Webinar: Photojournalism in the digital age / 25–26 October

Agenda:

Day 1: Mon­day 25 Octo­ber 2021, 13:00 – 15:15 (CET)

13:00 – 13:15: Intro­duc­tion 

Radomir Krack­ovic, Vice-Pres­i­dent of Jour­nal­ists’ Union of Mon­tene­gro (TUMM)
Renate Schroed­er, EFJ Direc­tor

13:15 – 14:15: A pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words?

Com­pelling pho­tographs are cen­tral to good sto­ry-telling. This pan­el will explore the role of pho­to­jour­nal­ists in the dig­i­tal age and the chal­lenges they face – ethics, diver­si­ty, pic­ture manipulation/editing and mak­ing their work paid in a com­pet­i­tive mar­ket flood­ed with user-gen­er­at­ed images. 

Keynote: Emilio More­nat­ti, Pulitzer Prize pho­to­jour­nal­ist, Asso­ci­at­ed Press (TBC)

Lars Boer­ing,  Direc­tor of Euro­pean Jour­nal­ism Cen­tre (EJC)
Axelle de Russé, French pho­to­jour­nal­ist

14:15 – 14:50: Deep-dive: Lars Boer­ing on busi­ness mod­els and NN on diver­si­ty

14:50 – 15:15: Report­ing from break-out sec­tions and Wrap­ping up

Day 2 – Tues­day 26 Octo­ber 2021, 13:00 – 15:15 (CET)

13:00 – 13:05: Recap & intro­duc­tion 

Yuk Lan Wong, EFJ pol­i­cy and project offi­cer

13:05 – 14:05: Pho­to­jour­nal­ists at risk

Pho­to­jour­nal­ists reg­u­lar­ly put them­selves at risk because of their jobs. They are eas­i­ly iden­ti­fied, they car­ry heavy, often expen­sive equip­ment, and by neces­si­ty need to be close to the action, all mak­ing them par­tic­u­lar­ly vul­ner­a­ble. Legal restric­tions such as secu­ri­ty law, data pro­tec­tion law also pre­vent them from doing their jobs. What can be done to migrate these risks and lim­i­ta­tions?

Markus Pen­tikäi­nen, pho­to­jour­nal­ist, Fin­land
Sitara Thalia Ambro­sio, free­lance pho­to­jour­nal­ist, Ger­many
Boris Pejovic, pho­to­jour­nal­ist and board mem­ber of TUMM, Mon­tene­gro
Michael Tram­mer, free­lance jour­nal­ist, Ger­many

Mod­er­a­tor: Odd­run Midt­bø, free­lance jour­nal­ist, Nor­way

14: 05 – 15:05: Union cam­paigns to pro­mote pho­to­jour­nal­ism and pho­to­jour­nal­ists

Milen van Boldrik, NVJ, The Nether­lands
Natasha Hirst, NUJ Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Coun­cil, UK

Facil­i­ta­tor: Yan­nis Kot­si­fos, ESIEMTH

15:05 – 15:15: Con­clu­sion and end­ing

This activ­i­ty is part of a two-year project “Trust in Jour­nal­ism” launched by the EFJ and is co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion (DG EMPL).