[cma-l] How Can We Create Media Democracy? Media Democracy Festival 2015 #MDFest15

Thu Sep 24 17:11:54 BST 2015

To help build a movement for#MediaDemocracy
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/MediaDemocracy> the Media Reform Coalition is
holding a big Media Democracy Festival at Goldsmiths University on October
17th 2015.

Early bird tickets on sale for the next 24 hours:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we-create-media-democracy-media-democracy-festival-2015-mdfest15-tickets-18678036510

Speakers

9am - 10am: Arrivals/ registration - Great Hall

10am - 11.30am: Great Hall

The day will start with some great speakers setting the scene and
explaining why Media Democracy is so important.  Confirmed speakers include:

Aral Balkan <https://ar.al/>

A designer & social entrepreneur creating independent technologies that
protect our fundamental freedoms & democracy.

Natalie Fenton <http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/n-fenton/>

Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, Co-Director of
the Goldsmiths
Leverhulme Media Research Centre
<http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-research-centre/> and  Centre for the Study of
Global Media and Democracy <http://www.gold.ac.uk/global-media-democracy/>, a
founding member of the Media Reform Coalition
<http://www.mediareform.org.uk/> and Board Director of Hacked Off
<http://hackinginquiry.org/>.

Kam Sandhu <https://twitter.com/KamBass>

A journalist and co-founder of Real Media <http://realmedia.press/>, an
independent news website and aggregator that campaigns for public interest
journalism and against mass media distortion. Kam has written and produced
several short documentaries, and also founded RealFare
<http://www.realfare.co.uk/>, where she spent over two years reporting on
the effects of austerity on welfare and inequality before Real Media.

Michelle Stanistreet
<https://www.nuj.org.uk/about/union-democracy/gs-dgs-and-national-officers/>

Michelle is the elected general secretary of the National Union of
Journalists <https://www.nuj.org.uk/> (UK and Ireland).  Michelle worked as
a journalist for 10 years at the Sunday Express newspaper as feature writer
and books editor.

11.30am  - 12pm: Break, and the great chair re-arrange, Great Hall
Open Space Unconference

12 - 6pm: Great Hall (with breakout sessions in various classrooms)

The bulk of the day will be a self-organising open space unconference
facilitated by Johnnie Moore <http://johnniemoore.com/>.  Everyone will be
free to propose a session that answers our central question: How can we
create media democracy?

Sessions already lined-up include:

   - Drew Rose from Bristol Cable <http://thebristolcable.org/> and Danielle
   Batist from Positive News <http://positivenews.org.uk/> (and the
Constructive
   Journalism Project <http://constructivejournalism.org/>) doing a session
   on Media Co-ops.
   -
   - Andy Williams
   <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/contactsandpeople/profiles/williams-andy.html>
    from Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
   <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/> and Sam Kinch from Hastings Independent
   <http://hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/> on Community Journalism.
   -
   - Jonathan Heawood from IMPRESS <http://impressproject.org/> and Natalie
   Fenton from Hacked Off <http://hackinginquiry.org/> with an update on
   Leveson and why a recognised press regulator could be good for small
   publishers.
   -
   - Mike Flood Page of Open Democracy <https://www.opendemocracy.net/>'s
   OurBeeb <https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb> will be asking does
   public service broadcasting have a future?
   -
   - Matteo Bergamini  from Shout Out UK <http://www.shoutoutuk.org/>'s
    and Susana Giner from Youth Media Agency
   <http://www.youthmediaagency.org.uk/> on Changing Perceptions of
   the Youth in the Media.
   -
   - Open Democracy <https://www.opendemocracy.net/>'s Adam Ramsay on How
   Climate Change is Reported in the Media.
   -
   - Richard Hering from visionOntv <http://visionon.tv/> on How to Build
   the Citizen TV Revolution.
   -
   - Bectu Writers, Producers and Directors branch members Chester Yang
   <http://chesteryangfilms.com/> and Marcus Relton
   <https://www.bectu.org.uk/advice-resources/crewbus/891517ed336bc63566261723d2a45118>
on
   their plans for a progressive internet TV station in partnership with
   the trade unions.
   -
   - Gail Bradbrook from Compassionate Revolution
   <https://compassionate-revolution.net/> on collective acts of civil
   disobedience and media reform, looking at the legal side of sabotaging
   the media, brainstorming cheerful subversive actions.

Film

Alongside the open space they'll be screenings of related documentaries
including:

The Fourth Estate <http://www.fourthestatedoc.com/> with a Q&A with
Director Lee Salter

El Diario de Agustin
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agust%C3%ADn%27s_Newspaper> (Agustin's
Newspaper), with a Q&A hosted by Alborada <http://alborada.net/>.

Plus:

10 minute summary presentations running on a loop from Centre for
Investigative Journalism <http://tcij.org/>:

The Centre for Investigative Journalism – An introduction to the
organisation

Data Stories - Using data to find, write and explain news stories, from
Excel to SQL

Interactive Storytelling - The cutting edge of innovation in digital
narrative methods

Advanced Online Research - Tips and tricks for getting the most out of the
internet

The FOIA: Problems and pitfalls - Getting the most out of your requests.

Information Security – Keeping your communication secure

Company Accounts – ‘Follow The Money’ investigations into illicit finance

Workshops

Half hour taster sessions run by the Centre for Investigative Journalism
<http://tcij.org/>.

15:00-15:30 Data Stories - Using data to find, write and explain news
stories, from Excel to SQL, led by Juliet Ferguson.

15:30-16:00 The FOIA: Problems and pitfalls - Getting the most out of your
requests, led by Sid Ryan.

16:00-16:30 Interactive Storytelling - The cutting edge of innovation in
digital narrative methods, led by Marina Calland.

16:30-17:00 Information Security – Keeping your communication secure, led
by Tom Sanderson.

Party (and live crowdfunding)

6pm - late.

Live crowdfunding of media projects, spoken word, live music, and DJs.  In
the evening we're partnering with Filanthropy
<http://www.filanthropystar.org/> to organise a party from 6pm - late in
the Student Union.  This will include the opportunity for 3 projects to
pitch to the room and invite pledges of financial and other support from
the crowd (who will be able to decide which projects get £5 of their ticket
money, plus anything else they feel inspired to contribute).

If you've got a media project that could really do with £500-1000 to help
get you started then watch this space for the application form coming
soon...

LIVE BAND: United Vibrations <http://www.unitedvibrations.co.uk/>
We're very pleased that incredible local band and festival favourites United
Vibrations will be joining us for the party.

SPOKEN WORD: Anthony Anaxagorou <http://anthonyanaxagorou.com/>, Deanna
<http://deannarodger.co.uk/> Rodger <http://deannarodger.co.uk/> and Potent
Whisper <http://potentwhisper.com/>
<http://deannarodger.co.uk/>These amazing wordsmiths will be kicking the
party off with their inspirational lyrics and wordplay.

Tickets:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we-create-media-democracy-media-democracy-festival-2015-mdfest15-tickets-18678036510

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