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<body style="font: 10pt/normal Segoe UI; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><div class="GroupWiseMessageBody" id="GroupWiseSection_1531311500000_Svende.Eickhoff@fes.de_5BE69AC006CA00008DFD7CC34C91D7E1_"><div><div><font face="Arial"><font size="2">- SAVE THE DATE -</font></font></div><font face="Arial"></font><div><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><br></font></font><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><em>The Silent Takeover - Media Capture in the 21st Century<br>FoME Symposium 2018<br>November 22-23<br>Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin<br>Hosted by FES, MiCT & Reporters Without Borders</em></font></font></div><div><em><font face="Arial"></font></em><em><font face="Arial"><br></font></em></div><div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The era of censorship is not over, but governments no longer need to openly exert their power over media in forms of censorship or force.</font></div><font face="Arial"></font><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>The Silent Takeover of the media in the 21st century comes through the backdoor. Supportive and subtle rather than repressive forms of political and business-related intervention in the media sector seem to become the method of choice.<br>Our <a href="https://fome.info/">2018 FoME Symposium</a> puts the complex triangle of “Politics – Private Interests – Media” at the center of debate. </font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">On November 22nd and 23rd, about 100 media experts from around the world will get together on the premises of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Berlin to assess the state of Media Capture in the 21st Century. </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>We will discuss which factors foster what academic literature calls Media Capture, to what extent this expanding strategy influences democracy, pluralism and freedom of the press and how to prevent “The Silent Takeover” of the free media. This takeover can have many different faces: media can be founded, owned, financed, supported and/or operated by actors with political interests.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">At FoME 2018 we will analyze the different shapes Media Capture can take and discuss solutions in a number of sessions ranging from panel discussions to hands-on workshops. </font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">The symposium is organized and hosted by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in cooperation with Reporter Without Borders (RSF Germany) and Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT). The Forum Media and Development (FoME) is an initiative of 20 organizations from German-speaking countries active in international media development, including Deutsche Welle Akademie, GIZ, Reporters Without Borders, MiCT, ECPMF, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, IDEM, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, CAMECO and others.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">For inquiries please contact Christopher Forst (</font><a href="mailto:christopher.forst@fes.de"><font face="Arial" size="2">christopher.forst@fes.de</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">) or Svende Eickhoff (</font><a href="mailto:svende.eickhoff@fes.de"><font face="Arial" size="2">svende.eickhoff@fes.de</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2">). Registration opens on September 20th.</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Anja Wollenberg (MiCT), Lisa Kretschmer (Reporter Ohne Grenzen), Christopher Forst (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)<br>Curators of the 2018 FoME Symposium</font><br></div></div></div></div><BR>
<font size="2" face="Arial">Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., Vorsitzender: Ministerpräsident a.D. Kurt Beck. Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied: Dr. Roland Schmidt, Godesberger Allee 149, D-53175 Bonn, Tel. +49 (0)228/883-0, Berliner Anschrift: Hiroshimastr. 17, 10785 Berlin, info@fes.de</font>
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