SLPI and Global Media Ethics Forum organise 5th global forum

The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) in partnership with the Global Media Ethics Forum, is organising the 5th global forum titled, ‘Media Ethics in the Age of Globalisation’ on January 27 and 28, at Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo.

The Forum will comprise media practitioners and scholars from Africa, Australia, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, UK and USA, an SLPI press release said.

The Global Media Ethics Forum is a series of roundtable meetings with journalists and scholars in various locations worldwide. The Forum is formulating media ethics in the wake of rapid technological change and globalisation. The Forum last met in China in 2014 and in India in 2011.

Among the eminent personalities who will attend and present papers on varied topics are:

*Chair of the Department of Communications, State University of New York, USA, Prof Shakuntala Rao who will present a paper on ‘Global Media Ethics and Ethics within local and regional contexts,’ * Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Media Studies and Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois, USA, Clifford G. Christians,who will speak on ‘Global media ethics and ethics within local and regional contexts,’

*Former Senior Editor of Hindustan Times, Vipul Mudgal who will speak on, ‘Citizens journalism and Ethics of Social Media,’

*Director of Development, Thomson Foundation, Bettina Peters who will present a paper on ‘Citizen Journalism and Ethics of Social Media,’

*Editor of The Express Tribune, a Pakistani English daily affiliated with the International New York Times, Kamal Siddiqi who will speak on ‘The Ethics of contentious cartoons and Freedom of Expression,’

*Former Secretary General of Parliament and presently Chairman of the Dispute Resolution Council (DRC) of the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) Nihal Seneviratne who will discuss ‘Covering elections ethically,’

*Adviser for Asia, International Media Support (IMS), Dr. Ranga Kalansooriya who will present a paper on ‘Media Ethics in Emerging Democracies,’

*Attorney-at-Law and member of the DRC, Ahmad Javid Yusuf who will highlight the importance of ‘The Role of the Media in Conflict Resolution.’