Keynote and Invited Speakers
We are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the 2016 WJEC:
Divina Frau-Meigs
Divinia Frau-Meigs is professor of media sociology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. She is a specialist of media and information literacy as well as a researcher in media uses and practices of young people. As of 2013, she holds the UNESCO chair for “savoir-devenir / forwardance in sustainable digital development”. She is also the director of CLEMI (Centre de Liaison de l’Education aux Médias et à l’Information), with the French ministry of education. Website: http://www.divina-frau-meigs.fr/ Blog: medias-matrices.net/blog |
Kalafi Moala
Kalafi Moala is publisher and managing director of the Taimi Media Network in Nuku'alofa, Tonga.
He has beern a longtime campaigner for media freedom in the Pacific region and is author of the books Island Kingdom Strikes Back and In Search of the Friendly Islands.
After being a founding chair of the New Zealand-based Pacific Islands Media Network (PIMA), he was elected deputy chair of the Samoa-based Pasifik Media Association (PasiMA), an organisation he co-founded.
Stephen D. Reese
Stephen D. Reese has been on the University of Texas at Austin faculty since 1982, where he is now the Jesse H. Jones Professor of Journalism. His teaching there has included critical thinking for journalists, graduate seminars in media theory and research, and a freshman signature course, “Understanding 9/11.” He has been Director of the School of Journalism and currently is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Moody College of Communication.
His research focuses on questions relating to press performance, including the sociology of news, media framing of public issues, and the globalization of journalism. Along with some 50 articles and book chapters, Reese is co-author with Pamela Shoemaker of Mediating the Message in the 21st Century: A Media Sociology Perspective (Routledge, 2014), a follow-up volume to its predecessor, named by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly as one of the "significant journalism and communication books" of the 20th century. His edited volume, Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and our Understanding of the Social World (Erlbaum, 2001), has been widely cited, and his most recent edited volume (with Wenhong Chen), is Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement (Routledge, 2015).
Prof. Reese served as head of the Political Communication division of the International Communication Association and held major leadership positions with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which awarded him the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for outstanding achievement in research, teaching and public service. He has taught for several summers at the Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change, lectured at universities in China, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and Finland, and was Kurt Baschwitz Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He received his B.A. at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which he received the Harold L. Nelson Award in 2015 for distinguished contribution to research and education in journalism and mass communication.
Stephen D. Reese has been on the University of Texas at Austin faculty since 1982, where he is now the Jesse H. Jones Professor of Journalism. His teaching there has included critical thinking for journalists, graduate seminars in media theory and research, and a freshman signature course, “Understanding 9/11.” He has been Director of the School of Journalism and currently is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Moody College of Communication.
His research focuses on questions relating to press performance, including the sociology of news, media framing of public issues, and the globalization of journalism. Along with some 50 articles and book chapters, Reese is co-author with Pamela Shoemaker of Mediating the Message in the 21st Century: A Media Sociology Perspective (Routledge, 2014), a follow-up volume to its predecessor, named by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly as one of the "significant journalism and communication books" of the 20th century. His edited volume, Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and our Understanding of the Social World (Erlbaum, 2001), has been widely cited, and his most recent edited volume (with Wenhong Chen), is Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement (Routledge, 2015).
Prof. Reese served as head of the Political Communication division of the International Communication Association and held major leadership positions with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which awarded him the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for outstanding achievement in research, teaching and public service. He has taught for several summers at the Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change, lectured at universities in China, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Germany, and Finland, and was Kurt Baschwitz Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He received his B.A. at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which he received the Harold L. Nelson Award in 2015 for distinguished contribution to research and education in journalism and mass communication.
Simon Cottle
Professor Simon Cottle was Head of School (JOMEC), School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University (2013-2015) and formerly Head of the Media and Communications program, University of Melbourne. He is the author of many books on media, globalization and the communication conflicts, crises and catastrophes.Most recently these include Mediatized Conflicts (2006), Global Crisis Reporting (2009), Transnational Protests and the Media (ed. with L. Lester)(2011), Disasters and the Media (with M. Pantti and K. Wahl-Jorgensen) (2012), Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (ed. with G. Cooper)(2015) and Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security (with R. Sambrook and N. Mosdell). He is Series Editor for the Global Crises and Media Series for the publisher Peter Lang.
Professor Simon Cottle was Head of School (JOMEC), School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University (2013-2015) and formerly Head of the Media and Communications program, University of Melbourne. He is the author of many books on media, globalization and the communication conflicts, crises and catastrophes.Most recently these include Mediatized Conflicts (2006), Global Crisis Reporting (2009), Transnational Protests and the Media (ed. with L. Lester)(2011), Disasters and the Media (with M. Pantti and K. Wahl-Jorgensen) (2012), Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (ed. with G. Cooper)(2015) and Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security (with R. Sambrook and N. Mosdell). He is Series Editor for the Global Crises and Media Series for the publisher Peter Lang.
Peter Bale
Peter Bale joined the Center in February 2015 after three years as Vice President and General Manager of Digital at CNN International, where he ran CNN.com and other digital products outside the United States. The International edition of the CNN site recorded double-digit growth in users, engagement and revenue during his tenure heading teams in Atlanta, London, Dubai and Hong Kong. Bale is a frequent speaker on media and the impact of the internet on journalism. He is on the board of the Global Editors Network and has been a regular presenter for Speakers for Schools, a British nonprofit aimed at inspiring young people. A Reuters correspondent and editor for 15 years, Bale worked with the international news agency in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and held senior roles in London. He left Reuters to pursue internet journalism and was a founder of FTMarketWatch, an award-winning site from the Financial Times and MarketWatch. He was later Online Editorial Director of The Times and The Sunday Times in London. He also spent more than four years at Microsoft, where he was Editorial Director of MSN in the UK and then International Programming Director, responsible for content on more than 40 MSN sites around the world. He is a New Zealander who started in journalism at Suburban Newspapers in Auckland and then worked at the Wairarapa Times-Age and The Evening Post before leaving New Zealand to join Reuters.
Peter Bale joined the Center in February 2015 after three years as Vice President and General Manager of Digital at CNN International, where he ran CNN.com and other digital products outside the United States. The International edition of the CNN site recorded double-digit growth in users, engagement and revenue during his tenure heading teams in Atlanta, London, Dubai and Hong Kong. Bale is a frequent speaker on media and the impact of the internet on journalism. He is on the board of the Global Editors Network and has been a regular presenter for Speakers for Schools, a British nonprofit aimed at inspiring young people. A Reuters correspondent and editor for 15 years, Bale worked with the international news agency in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and held senior roles in London. He left Reuters to pursue internet journalism and was a founder of FTMarketWatch, an award-winning site from the Financial Times and MarketWatch. He was later Online Editorial Director of The Times and The Sunday Times in London. He also spent more than four years at Microsoft, where he was Editorial Director of MSN in the UK and then International Programming Director, responsible for content on more than 40 MSN sites around the world. He is a New Zealander who started in journalism at Suburban Newspapers in Auckland and then worked at the Wairarapa Times-Age and The Evening Post before leaving New Zealand to join Reuters.