Representation, relevance, redefinition.

These are three words which will define NX19.

As structures in our society are being challenged, are we doing enough to challenge the structure of our house, our industry?

REPRESENTATION – Who’s in our newsrooms? Are they fortresses for the privileged? Will the fortress burn?

RELEVANCE – As our audience shifts, how can we remain relevant? Do we have to be relevant to be trusted?

REDEFINITION – The game is changing, are we alive to the possibilities?

“Truth springs from arguments amongst friends” – David Hume.

This is a famous quote from the Scottish Enlightenment period. At NX18, we are building a set of discussions and debates that will challenge us: challenge our assumptions, challenge our willingness to consider another

AN EBU CONFERENCE

2018 AGENDA (work in progress)

1

point of view. You will find these challenges in our topics, in our speakers, in our structure.

This year, we are introducing several truly unique elements. Here are three:

News Xchange will be designed around four key blocks: 1) Representation2) Activism and Social Movements3) Truth & Lies, and 4) Innovation.

Each block will contain a number of panel discussions, presentations, short sharps and keynotes.

We will have one moderator (or a team of moderators) for each block. This will give us something new, something we believe will deepen our learning and expand our ability to find the connections – and the discrepancies and contradictions – in our agenda.

This is still a work in progress. We will update this regularly. Please check back and if you have an idea and wish to get in touch, please email Amy Selwyn at amy.selwyn@gmail.com.

This year’s Executive Producer is Chris Gibson, BBC News. Chris.Gibson01@bbc.co.uk

2

TUESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER

Late Afternoon film screening, “The Cleaners”EICC (Room to be announced)

7:00pm to 9:00pm Opening Reception, National Museum of ScotlandCo-hosted by BBC World News and the European Broadcasting Union

7:15 (TBC) Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party, introduced by Sarah Smith, BBC News, Scotland Editor

WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER

8:00amEDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER OPENS TO NX18

8:00amREGISTRATION DESK IS OPEN

09:15amOFFICIAL OPENING FOR NX18 BY AMY SELWYN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEWS XCHANGE

09:30amNOEL CURRAN, DIRECTOR GENERAL, EBU WELCOMING REMARKS

09:45amTONY HALL, DIRECTOR GENERAL, BBC Opening Keynote

10:05amQ&A FOR TONY HALL

10:15am QUESTION TIME! Moderated by Amol Rajan, BBC News Question Time is a BBC topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom. We will launch a special edition, live from News Xchange 2018. This will be your opportunity to ask your toughest questions of our studio guests.

Guests include:• Michaela Kufner, Political Editor, Deutsche Welle• David Rhodes, President, CBS News• Ash Sarkar, Senior Editor, Novara Media• Others to be announced

11:20 to 11:45am BREAK

3

THEME: REPRESENTATION 11:45am MIND THE GAP Moderator: Julie Etchingham, ITV News

Are we relevant to our audiences? Do we look like them? Sound like them? Do we come from the same places? Do we share their perspectives? Do we understand their challenges?

In 2016, we asked our audience if we were ‘out of touch’ post Brexit and Trump.In 2018, the structures of power are being challenged across the globe in a wave of empowerment sweeping across boardrooms, catwalks and even newsrooms.

After numerous focus groups, we believe the most important question facing our industry in 2018 is a simple one – can we remain relevant without being more representative?

Young audiences expect greater representation. Is that one of the reasons many 18-24-year-olds are tuning out or, more likely, never tuning in? Frankly, they can see their reflection on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch. But they cannot see their reflection in the news industry.

The purpose of this session is not to devolve into a shouting match based on binary arguments about hiring black or gay journalists. Rather, it is to dig deep into the issue and identify what we agree on, what we disagree on, what is working, what is not, how to proceed.

Panelists to include:• Kumba Kpakima, Apprentice, Sky News • Anshul Tewari, Founder, Youth Ki Awaaz India’s number 1online youth

portal• Noriko Kudo, NHK News• Tobi Oredin, Black Ballad• Mika Rahkonen, Yle• Lucille Werner, Dutch TV Host and Disability Rights Campaigner

12:30pm to 12:50pm REPRESENTATION VIA INSTAGRAM: NEW WAYS OF TELLING STORIES AND ENGAGING NEW AUDIENCESLila King, Instagram

13:00 pmOpen for Q&A (15 minutes)

4

1:15pm GLOBAL YOUTH AND NEWS MEDIA PRIZEPresentation of inaugural joint award to the Guardian US and the student journalists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, USA. Award partners are [or include] News-Decoder, the Google News Literacy Initiative and the European Journalism Centre. Dr. Aralynn McMane, prize co-director, and Nelson Graves, founder, News-Decoder.

1:30pm BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:15pm MASTER CLASSES (OPTIONAL)There will be a choice of 3 master classes:

• Dataminr• Sony• Storyful

3:10pmRETURN TO MAIN HALL

5

THEME: JOURNALISM/ACTIVISM Moderator Iman Rappetti, PowerFM, Author

We are going to look at some of the most powerful new socal movements, #MeToo, #IHaveTheRight, #WhyIDidntReport #GunControlNow. We will hear firsthand how the stories and the reporting have evolved over the last 12 – 24 months.

Media has been loathe, traditionally, to “take sides” or get involved in any way. For some audiences, especially the young, this insistence that we continue to have “impartial” discussions about rape, gun violence, etc., is not only antiquated but dangerous. And also impossible, some say. For others, the trial-by-journalist approach is an affront to decency and an abrogation of duty. “That’s not your job!” they say.

We’ll look at:

• How do journalists cover rape, sexual assault and sexual misconduct?

• What happens when a story becomes a movement? • Is it sensible and practical to keep insisting that journalists cannot be

activists? • What if the activism is coming from the journalist(s) him or herself? • What are the dangers and how do we prevent “witch hunts”?

3:20pm - 4:20pm SHORT PRESENTATIONS

Parkland - Melissa Falkowski, School teacher and adviser to the Eagle Eye, and staff reporter Dara Rosen

Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – Pulitzer prize winning journalists , The New York Times on their Harvey Weinstein investigation (via prerecorded video interview)

Jenn Abelson, Spotlight team, The Boston Globe and Chessy Prout, Author, “#IHaveThe Right”

Asun Gomez Bueno, RTVE - On the Black Friday campaign against alleged political interference, gender bias and unequal pay.

6

4:20pm - 5:00pm PANEL DISCUSSION: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR JOURNALISM? JOURNALISTS AND EDITORS IN DISCUSSION

Is media part of political/social movements? Should we be? How do editors and journalists view this?

Panel to include:• Jenn Abelson, The Boston Globe• Asun Gomez Bueno, RTVE• Ben DePear, Channel 4• Marcel Gelauff, NOS

5:05pm - 5:20pm EBU NEWS REPORT

5:20pm - 5:30pm WRAP UP FOR DAYPreview Day Two, announcements, etc.

5:45pm COCKTAIL AT VENUE Documentary Film Screening, EICC, “The Cleaners” (OPTIONAL and free of charge to all registered delegates)

7

THURSDAY, 15 NOVEMBER

10:00amWelcome back

THEME: TRUTH & LIES This is not a morning of lamenting fake news.

We’re not asking the question about whether there is misinformation. There is. The more important question is how to deal with it and how to demonstrate to audiences that we are honest brokers…if that is what we are…

10:10am KEYNOTE FROM MAYOR CARMEN YULIN, PUERTO RICOThe misinformation surrounding the severity of the damage, the efforts by the Puerto Rican people, the US government and, finally, the information that the death count is not 64, as the government reported, but at least 5,000 (and growing).

10:30pmOpen for Q&A (15 minutes)

10:50am - 11:10am THE DAPHNE PROJECT Sons of murdered Maltese Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia (via Reuters)

11:10 to 11:35 BREAK

11:35 to 12:00 OPEN SOURCE INVESTIGATIONSAliaume Leroy, Bellingcat and Daniel Adamson, BBC Africa Eye.

8

12:00pm - 12:45pm WHO CONTROLS WHAT WE SEE ON THE INTERNET? Produced by Gerard van den Broek, NOS News

• Documentary Filmmakers, The Cleaners• Social Media strategist• An individual employed as a ‘cleaner’. • Facebook representative.

A critical part of the discussion about truth and lies is control/management of online content. Who controls what we see on the Internet? Who decides what needs to be cleaned or taken down? Are there enough resources going into the policing of the Internet? Is there enough regulation? Accusations that governments in Turkey and Myanmar, for example, pressure Facebook to clean opposition material by deeming it “terrorist propaganda” further complicate the landscape.

12:00pm - 12:45pmWHERE DOES FACT-CHECKING COME IN? IS IT EFFECTIVE?Phil Chetwynd, AFP + guest (TBC)

In the post-Trump, post-Brexit world, many believe journalism is now experiencing an existential crisis. In an intimate discussion with AFP’s Editor in Chief, Phil Chetwynd, we will look at how news organizations feel the need to double down on neutrality and quality, and go behind the scenes of a major mainstream news agency to look at fact-checking. AFP is Facebook’s largest fact checking partner, with projects in 12 countries and three new projects scheduled for 2019. We will look at fact checking with particular focus on the European migration story and the incendiary politics surrounding it.

1:10pm to 1:30pm PANEL DISCUSSION – WHAT ARE THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM TRUTH & LIES?Phil

1:30pm BREAK FOR LUNCHOptional session: News Report (with lunch)

1:40pm WELCOME BACK THEME: INNOVATION INOW

9

Moderator Benjamin Zand

We will look at three important strands of innovation that stand out in the “new world” where issues of representation and relevance, the possible redefinition of journalism as activism (or as the launcher of movements) and the struggle for truth above lies, facts above fictions continues.

2:50pm - 3:30pm THE FUTURE OF VOICE“The Future of Voice” will look at the potential and also the limitations of voice activated speakers such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home et al and voice interfaces for news. Presented by Nic Newman of the Reuters Institute, Oxford University, News Xchange delegates will be the first to hear the results of a brand new study completed by Nic and his team.

3:30pm - 4:10pm THE SECOND REVOLUTION OF PODCASTING As a New York magazine piece noted last year, the increasing popularity of audio storytelling owes a lot to technology, as smartphones allow people to consume shows on demand anywhere, and cars increasingly come equipped with satellite radio and Internet-friendly dashboards. A recent report by Edison Research estimated that 64 percent of 12- to 24-year-olds and 37 percent of 25- to 54-year-olds in the United States listened to online radio weekly in 2014. The same year, 30 percent of respondents reported that they had listened to a podcast at least once, with 15 percent indicating that they had listened to a podcast within the last month.

Beyond the obvious convenience factor of listening on the go, what is it that makes some audio storytelling so engaging? And what happens in the brain when someone hears a really compelling story?

Guests will include:• Susie Warhust, Acast• Others TBC

4:10pm - 4:25pm#THECUBEEmmanuelle Saliba, Euronews

The Cube is a newsdesk run by a team of Euronews journalists specialising in social discovery and verification. They comb through social media to find, verify, and debunk stories, in real-time, for audiences on-air and online. What can we learn (and copy at home?!) from this innovative team of journalists?

10

4:25pm THE FUTURE IS…A COCKTAIL! Drinks served in main room, prior to start of AP session – we’ll feature the Robot Rum Punch or something fun like that.

4:35pmARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: WHAT IS IT AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?Produced by The Associated Press

• Albert Choi, Ford Smart Mobility, Ford Motor Company (TBC)• Lisa Gibbs, The Associated Press• Amy Webb, New York University (via prerecorded video)

What is AI? Why should we care about it? A unique opportunity to hear from practitioners, futurists and academics about artificial intelligence and what it means now and in the future. We’ll look at real life media company examples of where AI is already part of workflows and what the technology offers in terms of opportunities to transform journalism, reduce grunt work, know more about our audiences and drive personalization. We will also hear what the media consumption experience might look like in connected cars and, eventually, in driverless ones, and talk about what content creators should be considering producing to meet that need. Think of the movie critic review that plays automatically as your car drives by the cinema or the verified UGC of the crash that’s blocking your highway which is displayed on the smart glass car windscreen. 

5:20pm Q&A for Artificial Intelligence

5:30pm WRAP UP

7:00pm DEPART FOR THE CLOSING CNN PARTY All delegates welcome

11