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Date(s):
October 11, 2012
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Time: 8:00 AM EST - 9:30 AM EST
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Location:
McCormick & Schmick's
1652 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
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Organization: WIFV
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Contact Name: Melissa Houghton
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Contact Phone: 202-429-9438
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Contact Email: director@wifv.org
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Just weeks ahead of the 2012 presidential election, join us for breakfast with industry insiders and representatives of foreign-owned news operations with bureaus in DC. Many, including China Central TV, Deutsche Welle and Al Jazeera, produce English language programming. Learn how these broadcasters are covering the American election and bring your questions to the breakfast. Want to know who is their target audience? How tough is it to get access to news makers? And, who is producing, shooting and editing at these fast growing broadcast operations in our town? Attend the breakfast and ask them directly.
$15 WIFV Executive and Corporate Members
$25 WIFV Professional and Student Members
$35 Public
Confirmed Speakers
Laura Anderson is the DC broadcast center Unit Manager for Programs for Al Jazeera English. Anderson’s work spans investigative documentary series, a social media daily talk show and discussion program. Al Jazeera is a growing network and Anderson has produced and edited the network programming production guidelines and is helping with the network programming staffing study.
Rosiland Jordan is the State and Defense Correspondent for Al Jazeera English Television in Washington. Her focus is on US foreign and national security policy, and on the impacts these policies have on the peoples of other nations. Previously, Jordan covered the 2008 presidential campaign and the first two years of the administration of President Barack Obama, again with a focus on US foreign policy and economics.
Claudia Milne is the editor of the US edition of the BBC’s international-facing online news site and commissions and manages output across the edition, including video special features like: Altered States, a video series examining how shifting demographics and economics affect Americans, and investigations including: America’s Child Death Shame and Trafficked. In 2004, she produced the BBC’s US television election coverage for the BBC flagship news and current affairs TV strand Newsnight.
Jim Laurie heads the video production and television consulting company Focus Asia Productions Hong Kong Ltd. As a consultant, he has provided services for China Central Television (CCTV English News) in Beijing and Washington, the Al Jazeera English News Channel Asia operations in Kuala Lumpur, the Times Now channel in Mumbai, and the Aaj Tak Channel in Delhi. In the past, Laurie roamed the world as an international radio and television correspondent first for NBC News and then ABC News.
Miodrag Soric is the Bureau Chief of Germany’s International Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle in Washington DC. In addition to his work with Deutsche Welle, Soric is founder and manager of German-Russian and German-Turkish reporter exchange programs and served on the board of directors for “Reporters without Borders” from 2003-2009.
Frederick Thomas is the founder and CEO of MHz Networks, an independent, public media organization which promotes world perspective and understanding through all forms of electronic communication. Through MHz Worldview, the Network’s national television channel, Americans can access a wide range of international news, dramas, documentaries, sports and films – all in English. MHz Networks works networks including France 24, Al Jazeera English, Deutsche Welle, RT, SABC, ANI and RAI, among others.
Up for discussion
Learn how these broadcasters are covering the American election and bring your questions to the breakfast. Want to know who is their target audience? How tough is it to get access to news makers? And, who is producing, shooting and editing at these fast growing broadcast operations in our town? Attend the breakfast and ask them directly.
Check out the programming coming out of the bureaus our guests represent
Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/
China Central TV/CCTV http://english.cntv.cn/01/index.shtml
Deutsche Welle http://mediacenter.dw.de/english/
MHz Networks http://www.mhznetworks.org/programs/news
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