This international conference opened with two lectures by Benjamin Barber and Claus Offe. Keynote presentations by Jürgen Kocka and Gesine Schwan. Panelists at the conference included Lance Bennett, Donatella Della Porta, Hartmut Häußerman, Jochen Sandig, Barbara John, Marc Morjé Howard, and Antanas Mockus.

Dr Jeffrey Gedmin, the President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Respondents:  Susan Richards, a non-executive director and founder of openDemocracy and Robert Chandler, writer and translator.  Chair: John Lloyd, founding editor of the Financial Times Magazine and Director of Journalism, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Speakers: Alex Brummer, Vince Cable MP, Evan Davis, Gillian Tett; Professor Willem Buiter.  Chair:  Howard Davies

Experts examine the dramatic shift of traditional media away from foreign reporting and the growth of Web-based citizen journalists and the effect on coverage of international news and human rights issues. 

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Stephen Coleman, professor of political communication at Leeds University