IPI World Congress 2018: Full Schedule

The International Press Institute (IPI) held its 2018 annual World Congress in Abuja, Nigeria from 21-23 June 2018. Under the theme “Why Good Journalism Matters”, the World Congress affirmed the indispensable role of quality media in building strong societies, showcasing investigative stories and projects that bring positive change to individuals and communities in Africa and around the world.

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IPI is a Vienna-based global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists. We are dedicated to furthering and safeguarding press freedom, protecting freedom of opinion and expression, promoting the free flow of news and information, and improving the practices of journalism.

09:30 WAT

IPI Executive Board Meeting

For IPI Executive Board Members only

Thursday June 21, 2018 09:30 - 15:00 WAT
Daily Trust, Abuja

For IPI Members only

09:30 WAT

Workshop: Covering Elections

Limited Capacity filling up

In cooperation with:
* International Media Support (IMS)
* UNESCO Regional office, Abuja
* Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

This intensive one-day workshop aims to strengthen skills and insights for reporting on all aspects of elections, with a particular focus on Nigeria’s upcoming elections.

Registration for the workshop is closed.

Speakers

Ifeanyichukw Agoha

Deputy Director, Electoral Training and Coordinator, INEC Electoral Risk Management (ERM) Unit, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

Works with the Electoral Institute, INEC, Nigeria and presently a Deputy Director, Electoral Training and Coordinator, INEC Electoral Risk Management (ERM) Unit.He ha BA and MA degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, (ABU) Nigeria... Read More →

Kwame Karikari

Former Executive Director, Media Foundation For West Africa (MFWA)

Professor Kwame Karikari is the former Executive Director of the MFWA. He has been for several years, a professor in journalism and mass communication at the School of Communication Studies at the University of Ghana. He has also been involved in training journalists in several... Read More →

Thursday June 21, 2018 09:30 - 16:00 WAT
UNESCO Regional Office, Abuja

Workshops

11:00 WAT

Registration

Pick up your registration packet!
Badges are required for admission to all the sessions and evening events.

Thursday June 21, 2018 11:00 - 15:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

12:00 WAT

Workshop: Online Safety for Journalists (presented by Facebook)

Limited Capacity filling up

Half day workshop presented by Facebook.
* How can you make sure your Facebook account and information posted on the platform are secure?
* How can you stay safe online and protect your sources and contacts?

Workshop includes a presentation on Facebook's response to the challenge of ensuring the integrity of elections.

NOTE: Registration is closed now. Workshop is fully booked.

Speakers

Akua Gyekye

Public Policy Manager, Anglophone West Africa, Facebook

Akua Gyekye is Facebook’s Public Policy Manager for Anglophone West Africa, where she leads on engaging with government, civil society and other policy influencers on issues relating privacy, online safety and security, freedom of expression, the impact of the Internet on economic... Read More →

Thursday June 21, 2018 12:00 - 15:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Kano Room, Mezzanine level

Workshops

16:00 WAT

Opening Ceremony

Speakers

Muhammadu Buhari

President, Federal Republic of Nigeria

Muhammadu Buhari has been president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria since May 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and he previously ruled Nigeria from January 1984 until August 1985, taking charge after a military... Read More →

Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture

Lai Mohammed is the current Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture. A lawyer, businessman and former National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), he received law degrees from the University of Lagos and the Nigerian Law School, respectively. In 1989... Read More →

Nduka Obaigbena

President, Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria (NPAN)

Dawn Thomas

Chief Executive Officer, One Caribbean Media

Dawn Thomas is the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of One Caribbean Media Ltd. (OCM) since 2011. Prior to her present appointment she served for four years as the CEO of Caribbean Communications Network Limited (CCN), a subsidiary of the OCM Group. OCM is the largest and most... Read More →

Barbara Trionfi

Executive Director, Austria, International Press Institute (IPI)

Barbara is executive director at the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists dedicated to safeguarding and fostering media freedom and promoting quality, independent journalism.Barbara joined IPI in 2000... Read More →

John Yearwood

President, Yearwood Media Group

John Yearwood is President and CEO of Yearwood Media Group, a global consulting and conference moderating firm. He is the former World Editor of the Miami Herald and former host of the Herald’s World Desk, which focuses on global issues and newsmakers. Yearwood’s department won... Read More →

Thursday June 21, 2018 16:00 - 17:30 WAT
Presidential Villa

Plenary session

17:30 WAT

Conversation with the Government of Nigeria

John Momoh will moderate a conversation with four government ministers.

Speakers

John Momoh

Chairman/CEO, Channels Media Group

John Momoh is the chairman of the Channels Media Group and chairman and CEO of Channels Television. He is a renowned broadcast journalist with a vast experience spanning almost four decades before founding Channels, John worked variously as a news anchor, senior reporter and senior producer for broadcasters National Radio and Nigerian Television Authority. In 23 years, he has... Read More →

Thursday June 21, 2018 17:30 - 18:30 WAT
Presidential Villa

Plenary session

19:00 WAT

Welcome Cocktail Reception

Reception hosted by the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Speakers

Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello

Minister, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA)

Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello was born in 1959 in Adamawa state. He is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, where he obtained a B.Sc. in Management with a major in Banking and Finance in 1980 as well as an MBA in the same field.As an expert in banking, industry, business... Read More →

Ismaila Isa

Publisher, CEO, New Africa Holdings Ltd., The Democrat

Thursday June 21, 2018 19:00 - 21:00 WAT
Presidential Villa

Networking & Social Event

08:30 WAT

Registration

Pick up your registration packet!
Badges are required for admission to all the sessions and evening events.

Friday June 22, 2018 08:30 - 10:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

10:00 WAT

Welcome Remarks

Speakers

Scott Griffen

Deputy Director, International Press Institute (IPI)

Scott Griffen is deputy director at the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and journalists defending press freedom since 1950. He is the author of numerous IPI reports on diverse topics related to press freedom and independent journalism and... Read More →

Gwen Lister

Executive Chairperson, Namibia Media Trust

Gwen Lister is a journalist, columnist and press freedom activist. She founded The Namibian in 1985 at the height of colonial rule, making her the first woman newspaper editor in southern Africa. The newspaper was constantly the target of right-wingers because it exposed apartheid... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 10:00 - 10:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Plenary session

10:30 WAT

Coffee Break

Friday June 22, 2018 10:30 - 11:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

11:00 WAT

Town Hall Meeting: Why Good Journalism Matters (And How to Make People Like It)

Editors and publishers of some of the world’s leading news outlets will discuss with participants their visions for the future of quality journalism in a town-hall-style debate.

Moderators

Kadaria Ahmed

Executive Director, Daria Media Nigeria Ltd

Kadaria Ahmed is a media entrepreneur and journalist. She is the founder of Daria Media Ltd, a company that is bridging the gap that exists in Nigeria for journalism that is primarily driven by public good. She started her career at the BBC, where she was a senior producer workin... Read More →

Speakers

John Daniszewski

Vice President and Editor at Large, The Associated Press, USA

John Daniszewski became AP’s vice president for standards and editor at large in July 2016 after more than 10 years as AP’s international editor. Before that, he had spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent for the AP and The Los Angeles Times, covering many of the major international... Read More →

Glenda Gloria

Managing Editor and Co-Founder, Rappler

Glenda took up journalism during the Marcos years. Revolutions and transitions have shaped her career and temperament as a journalist. She has worked for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Manila Times, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and for international news... Read More →

David Jordan

Director, BBC Editorial Policy & Standards, BBC

David Jordan became the BBC’s Director of Editorial Policy & Standards in October 2007. Prior to that, he had been Controller of Editorial Policy since December 2005 and the BBC’s Chief Adviser, Politics for the two previous years. He began his career in television journalism... Read More →

Khadija Patel

Editor-in-Chief, Mail & Guardian

Khadija Patel pushes words on street corners. She is the editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian and a co-founder of the The Daily Vox. As a journalist she has produced work for Sky News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Quartz, City Press and the Daily Maverick, among others. She is also... Read More →

Mostefa Souag

Acting Director General, Al-Jazeera Media Network

Dr. Mostefa Souag is acting director general of Al Jazeera Media Network. Prior to this he held various positions within the network, including as managing director of Al Jazeera Arabic, director of news, and advisor to His Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al-Thani, chairman of... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 11:00 - 12:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Plenary session

12:30 WAT

Lunch

Friday June 22, 2018 12:30 - 13:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Networking & Social Event

13:30 WAT

Africa Media Forum : Political Transitions and Democratic Change in Africa - New Spaces for Media Freedom

The departure of long-time rulers in Angola, The Gambia and Zimbabwe. A peaceful change of government in Liberia. A tightly contested presidential vote in Kenya. Are recent political changes in Africa a sign of a broader democratization? Will media freedom find new spaces to prosper?

Moderators

Scott Griffen

Deputy Director, International Press Institute (IPI)

Speakers

Mark Doyle

Freelance Journalist/Consultant, Former BBC Africa Correspondent

Mark Doyle is currently a freelance journalist/ consultant following an award-winning career as a BBC Correspondent and Editor, mostly in Africa. Important stories he covered for the BBC include the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and the wars that spread from Liberia across West Africa... Read More →

Gwen Lister

Executive Chairperson, Namibia Media Trust

Tom Mshindi

Editor-in-Chief, Nation Media Group PLC

Tom Mshindi is a graduate of the University of Nairobi School of Journalism and has an AMP certificate from Strathmore Business School and another from IESE, New York. He worked for the Nation Media Group as a journalist, rising to the position of managing editor of the Daily Nation... Read More →

Khadija Sharife

Africa Editor, OCCRP South Africa

This is a brief bio.

Friday June 22, 2018 13:30 - 14:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Africa Media Forum

14:30 WAT

Covering Elections, Advancing Democracy

Endorsing the Nigerian Media Code of Election Coverage.

Speakers

Lanre Arogundade

Director, International Press Centre (IPC)

Lanre Arogundade, a media development specialist, is the Director of International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos-Nigeria.IPC builds media capacities to strengthen democracy and development while it promotes freedom of expression, press freedom, access to information, and safety of journalists... Read More →

Mahmood Yakubu

Chairman, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

Friday June 22, 2018 14:30 - 15:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

15:00 WAT

Africa Media Forum: Africa’s Looking to the Future. So Is Its Journalism.

African entrepreneurship is driving media innovation across the continent in response to technological, social and political change. Learn from media leaders about success stories and new models for the African journalism of the future.

Moderators

Salim Amin

Chairman, Camerapix

Camerapix, launched from a small shop in Dar es Salaam in 1963 by Amin’s late father, the renowned photojournalist Mohamed “Mo” Amin, has grown into a modern media company with headquarters in Nairobi. Camerapix offers its clients a wide array of media services, including television... Read More →

Speakers

Juliet Ehimuan

Country Director, Google

Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor named by Forbes as one of the top 20 youngest power women in Africa, is Country Director of Google leading Google’s strategy and next billion users initiative in Africa.Under her leadership, the Google team has made significant impact on local content development... Read More →

John Momoh

Chairman/CEO, Channels Media Group

Friday June 22, 2018 15:00 - 15:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Africa Media Forum

15:30 WAT

Reporting Africa - Shaping a New Africa Narrative (Presentation)

African Media Initiative (AMI) presents a research "Reporting Africa"
Media coverage of Africa in both international and African media and AMI initiative to build a strategy on shaping an Africa narrative.

Speakers

Roukaya Kasenally

CEO, African Media Initiative

As of January 1, 2018, Roukaya Kasenally is the CEO of the African Media Initiative (AMI). She held prior positions at AMI as the director of programmes and knowledge management (2012 to 2014) and senior advisor (2015 to 2017). Kasenally is also a democracy scholar and a senior lecturer... Read More →

Reporting Africa Report 2018 pdf

Friday June 22, 2018 15:30 - 15:45 WAT
Hilton Hotel

15:45 WAT

Covering Development: a Guide for African Journalists (Presentation)

Presentation of the European Journalism Centre's guide for African journalists covering development issues with an African perspective on how to create direct linkages between consumers of information and development projects.
Copies of the guide available during the presentation.

Speakers

Lisa Essex

Media Development Advisor and Trainer, European Journalism Centre

Lisa is an international journalism trainer, editor, and writer who works extensively in the developing world. She is the author of several handbooks for the European Journalism Centre, on issues such as covering LGBTQI+ communities, development, and how NGOs work with media organizations... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 15:45 - 16:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

16:00 WAT

Coffee Break

Friday June 22, 2018 16:00 - 16:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

16:30 WAT

Africa Media Forum: Understanding Terrorism and Conflicts in Africa

Multiple security challenges on the African continent, from terrorism to violent extremism to organized crime, continue to threaten peace and displace citizens. What lies at the root of these conflicts, and how can journalists improve their coverage of them?

Moderators

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Novelist, Journalist and Essayist, Thomson Reuters Foundation Correspondent

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a novelist, journalist and essayist. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa), a Betty Trask First Book award, and was named by the Washington Post as one of the Best Books of the Year... Read More →

Speakers

Victor Bwire

Programmes Manager, Media Council of Kenya

Victor Bwire is programmes manager at the Media Council of Kenya. In addition to managing the programmes portfolio at the Council, he runs trainings on specialized reporting including safety and protection of journalists, media and terrorism and violent extremism, fake news and media... Read More →

Hamza Idris

Politics Editor, Daily Trust Newspapers

Hamza Idris is the group politics editor at Daily Trust Newspaper in Nigeria. He was worked for Daily Trust in various capacities since 2005, including as reporter, correspondent, acting bureau chief and bureau chief, serving both in Nigeria’s volatile northeast and in Abuja. He... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 16:30 - 17:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Africa Media Forum

17:00 WAT

Africa Media Forum: Fighting the Good Fight - African Media Face the Might of State Censorship

Across Africa, governments continue to repress media freedom through the jailing of journalists, restrictive laws as well as more subtle tactics to control information. Hear prominent journalists discuss their fight to bring news to the public, even when the odds are stacked against them.

Moderators

Edetaen Ojo

Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda, Member of the Board, International Media Support (IMS)

Edetaen Ojo is the Executive Director of The Media Rights Agenda, an organization that promotes excellence and professionalism in journalism in Nigeria. He spearheaded and orchestrated the movement that led the Nigerian legislature to pass the Freedom of Information Act, which empowers... Read More →

Speakers

Deodatus Balile

Tanzania Editor's Forum (TEF), Acting Chairman

Deodatus Balile is currently the Acting Chairperson for Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF). He is a professional career journalist with numerous training in Business Management (MSc – Hull, UK), Diplomacy (PGD – Kurasini, Tanzania), Journalism (ADJ – SAUT, Tanzania), and Bachelor... Read More →

Joan Chirwa

Founder, Free Press Initiative Zambia

Joan Chirwa, a journalist with 16 years of experience both in the field and management position, is a self-driven and highly motivated media personality.Born on August 7, 1981, Joan holds a Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communication from Leicester University in the United Kingdom... Read More →

Barbara Kaija

Editor-in-Chief, New Vision Printing & Publishing Company

Barbara Kaija is editor-in-chief of the New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Ltd, the largest media house in Uganda. The company owns seven newspapers, including the country’s two largest dailies; six radio stations, four TV stations, websites and magazines. Kaija joined New... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 17:00 - 18:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Edo Room

Africa Media Forum

17:00 WAT

Africa Media Forum: Why Nigeria’s Journalists Struggle to Make a Living, and What We Can Do About It.

Too often, low wages, poor labour conditions and inadequate safety measures challenge the ability of Nigeria’s newsrooms to exercise their watchdog role. What steps must be taken to improve working conditions in the name of quality reporting – and where does responsibility lie?

Moderators

Roukaya Kasenally

CEO, African Media Initiative

Speakers

Ralph Akinfeleye

Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Lagos/ DAAR Communications

Prof Ralph Afolabi Akinfeleye is the Chair and past Head of the Department of Mass Communication University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently the Chairman of the Centre of Excellence in Multimedia and Cinematography/Unilag Radio 103.1fm and Television. A graduate of the World First... Read More →

Funke Egbemode

President, Nigerian Guild of Editors

Funke Egbemode is managing director and editor-in-chief of Daily Telegraph Publishing Ltd, which publishes the New Telegraph Newspapers, and president of the Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE). Born in Osun State, she holds a bachelor’s degree from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile... Read More →

Mohammed Idris

Publisher, Blueprint Newspapers

Abdulwaheed Odusile

President, Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)

Abdulwaheed Odusile is a Nigerian journalist with over 33 years of experience.He started his career as a broadcast journalist, in television, before switching over to print, and has worked since 1985 in various Nigerian newspapers.He began his newspaper career with Nigeria's then-leading... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 17:00 - 18:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Delta Room

Africa Media Forum

19:00 WAT

Gala Dinner & Award Ceremony

Presentation of the IPI Press Freedom Hero & Free Media Pioneer Awards, in partnership with Copenhagen-based International Media Support (IMS).

Dinner hosted by the Nigerian Ministry of Information and Culture.

Speakers

John Githongo

Chief Executive Director, Inuka Kenya Ni Sisi! Ltd

John Githongo is the CEO of Inuka, a non-governmental organisation involved in governance issues broadly defined, with an emphasis on working with and for ordinary Kenyans – youth in particular. In doing this Inuka is guided by the principles of heshima (respect), diversity (celebrating... Read More →

Glenda Gloria

Managing Editor and Co-Founder, Rappler

Ken MacQuarrie

Director, Nations & Regions, BBC

As Director of Nations and Regions, Ken MacQuarrie is responsible for bringing together and enhancing the BBC’s offer to the nations and regions of the UK. Before his appointment in September 2016, he had been Director of BBC Scotland since 2009. He had been Controller since 2004... Read More →

Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information and Culture

Edetaen Ojo

Executive Director, Media Rights Agenda, Member of the Board, International Media Support (IMS)

Yemi Osinbajo

Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo was born into the family of Adeyemi Osinbajo on March 8, 1957 in Lagos. Osinbajo is married to Dolapo (née Soyode), a granddaughter of the Sage Obafemi Awolowo and the marriage is blessed with three children.He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Professor... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 19:00 - 22:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Networking & Social Event

20:30 WAT

Conversation with Wole Soyinka

Speakers

Kenneth Woosuk Choi

Editor, The Chosun Daily Newspaper

Woosuk Kenneth Choi is the International Editor of the Future Planning Department at the Chosun Daily Newspaper, overseeing the Asian Leadership Conference(ALC) which is held annually. As a junior journalist, he founded the Asian Leadership Conference hosted by the Chosun Daily Newspaper... Read More →

Wole Soyinka

Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature

Born in western Nigeria in 1934, Wole Soyinka received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1986. Essentially a playwright, he is also an internationally renowned essayist, poet, novelist, theatre director and scholar. He writes primarily in English and his works are distinguished by... Read More →

Friday June 22, 2018 20:30 - 21:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Plenary session

08:30 WAT

Registration

Pick up your registration packet!
Badges are required for admission to all the sessions and evening events.

Saturday June 23, 2018 08:30 - 09:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

09:00 WAT

Story Lives On

Several journalists around the world have been killed for exposing corruption. In Europe the murders of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta last year and Jan Kuciak in Slovakia this year led to intense consternation and robust response from the journalist community. New projects were jointly launched by media organizations to follow up the stories that the two journalists were working on. The message to the killers and those who hired them is that there are others who have the courage. If one journalist is silenced, it will have a ‘Hydra effect’ and many more journalists everywhere will cover these stories.

Moderators

Barbara Trionfi

Executive Director, Austria, International Press Institute (IPI)

Speakers

Zaffar Abbas

Editor, Dawn newspaper, Pakistan

Zaffar Abbas is the Editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest and most prestigious English language newspaper. This is his 37th year in journalism. During this period he has worked for several news organisations, including 16 years for the BBC World as one of its Pakistan correspondents... Read More →

Matthew Caruana Galizia

Director, Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, Malta

(**Joining online!)Matthew Caruana Galizia is the director the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, which is dedicated to achieving justice for his mother, the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated in a car bomb attack in Malta in 2017. He is also software engineer and journalist who worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist... Read More →

Abdulwaheed Odusile

President, Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)

Saturday June 23, 2018 09:00 - 10:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Plenary session

10:00 WAT

When Lone Wolves Join Forces: Collaborative Investigative Reporting on Corruption, Financial Crimes and Abuse of Power

Lessons from collaborative journalism projects

Moderators

Anita Pratap

Contributing Editor, The Week

Anita Pratap is an award-winning international journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, having worked in Asia, Middle East, Europe and the United States. She is Contributing Editor for India's largest selling English newsmagazine "The Week". She is CNN’s former South Asia... Read More →

Speakers

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Investigative Reporter, Tiger Eye Foundation

Anas Aremeyaw Anas is an undercover journalist working in Ghana and across the African continent. In disguise, he finds his way into asylums, brothels, prisons, orphanages and villages, where he methodically gathers evidence for hard-hitting stories – then presents the evidence... Read More →

Dapo Olorunyomi

Publisher & CEO, Premium Times

Dapo Olorunyomi is currently the publisher of Nigeria’s leading investigative news platform, Premium Times. Previous to this, he served as pioneer policy director and chief of staff at Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.His... Read More →

Saturday June 23, 2018 10:00 - 11:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Plenary session

11:00 WAT

Short Break

Saturday June 23, 2018 11:00 - 11:15 WAT
Hilton Hotel

11:15 WAT

Under Press(ure): Covering Natural Resources and The Extractive Sector

Oil, gas and mining as leading sources of wealth, corruption and conflict

Moderators

Marty Steffens

SABEW chair and professor, University of Missouri

Marty Steffens is a professor and SABEW endowed chair at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, and has trained hundreds of journalists in more than 30 countries. In 2021 she was awarded the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, the university’s highest award for... Read More →

Speakers

Oludotun Babayemi

Umaru Fofana

BBC Correspondent, FreeMedia Group CEO

Umaru Fofana has been a journalist for over 20 years and has reported from Asia, the United States and several countries in Africa. He is based in his native Sierra Leone where he works as a freelance journalist mainly for the BBC and Reuters. He co-owns the FreeMedia Group, which... Read More →

Khadija Sharife

Africa Editor, OCCRP South Africa

This is a brief bio.

Saturday June 23, 2018 11:15 - 12:15 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Parallel event

11:15 WAT

Surveillance and the Media: Roundtable & Workshop (part I)

The behaviour of tracking, monitoring, gathering data and invading privacy otherwise known as surveillance, has become normal practice across the globe. Government surveillance programs are carried out in the name of terrorism, but what is the real motive behind this? How aware are the media about surveillance tactics in their countries and how can they protect their data, employees and their sources?

What is the state of surveillance in your country?
How has state surveillance impacted the media and the way they operate?
How has the sophistication and increase in targeted online attacks changed journalism?
How have regulations and laws influenced the parameters of surveillance?
Are journalists and media houses aware of the risks?
What are safeguards that you are taking to counter surveillance?

(in partnership with Free Press Unlimited)

Moderators

Leon Willems

Sr. Advisor International Partnerships, Free Press Unlimited

Leon Willems, Netherlands, is the Director of Free Press Unlimited, a leading press freedom organisation active in more than 30 countries and focusing on conflict reporting, safety for journalists, investigative journalism, gender and youth and media. He is also member of the Steering... Read More →

Speakers

Virginia Pérez Alonso

Co Editor-in-Chief, Público

Virginia Pérez Alonso is a Spanish journalist and co-editor-in-chief at Público, the only influential mainstream media in Spain to have two women at the helm. Before that, she served as deputy editor-in-chief at El Mundo. Previously, she was the deputy editor-in-chief at Grupo 20... Read More →

Joan Chirwa

Founder, Free Press Initiative Zambia

Xeenarh Mohammed

Dapo Olorunyomi

Publisher & CEO, Premium Times

Joshua Olufemi

Program Director, Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism

Saturday June 23, 2018 11:15 - 12:15 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Delta Room

Workshops

12:15 WAT

Lunch

Saturday June 23, 2018 12:15 - 13:15 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Networking & Social Event

13:15 WAT

Contending with Fake News and Propaganda

Newsroom strategies to build trust in fact-based journalism

Moderators

Johannes Hano

Bureau Chief, New York and Canada, ZDF-Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

Since September 2014, Johannes Hano has headed New York/Canada office of ZDF. Before coming to the US, he was based for eight Years in Beijing as ZDF Bureau Chief East Asia. He worked for ZDF's primetime investigative news show "Frontal 21" and as a political correspondent in Berlin. He has authored a number of award winning documentaries about the "war... Read More →

Speakers

David Ajikobi

Nigeria Editor, Africa Check

David is the Nigeria editor of Africa Check joining them as the country’s first dedicated fact-checker. With a decade of experience, he’s worked across different media platforms from print, radio, television, online and digital media. He was a pioneer news editors/producer at... Read More →

Virginia Pérez Alonso

Co Editor-in-Chief, Público

Mary Dedinsky

professor, Northwestern University

Mary Dedinsky, MSJ, is a long-time editor and reporter and was the first woman to be named managing editor of a major U.S. newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times. At the Sun-Times, she was also an education reporter, investigative reporter, editorial writer, metropolitan editor, and director... Read More →

Saturday June 23, 2018 13:15 - 14:15 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Parallel event

13:15 WAT

Surveillance and the Media: Roundtable & Workshop (part II)

What is the state of surveillance in your country?
How has state surveillance impacted the media and the way they operate?
How has the sophistication and increase in targeted online attacks changed journalism?
How have regulations and laws influenced the parameters of surveillance?
Are journalists and media houses aware of the risks?
What are safeguards that you are taking to counter surveillance?

(in partnership with Free Press Unlimited)

(in partnership with Free Press Unlimited)

Moderators

Leon Willems

Sr. Advisor International Partnerships, Free Press Unlimited

Speakers

Virginia Pérez Alonso

Co Editor-in-Chief, Público

Joan Chirwa

Founder, Free Press Initiative Zambia

Xeenarh Mohammed

Dapo Olorunyomi

Publisher & CEO, Premium Times

Joshua Olufemi

Program Director, Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism

Saturday June 23, 2018 13:15 - 14:15 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Delta Room

Workshops

14:15 WAT

Innovative Ways to Fund Investigative Journalism: Interactive Conversation

Challenges with funding newsrooms
Innovative ways to generate revenue
Forecast: opportunities for building trust and citizen investment in investigative journalism

In partnership with Reboot.

Speakers

Motunrayo Alaka

Coordinator, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism

Motunrayo Alaka leads the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism – the pioneer organisation promoting investigative reporting in Nigeria. Motunrayo Alaka is particularly excited about issues of communications development, social entrepreneurship, inclusive governance... Read More →

Lisa Akinyi May

Grant Coordinator, Journalismfund.eu

Lisa Akinyi May is in charge of Journalismfund.eu’s communications. She also coordinates the Money Trail Grants. Lisa studied Journalism at Thomas More University College, majoring in television broadcasting.She's a multimedia journalist with experience in television and online media. Her areas of strength include news production, researching, and work experience in the Belgian media. As a... Read More →

Joshua Olufemi

Program Director, Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism

Saturday June 23, 2018 14:15 - 15:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel

Parallel event

14:15 WAT

Gender Hack: What Change Can I Bring?

It has been more than 20 years since the Beijing Platform for Action put gender equality as a critical issue. What we need is less talk and more action! This is a hands-on session designed to encourage editors and journalists to look at critical and protracted gender related challenges in the media with a solution-oriented lens. Editors and journalists are encouraged to to bring their own experiences and clear problem statements from their newsrooms that will be ¨hacked¨ on or worked out during the session. The results? A fresh perspective, new ideas and some commitments that you can take back with you to your newsrooms.

(in partnership with Free Press Unlimited and African Media initiative)

Moderators

Roukaya Kasenally

CEO, African Media Initiative

Bethel Tsegaye

Program Coordinator, Free Press Unlimited

Bethel has designed, managed and implemented freedom of expression projects in the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan and West Africa. She began her career at the International Center for Journalists, where she supported the prestigious Knight International Journalism Fellowships... Read More →

Speakers

Motunrayo Alaka

Coordinator, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism

Gwen Lister

Executive Chairperson, Namibia Media Trust

Lekan Otufodunrin

Managing Editor, Media Career Development Network (MCDN) Nigeria

Journalist and Media career development specialist working as Online Editor and committed to providing regular training, mentoring and coaching for journalists in Nigeria and AfricaWith over 30-years meritorious experience in the profession which earned him commendations for outstanding... Read More →

Saturday June 23, 2018 14:15 - 16:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Delta Room

Workshops

15:00 WAT

Evidence is Power: Presentation of Independent and Secure Platforms for Journalists in Nigeria

* Report a threat!
Press Attack Tracker is a geo-location platform for tracking and reporting attacks on journalists in Nigeria.

* Protect your source!
Leaks.ng is Nigeria´s first secure whistleblowing platform that allows citizens to send sensitive information in the public interest to trusted media houses anonymously.

Speakers

Oluwatosin Alagbe

Design and Technology Lead, Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism

I’m the Design and Technology Lead at Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), an organization founded to promote a truly independent media landscape that advances fundamental human rights, good governance and accountability through the use of investigative journalism... Read More →

Saturday June 23, 2018 15:00 - 15:30 WAT
Hilton Hotel

15:00 WAT

IPI General Assembly

NOTE: For IPI members only.

Saturday June 23, 2018 15:00 - 17:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Edo Room

For IPI Members only

17:00 WAT

IPI Executive Board Meeting

Newly elected Executive Board meets.

NOTE: For Executive Board members only!

Saturday June 23, 2018 17:00 - 18:00 WAT
Hilton Hotel / Edo Room

For IPI Members only

18:30 WAT

Transfers to the closing dinner

Buses leave from Transcorp Hilton Hotel

Saturday June 23, 2018 18:30 - 18:45 WAT
TBA

19:00 WAT

Closing Dinner

Dinner hosted by the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Speakers

Yusuf Kabiru

Chairman, Daily Trust Newspapers

Kabiru A. Yusuf, is a media professional with over two decades of experience. Mr. Yusuf holds B.Sc degree in Political Science and History from Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, and a Masters degree in Political Economy from University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently the Chairman... Read More →

Abubakar Bukola Saraki

President, Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki is president of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is currently serving a second term as senator representing Kwara Central in the National Assembly of Nigeria. Before his election to the Nigerian Senate in 2011, he had previously been twice... Read More →

Saturday June 23, 2018 19:00 - 22:00 WAT
The Dunes, Maitama district, Abuja

Networking & Social Event

10:00 WAT

Media Tour: Guided Tour to Channels TV

Limited Capacity full

Maximum number of participants: 20
For registered IPI World Congress participants only. No additional fee.
Pre-registration required. To register, please send an email to cklint@ipi.media.
Transfers from the Transcorp Hilton Hotel will be arranged. Bus leaves at 09:45 from the hotel.

Sunday June 24, 2018 10:00 - 12:00 WAT
Channels TV, Abuja

Tour