Media4Europe Summit: towards a healthy European news media sector?

After a detailed presentation of the Stars4Media Second Edition, there will be a high-level Policy debate: “Towards a healthy European News Media sector?”.

Panellists are:
    Věra Jourová, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency
    Fernando de Yarza López-Madrazo, President of WAN-IFRA
    Mogens Bjerregård, President of the European Federation of Journalists
    Lucia Recalde Langarica, Head of Unit Audiovisual Industry and Media Support Programmes, DG CONNECT, European Commission
    MEP Margarida Marques (S&D, MFF Rapporteur)
    Helga Trüpel, former MEP (Greens)
    José Manuel Sanz Mingote, Director, EFE news agency
    Miguel Castro, Global Media Partnerships, Gates Foundation
The debate will address these key issues such as  The Media Action Plan, in particular, the “NEWS bundle” initiative and the “European News Media Forum”, and the EU’s Democracy Action Plan, the digital and technological transformation of the media sector, and solutions to accompany news media’s capacity to innovate through training programmes, Creative Europe and EU funding supporting news media’s recovery and opportunities for cooperation between national media at European level, around a content sharing European platform.

More info here .

This content is part of the Media Freedom Rapid Response  (MFRR), a Europe-wide mechanism which tracks, monitors and responds to violations of press and media freedom in EU Member States and Candidate Countries. The project is co-funded by the European Commission.