Voices Online: Blogging Conference

Monday 11 May 2009
City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 4DB

The Next Century Foundation in association with the Department of Journalism at City University London is holding a one day conference on Monday 11 May entitled Voices Online: Blogging Conference.

The conference is looking at the role of blogging and micro-blogging and will bring bloggers from the Middle East to debate and interact with their Western counterparts in a series of panel discussions.

Speakers to include:

Professor Adrian Monck - Head of Journalism and Publishing at City University London.

Guido Fawkes - Political blogger of the day - received wide recognition for breaking the news of leaked e-mails from Damian McBride.

Karim Arafat - Co-founder of Watwet, the Arabic twitter and Tootcorp.

Slugger O'Toole - Northern Ireland Politics Blog and Head of Political Blogs, Telegraph Group.
Badrakhan Al-Sindi - Editor in Chief of Iraqi Al -Ta'akhi newspaper.

Andrew Miller - Political Editor and author of Bagehot column, The Economist.

Mark Jones - Reuters Global Community Editor.

Mona Eltahawy - Egyptian/US Columnist, Analyst & Blogger.

Andrew Sparrow - Senior Political Correspondent, Guardian website & Orwell Prize 2009 shortlisted Blog.

Oren Yakobovich - Leads the video department of Israeli Human Rights group B'Tselem. Founder of 'Shooting Back".

Programme

9.30am - 10.30am	Session 1 - State of the Art Technology
10.45am - 11.45am	Session 2 - Blogger to Blogger - The Political Blog
11.45am - 12.45pm	Session 3 - Journalist Bloggers
12.45pm - 13.30pm	Lunch
13.30pm - 15.30pm	Working Groups

The Conference is open to all but if you wish to secure a place please email:
ncfpeace@aol.com or PowellDR@state.gov or d.pout@btinternet.com

This event is organised by The Next Century Foundation and held with support from The US Media Outreach Centre at the US Embassy.

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Date of Article: 06/05/2009