100 STUDENT JOURNALISTS TWO DAYS OF LEARNING

ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE 5–6 JULY 2018 • EDINBURGH

WELCOME TO SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTWelcome to Edinburgh! We are delighted to welcome you to our beautiful and historic city, and to an experience we hope will enrich your lives. We are looking forward to meeting you over the next few days.

Using the cultural resources of the UK, the British Council creates friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We are particularly committed to creating international opportunities for young people. Future News Worldwide brings these aspirations to life, connecting you with both your peers and the important profession you have chosen.

We hope you enjoy every moment, and depart with new and enduring knowledge, networks and friendships.

Have fun!

Jackie Killeen Acting Director UK Region and Director Scotland, British Council

On behalf of the Future News Worldwide Advisory Board I would like to welcome you all to what promises to be an intense, demanding but also incredibly exciting programme. We are fortunate to have a fantastic line up of speakers and workshop leaders, including some of the most respected names in the media world.

The Future News Worldwide Advisory Board includes journalists, editors and executives from a remarkable range of organisations, including leading Scottish media groups, the British Council, Reuters, BBC, CNN, Google News Initiative and Facebook. All our members have helped shape the programme and their organisations have contributed in many different ways to bringing it to life. Thanks must also go to the Scottish Parliament for allowing us to host our event in such a fantastic environment.

But the most important people here are you. More than 2,500 people applied to join this programme and we have selected 100 of the most outstanding, coming from over 50 countries. We know that we have here some of the highest-calibre young journalism talent in the world. That means a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet and learn from each other and build networks which will last for years. Seize the opportunity and enjoy every moment – and take time to enjoy beautiful Edinburgh, too.

Mark Wood Chair, Future News Worldwide Advisory Board

Just step in and ENJOY the RIDE, it will be over before YOU KNOW IT!!Solange Pompl, UK, FNW2017

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FUTURE NEWS WORLDWIDE 2018 DELEGATESCONGRATULATIONS! You are extremely lucky to be a part of the Future News Worldwide programme. To be chosen among the world’s best young journalists is a great achievement, so congratulations on reaching this milestone.

Your Future News Worldwide journey will be an unforgettable experience; grasp every second of it. We know how important it is to make the most of this incredible opportunity, so to help you get started here’s some of our top tips:• Talk to the conference speakers. Representatives

from the world’s biggest news organisations will be sharing their inspiring stories and chances are, they’ll make you fall in love with journalism all over again.

• Get involved on social media! People around the world will be following the conference online, make sure you join in on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The conference hashtag is #FNW18.

• Talk to as many participants as possible. You will be surrounded by 99 brilliant minds of the future, the ones who were chosen like you because of their passion for journalism. Take advantage of this opportunity and make friends from all over the world. Who knows, one day you might end up working together as colleagues.

• Ask questions throughout the conference, don’t be shy!

• If you have an idea, speak your mind; collaborate with your pals.

• Network, network and network again!• Connect with conference participants through

social networks and keep in touch. Friendship continues no matter the distance.

• Take a walk through the streets of Edinburgh (you will feel like you are in a Harry Potter movie!) The people are friendly and the architecture is amazing.

• Take pictures, make memories.• And don’t forget to buy a souvenir from Scotland.

Good luck!

by Salome Pkhladze, Georgia, on behalf of the Future News Worldwide 2017 alumni

Don’t be shy! SPEAK with as MANY PEOPLE as you can, whether they are other DELEGATES OR SPEAKERS at the conferenceÁine Quinn, UK, FNW2017

EDINBURGHEdinburgh is Scotland’s capital city, and is widely considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. No matter where you stand, you will find yourself surrounded by stunning architecture, history, scenery and culture.

The skyline is dominated by EDINBURGH CASTLE, which looks out onto the city from its position atop Castle Rock. At precisely 13.00 Monday – Saturday you’ll hear the firing of the ONE O’CLOCK GUN ring out across the city, allowing citizens and visitors to check their clocks and watches.

Under the watchful gaze of the Castle the city is divided into the historic Old Town and bustling New Town, which were jointly recognised as a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE in 1995. The Old Town is the original heart of the city, dating back to Medieval times and beyond. This is where you’ll find the town’s oldest attractions, including the ROYAL MILE, ST GILES CATHEDRAL and THE HUB, home of the Edinburgh International Festival. You can walk anywhere in the Old Town and unwittingly follow in the footsteps of kings and queens, invading armies, religious radicals, dissenters, murderers, the condemned or the celebrated.

The neat and ordered grid of the New Town provides an elegant contrast to the labyrinthine design of the Old Town. Its broad streets boast spectacular neoclassical and Georgian architecture, with a wealth of beautiful buildings perfectly preserved since their construction in the 18th and 19th centuries. PRINCES STREET is the city’s main shopping area, whilst the upmarket GEORGE STREET is filled with sophisticated designer shops and chic bars and restaurants. Halfway down Princes Street you’ll also see the towering SCOTT MONUMENT, SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY and PRINCES STREET GARDENS.

For more information visit www.edinburgh.org and check out the Edinburgh Rewards Passport in your conference bag.

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Make the most out of SEEING as much of EDINBURGH as you can – you’ll have blisters, but MEMORIES that you will NEVER FORGETAaisha, South Africa, FNW2017

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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENTOur home for the next two days is the Scottish Parliament building, at the foot of the famous Royal Mile. The Parliament building sits in HOLYROOD PARK in the shadow of the extinct volcano known as ARTHUR’S SEAT.

The building is an icon of modern architecture. Designed by the Spanish architect Enric Miralles, it was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. It has a dedicated media tower and broadcasts live coverage of debates and committee meetings on Parliament TV.

The Scottish Parliament is a key partner of the 2018 programme, and has granted us exclusive access to

areas of the building not normally open to the public. FREE TOURS will be available over lunch on the two days of the conference – check the noticeboard for more information.

Make a point to GET TO KNOW the PEOPLE from somewhere you’re most UNFAMILIAR WITH! Mirva Villa, Finland, FNW2017

TWEET ALONG, don’t be afraid to ASK QUESTIONS AND SPEAK to as many people as possibleSiân Hewitt, UK, FNW2017

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AGENDA4 July Welcome reception:

Scottish Parliament, Holyrood

18.00 Arrival and drinks reception

18.30 Jackie Killeen, Acting Director UK Region and Director Scotland, British Council

18.40 Mark Wood, Chair, Future News Worldwide Advisory Board

18.45 Dinner and networking

20.00 Close

5 July Conference Day 1

08.45 Welcome and housekeeping

09.00 Catherine Gicheru, ICFJ Fellow, Country Lead – Code for Kenya (Live stream)

10.00 Melissa Bell, Publisher, Vox Media

11.00 Mid-morning break

11.20 Lucy Freeman, CEO, Media Legal Defence Initiative (Live stream)

12.20 Lunch

13.20 Workshops: Google News Initiative Facebook and Crowdtangle UK university network

16.50 Close

5 July Networking dinner: The Hub, Royal Mile

19.00 Drinks reception

19.45 Dinner served

21.00 Alessandra Galloni, Global News Editor, Reuters

22.00 Close

6 July Conference Day 2

08.45 Review of day 1

09.00 Carrie Gracie, BBC News Presenter (Live stream)

09.45 Donald Martin, Editor-In-Chief, Newsquest Scotland

10.45 Mid-morning break

11.05 Panel discussion: Exploring the challenges globally chaired by Rebecca Walton, EU Regional Director, British Council

11.50 David Pratt, Foreign Correspondent, Herald Scotland (Live stream)

12.50 Lunch

13.50 Yusuf Omar, Co-founder, Hashtag Our Stories

14.50 Panel discussion: What have we learned?

15.35 Mid-afternoon break

15.55 Mary Hockaday, Controller BBC World Service English

16.40 Closing remarks

17.00 Close

Take lots of NOTES, get involved on Twitter and make the most of those SHORT BREAKS where you get the chance to SPEAK directly to speakers.Liam O’Dell, UK, FNW 2017

SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP LEADSTHURSDAY 5 JULY

Catherine Gicheru is an International Center for Journalists Fellow and country lead for Code for Kenya, a data journalism, civic technology initiative which is part of the pan-African federation, Code for Africa. Gicheru is a veteran journalist with two of the leading media organisations in the region. She was the first woman bureau chief and the first female news editor of the Nation Media Group in the region. She is also the founding editor of the daily newspaper, The Star. Gicheru is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Reuters Institute Journalism fellow at Oxford University, and a 1992 IWMF Courage in Journalism award winner.

Melissa Bell is the Publisher of Vox Media. She is responsible for editorial strategy and development of the company’s networks, including SB Nation, Eater, The Verge, Vox, Curbed, Recode, Racked, and Polygon. Bell is also the co-founder of Vox, Vox Media’s brand known for explaining the news.

Prior to Vox Media, Melissa oversaw digital platforms at the Washington Post, where she was one of The Post’s most-read bloggers and a columnist for the Style section. Before joining The Post, she helped launch Mint, a Wall Street Journal subsidiary in India, where she lived for four years. Melissa has been named one of the Most Connected Women by Marie Claire, Most Powerful Women in Washington by the Washingtonian, and a top media Changemaker by Digiday. She hails from San Diego, California and makes a mean banana-and-cheese quesadilla.

Lucy Freeman is the CEO of Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI), a London-based international non-governmental organisation that provides legal defence to journalists around the world. They currently work in 52 countries, providing emergency financial and technical legal support to individual journalists, pursuing strategic litigation to change laws that undermine media freedom, and providing grants to other organisations to develop national media defence centres. Prior to joining MLDI, Lucy held various roles at Amnesty International, including: Director of Gender, Sexuality and Identity; Africa Deputy Director and Senior Research Adviser.

Gillian Moreton is a psychological therapist at the Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress in NHS Lothian (Edinburgh) specialising in the treatment of adults who have developed traumatic stress reactions. She is involved in training and research in the UK and internationally, and has a particular interest in work with emergency service personnel and other staff with occupational exposure to potentially traumatic stressors. She is a Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe.

Matt Cooke is Head of Partnerships and Training at the Google News Lab - a global team dedicated to working with journalists to provide training, collaborate on industry challenges, and support innovation in the newsroom. The News Lab forms part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

Before joining Google Matt was a reporter and producer at BBC News where he covered a range of stories including London’s preparations for the Olympics, home affairs and multiple elections.

Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism, English and Communication at Bournemouth University (BU). He worked in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters before moving into the academic world in 2005. His academic research focuses on areas of objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on affect, trauma and conflict journalism. He works with the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, chairs the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma in Europe and is a trustee of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.

Tom Felle lectures in print and digital journalism. He joined City University from the University of Limerick, Ireland, where he was Head of Journalism between 2010 and 2013. He was acting director of the MA Newspaper and MA Interactive Journalism programmes during the academic year 2014–15. Prior to that he was a career journalist and worked for a decade as a reporter covering politics and as a regional correspondent at The Independent (Dublin); as Bureau Chief of the Leb News Agency (Beirut); and as Deputy Editor of The Irish Echo (Sydney). He was appointed by the Irish government to sit on a national expert committee examining the Freedom of Information Act in Ireland in 2013.

Sarah Brown is Journalism Training and News Literacy lead in the Facebook Partnerships team. Sarah leads the training programmes and works with news stakeholders, including universities, to promote digital literacy. She has been at Facebook more than two years and was previously at CNN, Al Jazeera and the BBC. Sian Cox-Brooker is Strategic Partner Manager with the News Partnerships team. Sian joined Facebook at the start of the year from Google. Prior to that she worked for Sky and News UK. Joanne Williamson has been with Facebook more than two years and works on providing analytical and operational support for news partners. She has done a lot of work in the last year focusing on Africa and the Middle East.

Carrie Gracie grew up mostly in North East Scotland and set up a restaurant before doing a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. She spent a year teaching in two Chinese universities and then built a small film business, before joining the BBC in 1987 as a trainee producer. She went back to China as the BBC’s Beijing reporter in the early 1990s and served as China correspondent and Beijing bureau chief until 1999 when she returned to the UK to focus on presenting. For several years she anchored the morning slot on the BBC News Channel and hosted the weekly BBC World Service programme The Interview. In April 2014, she took up a newly-created post as BBC China Editor and has since covered many news stories in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She has also made documentaries about China for television and radio, winning prizes including a Peabody and an Emmy. In January 2018, she left her post as BBC China Editor in protest at unequal pay. She published an open letter to BBC audiences on the subject and appeared before a parliamentary select committee. She has since returned to BBC HQ as a news presenter and continues to campaign for an equal, fair and transparent pay structure.

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Donald Martin is an award-winning editor, with more than 25 years’ experience editing national, regional, Sunday, daily and weekly titles across the UK. Currently Editor of The Herald and the Evening Times and Editor-in-Chief at Newsquest Scotland, he oversees a portfolio of 26 Scottish titles including the Sunday Herald and The National; the Greenock Telegraph and weekly titles in Fife and Forth Valley, Lothians and Borders, North and South Clyde, Ayrshire, plus the Impartial Reporter in Ireland. He won his first editorship at the age of 24, launching the Edinburgh and Lothians Post. Donald also serves on the UK boards of the Society of Editors and the National Council for Training of Journalists. He is the Scottish media representative on the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

David Pratt is a journalist, photographer, broadcaster and editor with 30 years’ experience of covering foreign affairs. Specialist areas include the Arab and Islamic world, Sub-Saharan Africa, conflict, security and humanitarian issues. He is currently Contributing Foreign Editor with The Herald/Sunday Herald and a regular contributor to the BBC. He was named Journalist of the Year (2012) in the Scottish Press Awards. He has also twice been named Reporter of the Year (2012 and 2013) and twice Feature Writer of the Year (2014 and 2017). He is a five-times finalist in the Amnesty International Media Awards for human rights reporting.

Mary Hockaday joined the BBC as a BBC World Service Production trainee. In the early 1990s she was based in Prague as correspondent for the BBC and The Independent, covering post-communist Czechoslovakia. She reported, presented and edited World Service news programmes, becoming Editor of BBC World Service News and Current Affairs from 2001 to 2006. Under her leadership the department won a special Sony Gold award in recognition of its 9/11 coverage.

Mary worked as Deputy Head of BBC Radio News and then Head of the new multi-platform BBC Newsroom, where she championed the BBC’s digital and mobile strategy. She became Controller, BBC World Service English in October 2014 and is driving a radio and digital strategy forward to reach new audiences, hungry for impartial, contemporary, global journalism

Yusuf Omar is a multi-award winning journalist and co-founder of Hashtag Our Stories, a TEDx speaker, former CNN Senior Social Media Reporter on Snapchat and former Mobile Editor at the Hindustan Times in India where he empowered 750 journalists to tell stories with their phones. He has been a foreign correspondent with just his phone since 2010 and covered the Syrian civil war. At Hashtag Our Stories, he’s empowering mobile video storytelling communities around the world, creating shows in every language.

EVENT SPONSORS PARTNERS British Council, BBC, CNN, Facebook, Google News Initiative, Reuters, STV, The Herald, The Scottish Parliament, UK Schools of Journalism

DELEGATESNatassia Chrysanthos AustraliaTiffanie Turnbull AustraliaNorma Hilton BangladeshMyat Moe Khaing BangladeshJawwad Shadman Siddique BangladeshBokang Kgwarapi BotswanaMalebogo Ashley Phillip BotswanaYael Berman Szaniecki BrazilGiovana Faria BrazilMila Cherneva BulgariaTihomira Doncheva BulgariaAndrew Jeffrey CanadaYang Chen ChinaJian Lin ChinaMoises Gomez Henriquez ColombiaAngélica Castro Camacho Costa RicaKarla Vidović CroatiaJohn Sebastian Mendoza Torres EcuadorNoura Tamim EgyptMereoni Mili FijiKoroi Tadulala FijiFangyuan Cai FranceMarie Susanne Menke GermanySolveig Paulsen GermanyKwasi Asiedu GhanaWilliam Boateng GhanaNimat Emefa Tijani GhanaMagdalini Gkogkou GreeceVasilleios Servetas GreeceAlexandra Béni HungaryPreethi Sagar IndiaFahri Hilmi IndonesiaIka Yuliana IndonesiaBianca Fauziah Yusup IndonesiaMohammed Dawoodi IraqGrace Kieran IrelandShereen Nanish JordanAigyuzel Kadir KazakhstanMingu Cho Korea, Republic ofTaeksoo Chun Korea, Republic ofBora Lee Korea, Republic ofHelen Zein Eddine LebanonRabson Kondowe MalawiAndrea Rossitto MaltaMehryne Annooar MauritiusNashreen Edoobaccus MauritiusAmine Belfatmi MoroccoReeti K.C. NepalNick de Jager Netherlands

Ebenezar Wikina NigeriaAzhar Sulaiman Al Shamli OmanMuhammad Adnan PakistanUrooj Fatima PakistanMakhdoom Muhammad Shahab-ud-Din PakistanSabrin Falhi QatarSalsabeel Zeineddin QatarRuxandra Patrascu Maian RomaniaAnca Coman RomaniaIvana Heckova SlovakiaLynnissha Bokivatu Runa Solomon IslandsEva Chipa South AfricaMishka Wazar South AfricaCong Hui Chen Pan SpainMarta Ramírez Cano SpainAllende Solaun SpainLina Yassin SudanKrissadaporn Boonthrawanna ThailandNutthanicha Chuanopparat ThailandChouaib Elhajjaji TunisiaJhon Faiber Charry Murcia TurkeyInna Dyban UkraineAnna Romandash UkraineJake Williamson United KingdomCleo Anderson United KingdomZahra Baz United KingdomAilean Beaton United KingdomRaffaella Carter United KingdomGeorge Caulton United KingdomFrankie Crossley United KingdomShannon Dean United KingdomDan Dove United KingdomChiara Fiorillo United KingdomJenna Gardiner United KingdomJake Graham United KingdomAshleigh Hanna United KingdomRoy Manuell United KingdomJamie McDonald United KingdomJonathan Peters United KingdomAndrew Sinclair United KingdomSaskia Anna Solomon United KingdomJames Walker United KingdomKatie Williams United KingdomShang Xin United KingdomCatherine Stolz United StatesJosefina Mösle UruguayFarai Shawn Matiashe ZimbabweDebra Ndlovu Zimbabwe