Thursday, March 24, 2011

Male power players want to close the gender gap


Today was the day for the men to step forward and talk about why it is important to close the gender gap and why journalism has an important role to play for democracy. “The only hope for change is through the media.” said philanthropist Howard G. Buffet from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. He even thought that advocacy journalism could have its place concerning these issues. Editor-in Chief and Co-founder of Bloomberg News, Matt Winkler agreed on that, in terms of journalists duty to cover the great challenges is society. At the same time journalism need more than ever to be accurate, credible and accountable.

Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen talked about objectivity vs transparency and he thought that the latter will be the key for future journalism. He also hoped that technology might solve some of problems with inaccurate facts on the web as well as coming up with business models that will make local journalism more profitable.

All three men were quite optimistic about the future. " I am a believer", said Howard G Buffett who also said that his foundation will do more on these issues, especially on an international level.

Watch and listen to the panel here.


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