Putting Journalism to Rights

Unions’ Role in a New Media Landscape

EFJ Annual Meeting

Bled, 7-9 April 2006

Agenda

Friday, April 7

9.30 Registration

10.00 Start of the meeting

Welcome and Introduction:

Arne König, Chair, European Federation of Journalists

Iztok Jurancic, Slovenian Union of Journalists

10.15 Panel 1. Campaigning For Quality Journalism in the Corporate Future

Key note speech

Danny Schechter, MediaChannel, US

Panel

Ulrike Maerks-Franzen, General Secretary, D.J.U. Ver.di (Germany)

Granville Williams, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (UK)

Olivier Da Lage, SNJ – Member organisation of Observatoire Français des

Médias (France)

Chair: Aidan White, General Secretary

Discussion

12.30 Departure to castle Brdo for Lunch

14.30 Panel 2. Media Policy: Media Concentration,

Revision of Television without Frontiers Directive

Henri Weber, Member of the European Parliament

Brankica Petkovic, Peace Institute – Slovenian Referendum campaign

Dusan Reljic, EU-MAP Report on Television across Europe

Chair: Philippe Leruth, Vice-Chair, Steering Committee

Discussion

16.00 Coffee

16.30 Working Groups

I – Organising in multinationals (FES / Labour Rights Expert Group)

Chair: Michael Klehm, SC member

II – Identifying a European Campaign Today - TWF

Chair: Barry White, SC member

17.30 Final Plenary – Written reports to be submitted for next day

18.00 End of First Day

Saturday, April 8

09.30 Formalities:

Voting Rights

Approval of Agenda

Motions Committee

10.00 Unions’ Role in a New Media Landscape

Key Note Speakers:

Patricia Grillo, Head of Press and Communications, ETUC

Frank Wernecke, Deputy General Secretary, Ver.di, Germany

Chair: Ann-Magrit Austenå, Member of EFJ Steering Committee

Discussion

11.00 Coffee

11.30 EFJ Report of the Chair

Discussion

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Special Report: Gender Politics and the Media

a) Portraying politics: A toolkit on Gender and Television

Speaker: Bettina Peters, European Journalism Centre

b) Gender and Journalists’ Unions: An EFJ Survey

Speaker: Annegret Witt-Bartel, DJV

Chair: Androula Georgiadou, Steering Committee

Discussion

16.00 Coffee

16.30 Finances

Report of Honorary Treasurer

Presentation of Budget 2006

Report of Finance Commission

Chair: Heljä Korpijoki, Steering Committee

17.30 End of the Day

Sunday, April 9

9.00 Motions

10.30 Coffee Break

10.45 Motions (Continued)

13.30 Close of meeting followed by a lunch