World media groups pledge to work together
Published: 12 Oct. 2009, 00:46
Dozens of worldwide media organizations agreed on Saturday to make concerted efforts to collaborate, achieve common development and provide accurate and transparent news to the public.
The 300 media representatives from 170 companies had convened in Beijing for the World Media Summit to overcome the current challenges facing world media outlets in the fast-changing digital and multimedia era.
The theme of the three-day summit, which was hosted by China’s Xinhua News Agency, was “Cooperation, Action, Win-Win and Development.”
The JoongAng Ilbo was the only Korean newspaper in attendance. Yonhap News Agency was also there.
“We note that the world is undergoing complicated and profound changes,” said the joint statement issued by worldwide representatives. The statement went on to say that economic globalization, the information explosion, the prevalence of new communication technologies, plus the diversity and integration of world cultures provide great opportunities for global media development and set up an important platform for media organizations to cover world events and global issues.
“We hope that media organizations around the world will provide accurate, objective, impartial and fair coverage of the world’s news events, and promote transparency and accountability of governments and public institutions, and thus facilitate the mutual understanding as well as exchange of views and ideas among peoples from different countries and regions,” the statement continued.
Chinese President Hu Jintao said in an opening speech at the summit on Oct. 9 that the Chinese government will safeguard the rights and interests of news media from overseas.
“We will continue to make government affairs public, enhance information distribution, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters, and facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with China’s laws and regulations,” Hu said in Beijing.
On Saturday, Hong Seok-hyun, chairman of the JoongAng Ilbo, and Wang Chen, minister of China’s State Council Information Office, agreed there was an urgent need for an Asian media that carried unbiased reports about news in Asia.
“Eighty percent of information is dominated by Western countries’ news wires,” Wang said in a luncheon meeting with Hong. Hong said Asia needed its own representative voice that offered an unbiased voice.
The summit attracted representatives from The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, NHK, Canadian Press and Al Jazeera.
By Kim Mi-ju [[email protected]]
The 300 media representatives from 170 companies had convened in Beijing for the World Media Summit to overcome the current challenges facing world media outlets in the fast-changing digital and multimedia era.
The theme of the three-day summit, which was hosted by China’s Xinhua News Agency, was “Cooperation, Action, Win-Win and Development.”
The JoongAng Ilbo was the only Korean newspaper in attendance. Yonhap News Agency was also there.
“We note that the world is undergoing complicated and profound changes,” said the joint statement issued by worldwide representatives. The statement went on to say that economic globalization, the information explosion, the prevalence of new communication technologies, plus the diversity and integration of world cultures provide great opportunities for global media development and set up an important platform for media organizations to cover world events and global issues.
“We hope that media organizations around the world will provide accurate, objective, impartial and fair coverage of the world’s news events, and promote transparency and accountability of governments and public institutions, and thus facilitate the mutual understanding as well as exchange of views and ideas among peoples from different countries and regions,” the statement continued.
Chinese President Hu Jintao said in an opening speech at the summit on Oct. 9 that the Chinese government will safeguard the rights and interests of news media from overseas.
“We will continue to make government affairs public, enhance information distribution, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters, and facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with China’s laws and regulations,” Hu said in Beijing.
On Saturday, Hong Seok-hyun, chairman of the JoongAng Ilbo, and Wang Chen, minister of China’s State Council Information Office, agreed there was an urgent need for an Asian media that carried unbiased reports about news in Asia.
“Eighty percent of information is dominated by Western countries’ news wires,” Wang said in a luncheon meeting with Hong. Hong said Asia needed its own representative voice that offered an unbiased voice.
The summit attracted representatives from The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, NHK, Canadian Press and Al Jazeera.
By Kim Mi-ju [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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