The Worldview Address: Wadah Khanfar, Director General, Al Jazeera Networks
Date: 24 August 2008
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: The Fintry
Producer: Matt Baker, Head of Press & Publicity, Channel 4
Chair: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Newscaster, Channel 4 News
Speaker: Wadah Khanfar, Director General , Al Jazeera Networks
Summary
Wadah Khanfar, the Director General of Al Jazeera Network will discuss the international news media and its increased obsession with superficial and ‘immediate' reporting in this year's Worldview Address. He will question whether the profession is in need of a serious overhaul. Khanfar believes there is a "growing disinterest in the news and its analysis" and will offer a prescription for how international journalism needs to be overhauled, in particular the need to consider the social, cultural and historical dynamics of societies when reporting conflict.
08Worldview
