Strasbourg Agora

With Paola Condemayta (BE), Head of Communications and Operations at JournalismFund Europe; Ieva Pukite (LT), Journalist for Latviesi.com and member of the European Journalism Conference (Assises européennes du Journalisme) correspondents’ network and Lucie Sýkorová (CZ), Freelance Journalist, Co-founder of the Czech Association of Regional Journalists, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), and member of the European Journalism Conference correspondents’ network.

Moderated by Carine Feix, Journalist for ICI Alsace TV.

Pampa Garcia Molina, Founder of the Science Media Center and member of the European Journalism Conference correspondents’ network ; Elena Tarifa, Vice-general Secretary of FeSP’s (Federación de Sindicatos de Periodistas) and Chair of the GENDEG (Gender and Diversity) experts group by the EFJ (European Federation of Journalists) Moderated by Javier Villa Garcia, Coordinator of Arte

16h15 – 17h30 With Clotilde Berlencourt (FR), project manager at the Bayard Endowment Fund, in charge of the “Faut qu’on parle” initiative ; Vladimira Dorčova Valtner (SE/SK), Founder and Editor-in-chief of Storytellers.rs, and Luciana Maruta (PO), Journalist at Divergente Moderated by Léa Chamboncel, journalist and creator of Popol Media.

With Vincent Berthier (FR), Head of the Technology and Journalism Desk at Reporters Without Borders (RSF); Paul Radu (RO), co-founder of the Journalism Cloud Alliance; and Katharina Schell (AT), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the news agency APA.

Moderated by Thomas Seymat, Head of Digital News and Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Arte.

With Dr. Bette Dam (NL), Investigative Journalist and Lecturer at Sciences Po ; Julius Fintelmann (DE), editor-in-chief of The European Correspondent ; Alexander Query (FR), Ukraine correspondent & Line Vaaben (DK), Head of the “Existential” desk at Politiken.

With Clemens Gellekum (DE), Communications and External Relations Officer at Lie Detectors; Maarit Jaakola (SE), Co-Director of Nordicom (University of Gothenburg) and representative of Northern European organizations at the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) and Frederik Marain (BE), Head of the AI ​​task force at the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA).

Moderated by Carine Feix, Journalist for ICI Alsace TV.

Registration is required. With Raphaëlle Aubert (FR), Investigative Journalist at Le Monde and Winner of the 2025 Louise Weiss Prize for her collaborative investigation “Green to Grey”; Pampa García Molina (ES), Science Journalist, Coordinator of the Science Media Center, and member of the European Journalism Conference (Assises européennes du Journalisme) correspondents’ network; and Thibault Quéré (FR), “Droit à l’Info” (Right to Information) Coordinator for QuotaClimat.

The evening is organized with the support of ADEME and moderated by Virginie Herz, Managing editor, Head of the reporters Department France 24 and a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.

With Dr. Marius Dragomir (RO), Director of the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC); Natalia Gorščak (SL), Chair of the Board of RTV Slovenia; Tove Mÿllari (FI), AI Innovation Lead at Yle; and Nathalie Sonnac (FR), Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at Paris Panthéon-Assas University.

Moderated by Jamie Smith-Maillet (UK), Journalist for ARTE.

Opening by Jesús Carmona (EU), Director of the Media Directorate, European Parliament ; with Kian Badrnejad (DE), Head of Partnerships, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) ; Judit Bayer (HU), Chair of the Hungarian Independent Public Media Board ; Natalija Gorščak (SI), Chair of the Management Board, RTV Slovenija ; Carolin Ollivier (FR/DE), Editor-in-Chief of ARTE Journal and Head of News at ARTE ; Quino Petit (ES), Director of Communications and External Relations, EL PAÍS (tbc) ; Katharina Schell (AT), Editor-in-Chief, Austria Presse Agentur (APA) ; Bartosz Wieliński (PL), Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta Wyborcza

With Judit Bayer, Chair of the Hungarian Independent Public Media Board; David Kardos, Advocacy Director at the Center for Sustainable Media (CSM) and an expert on European policy and media freedom; Daniel Pszenny, Hungary correspondent for Courrier d’Europe Centrale; and Viktoria Serdült, journalist at HVG Online, covering domestic politics, social affairs, and the EU.