TLN 2nd Annual Conference on Freedom of the Media

National Press Club, Wednesday, November 8, 2023

 

9:40 a.m.
Welcome

Sasha Toperich
Executive Vice President, Transatlantic Leadership Network

 

9:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
The Challenges to Free Media in the Digital Age

Matthew Tostevin
Global Standards Editor, Newsweek

 

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
“Dangers of Wartime Reporting”

Panelists:

Berislav Jelinić
Editor-in-Chief, Nacional, (Croatia)

David Patrikarakos
Author, Journalist, and War Correspondent, (UK)

Ivica Puljić
Head of Al Jazeera Balkans, Washington, D.C.

Moderator:

John Craig
TLN Senior Fellow

 

11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Coffee Break

 

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Generative AI and the Future of Journalism

Panelists:

Matthew Tostevin
Global Standards Editor, Newsweek 

Laura Hazard Owen
Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab / Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

Clayton Weimers
Executive Director, US Bureau, Reporters Without Borders

Dušan Žarković
Partner, Vreme Weekly, Co-founder and Executive Director, Institute for Politics and Economy of Southeast Europe

Moderator:

Shawn Waterman
Cyber Reporter, Newsweek and TLN Media Fellow

 

12:30 p.m. – 13:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

 

13:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Responsible Journalism In The Age of Distorted and Fake News

Panelists:

Abderrahim Foukara
Chief, Washington, D.C. Bureau, Al Jazeera Network

Steve Herman
Chief National Correspondent, Voice of America

Kerry Picket
Senior Congressional Reporter, The Washington Times

Dustin Siggins

Founder, Proven Media Solutions 

Moderator:

Peter Roff
Contributed Editor and Columnist, Newsweek and TLN Media Fellow

 

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Coffee Break

 

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Challenges, Hurdles, and Opportunities to Investigative Reporting

Panelists:

Paul Beckett
Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
Climate Collaborations Editor, The Associated Press, Samoa

Robert F. Worth
Contributing Journalist, The New York Times Magazine

Moderator:

Joel Starr
Senior Advisor at USIP and TLN Senior Fellow

6:00 p.m.
TLN 3rd Annual Freedom of the Media Award Ceremony

Master of Ceremonies:

Sasha Toperich
Executive Vice President, Transatlantic Leadership Network

Welcome:

Daniel Hamilton
President, Transatlantic Leadership Network

Eileen O’Reilly
President, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

Introductions:

Paul Beckett
Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

Debra Cagan
Distinguished Fellow, Transatlantic Leadership Network

John Craig
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Leadership Network

Joel Starr
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Leadership Network

Matthew Tostevin
Global Standards Editor, Newsweek

6:30 p.m.
Reception

TLN’s 2023 Freedom of the Media Awardees

The TLN Gold Medal for Public Service is awarded to Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine, for his outstanding working promoting human rights during ongoing upheavals in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.

The TLN Gold Medal for Investigative Reporting is awarded to David Patrikarakos, UnHerd, for his outstanding contribution in coverage of war in Ukraine and successful navigation of complexities of the conflict trench warfare to social media, to use of DIY weaponry created by Ukrainian soldiers, illuminating every facet of a hybrid conflict.

The TLN Freedom of the Media Award for excellence in Explanatory Reporting is awarded to Nacional Weekly & Berislav Jelinić, for two decades of extraordinary journalism leading Croatia’s checks-and-balance reporting and maintaining high standards of journalism in post-socialist, transitional area, to full-fledged democracy.

The TLN Freedom of the Media Award for excellence in International Reporting is awarded to Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Newsweek, for her work over the past year exposing the overt and covert strategies and tactics used by the People’s Republic of China in its contest with the United States and other democracies, highlighting the way the PRC has weaponized democracy’s weaknesses.

The TLN Freedom of the Media Award for excellence in Commentary and Criticism is awarded to Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Associated Press – Samoa, for her outstanding work in advocating for the rights of minority journalists around the world and for developing a climate journalism training program for global south journalists, building partnerships on climate journalism with newsrooms globally.

The TLN Freedom of the Media Award for excellence in Next Generation Journalism Reporting is awarded to Evan Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal, for his bravery and commitment to responsible journalism for which he is unjustifiably arrested in Moscow during his reporting on Russia’s aggression on Ukraine.