Paris, 18-19 April 2008

ASIA PRESSE, Paris
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS, New York
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA, New York, Hong Kong and Brussels
REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES, Paris
WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NEWSPAPERS, Paris
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM COMMITTEE, Washington DC


Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Simultaneous interpretation in Chinese, French, English

Friday 18 April

9:00 - 9:30
Introductory speech: Merle Goldman, Professor Emerita of History, Boston University/Research Associate, John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University

Panels:

9:30 - 11:00
1. Press freedom and the Beijing Olympics

Moderator: Alberto Ibarguen, President, Knight Foundation

Paul Steiger, Chair, Committee to Protect Journalists; former Managing Editor, Wall Street Journal

Per Toien, Chief of Information, Norwegian Olympic and Para-Olympic Committee & Sports Confederation (NIF)

Steve Wilson, European Sports Editor, Associated Press; member, International Olympics Committee Press Commission

Henrikas Yushkiavitshus, former UNESCO Assistant Director General for Communication; Press arrangements head, Moscow Olympics, 1980

11:00 - 11:20: Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:50
2. How are Chinese news media controlled?

Moderator: Timothy Balding, CEO, World Association of Newspapers

Bob Dietz, Asia Program Coordinator, CPJ

Gao Yu, Freelance Journalist; Golden Pen of Freedom, 1995; First laureate, 1997, of UNESCO's annual World Press Freedom Prize

Agnes Gaudu, China Editor, Courrier International Magazine

Guo Guoting, Chinese Journalists Defense Lawyer

12:50 - 14:30: Lunch

14:30 - 16:00
3. What reporting conditions should you expect in Beijing?

Moderator: Alain Wang, Director, Asia Presse; Editor, Asia Magazine

Vincent Brossel, Head, Asia Desk, Reporters Without Borders

Jocelyn Ford, Chair, Media Freedoms Committee, Foreign Correspondents Club of China

Huang Xiaolu, Expert on China's environmental issues

Jon Williams, World News Editor, BBC News

16:00 - 16:20: Coffee Break

16:20 - 18h00
4. Trading with China: What risks, responsibilities, opportunities?

Moderator: Sharon Hom, Executive Director, Human Rights in China

Robert O Boorstin, Director, Corporate and Policy Communications, Google

Kathryn Dovey, Programme Manager, Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights (BLIHR) ; Programme Director, Entreprises pour les droits de l'homme (EDH)

Peter Scheer, Head of California First Amendment Coalition

Gregory Walton, Security analyst, Openflows

Saturday 19 April

9:00 - 10:30
5. China's Internet: What freedom/What limits?

Moderator: Richard Winfield, Chairman, World Press Freedom Committee

Ronald J. Deibert, Director, The Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; Co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative

Watson Meng, Founding Editor, Boxun News Website

Julien Pain, Director, France 24 TV's web site, "Observers"

Yu Zhang, Coordinator, Independent Chinese PEN Centre

10:30 - 10:50 : Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:20
6. How does China deal with foreign and peripheral news media?

Moderator: Vincent Brossel, Head, Asia Desk, Reporters Without Borders

Oystein Alme, Director, Voice of Tibet

Yuwen Wu, News and Current Affairs Editor, BBC Chinese Service

12:20 - 12:50
Concluding speech: Jean-Philippe Beja, Senior Research Fellow, CNRS (National Center for the Scientific Research)/CERI-Sciences-Po (International Studies Center)