATHER IN BEIJING
Beijing, Oct 13 (ANTARA) - After being successful in holding the Olympic Games in 2008, China is back with another spectacular activity by bringing together 135 media tycoons from 70 countries around the world in Beijing to attend the World Media Summit (WMS) on
October 8-10, 2009.
China's President Hu Jin Tao at his opening speech in the WMS last Friday urged all media leaders to unite for peaceful purposes, help other countries to recover from global economic crisis, try to anticipate climate change and global warming while tackling terrorism issues by making objective and responsible news stories to the world.
"The media has a big share in making a political agenda and influencing public opinion," said Hu in front of media CEOs.
Some famous leaders attending the event were the owner of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, Thomson-Reuters' boss David Schlesinger and President of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf, concurrently president director of Indonesia's news agency, ANTARA.
WMS itself was hosted by Chinese News Agency Xinhua where the President Director, Li Congjun, called the event as Olympic gathering for the media.
"An executive from television network CNN said that WMS resembles the Olympic games. I agree with the opinion," said Li.
To the WMS event, Xinhua invited media bosses from 62 news agencies, 29 newspapers and magazines, 30 radio stations and television networks and representatives from other media group namely Jawa Pos and Kompas Gramedia.
Li explained the idea to hold media gathering in Beijing came to his mind a year ago during the Olympic Games event. At that time, Li said, he met press icon and media owners who agreed to hold WMS with the purpose to discuss ways of integrating traditional media with the modern one whose basis is multimedia format.
Among topics discussed in the WMS were media responses towards financial crisis, challenges and opportunities in the era of digital and multimedia, the impact of technology to the development of media, changes in working phase on editor's desk, and the appearance of super journalists who produce not only textual stories but also those in the forms of pictures, audio and video format.
Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch on his speech in the WMS said the world had their eyes on Beijing during the Olympic Games last year and the world is once again eyeing China's capital during the WMS event.
"Digital revolution has turned media industry upside down. Digital is no longer an objective but a tool to enhance the distribution of information to serve people's right to know," Murdoch added while praising China's open policy in nowadays digital era.
The Associated Press (AP) CEO, Thomas Curley, stated the media must look for a new market by using rapid development in the internet world. Social networks such as Wikipedia, Facebook and You Tube, he said, can be made as partners to spread information to a wider society.
The development of information technology, he said, has become a business opportunity just like AP which recently signed a deal with
Yahoo to fill its content.
As a news agency, Curley said, AP must adapt to the new world of digital era as well as maintain its core business as a content provider.
Thomson-Reuters' Chief Editor, David Schlesinger, said media needed to encourage transparency on the financial market. China's media, for example, needed to boost the country's financial market to a more open format because rumors can influence the price in the stock exchange. ***3***
October 8-10, 2009.
China's President Hu Jin Tao at his opening speech in the WMS last Friday urged all media leaders to unite for peaceful purposes, help other countries to recover from global economic crisis, try to anticipate climate change and global warming while tackling terrorism issues by making objective and responsible news stories to the world.
"The media has a big share in making a political agenda and influencing public opinion," said Hu in front of media CEOs.
Some famous leaders attending the event were the owner of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, Thomson-Reuters' boss David Schlesinger and President of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf, concurrently president director of Indonesia's news agency, ANTARA.
WMS itself was hosted by Chinese News Agency Xinhua where the President Director, Li Congjun, called the event as Olympic gathering for the media.
"An executive from television network CNN said that WMS resembles the Olympic games. I agree with the opinion," said Li.
To the WMS event, Xinhua invited media bosses from 62 news agencies, 29 newspapers and magazines, 30 radio stations and television networks and representatives from other media group namely Jawa Pos and Kompas Gramedia.
Li explained the idea to hold media gathering in Beijing came to his mind a year ago during the Olympic Games event. At that time, Li said, he met press icon and media owners who agreed to hold WMS with the purpose to discuss ways of integrating traditional media with the modern one whose basis is multimedia format.
Among topics discussed in the WMS were media responses towards financial crisis, challenges and opportunities in the era of digital and multimedia, the impact of technology to the development of media, changes in working phase on editor's desk, and the appearance of super journalists who produce not only textual stories but also those in the forms of pictures, audio and video format.
Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch on his speech in the WMS said the world had their eyes on Beijing during the Olympic Games last year and the world is once again eyeing China's capital during the WMS event.
"Digital revolution has turned media industry upside down. Digital is no longer an objective but a tool to enhance the distribution of information to serve people's right to know," Murdoch added while praising China's open policy in nowadays digital era.
The Associated Press (AP) CEO, Thomas Curley, stated the media must look for a new market by using rapid development in the internet world. Social networks such as Wikipedia, Facebook and You Tube, he said, can be made as partners to spread information to a wider society.
The development of information technology, he said, has become a business opportunity just like AP which recently signed a deal with
Yahoo to fill its content.
As a news agency, Curley said, AP must adapt to the new world of digital era as well as maintain its core business as a content provider.
Thomson-Reuters' Chief Editor, David Schlesinger, said media needed to encourage transparency on the financial market. China's media, for example, needed to boost the country's financial market to a more open format because rumors can influence the price in the stock exchange. ***3***
