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Dear guest,
we invite you to participate the media conference on the EU in the European
Union House in Tallinn on 29 October. The contributors are the top media
experts from both Estonia and Finland. If you wish to take part in the
discussions, please register at Irma.Kaljulaid@ec.europa.eu.
Please find below the programme. The working languages of the conference are
Estonian and English.
Media and the EU
Venue: European House in Tallinn (Rävala 4)
Time: 29 October 10.00–15.30
Working languages: Estonian and English
Program
10.00 – Morning Coffee
10.30 – Welcome by the European Commission Representation and the European
Parliament Information Office
10.40 - Estonian Media and the EU Economic Agenda: What is Missing and Why?
Anvar Samost, BNS Group CEO
11.00 – EU in the eyes of those living in Estonia, Raul
Rebane, Media Expert
11.30 – European Institutions in the Social Media: the Case of the European
Parliament; Kristiina Randmaa - Web editor of the European
Parliament's website
11.50-12.00 – Coffee Break
12.00 – The Means of a Small State to Cover the EU: the Finnish Experience,
Jarmo Mäkelä, YLE
12.30 – The EU in Estonian Media, Tiit Hennoste, Tartu
University
13.00 – 13. 15 – Coffee break
13. 15 – 14. 15 – The Future of the EU and the Media. Will the EU Still Be
Making Headlines in the Years to Come?
Panel discussion lead by Erkki Bahovski, Press Officer of the ECR in Tallinn.
Panellists : Anvar Samost, Tiit Hennoste, Raul Rebane, Jarmo Mäkelä
14.15.-15.30 – lunch
Mr Raul REBANE: a journalist, communication consultant
and media analyst. He has worked as a reporter and the chief of program at the
Estonian national TV station ETV and also been a copywriter. In 2000 he called
together a team of experts "to help a simple country boy, Gerd Kanter to
become an Olympic Champion" And he (they) succeeded.
Mr Tiit HENNOSTE: a research fellow - has taught news, column
and opinion writing to journalism students at Tartu University for years. He
was a guest professor at the Helsinki University in Finland. He has published
several articles analyzing Twitter and Facebook from the point of view of their
impact on media and journalism. He has been frequently called to speak to
newspaper journalists. Recently he published a book outlining the basic
developments of the Estonian journalism since regaining the independence.
Mr Jarmo MÄKELÄ: editor of foreign news in the Finnish Public
Broadcasting (YLE). He has worked in Brussels and would elaborate on the
possibilities and means of a small country when covering the “big” EU issues.
His columns on foreign affairs appear also in the Estonian largest daily
Postimees.
Mr Anvar SAMOST: (Baltic News Service Estonia, CEO) is a
well-known Estonian media personality and journalist who has also been
publishing columns in the largest national daily Postimees and the second
largest national daily Eesti Päevaleht. Mr Samost is one of the hosts in the
weekly radio program "Olukorrast riigis" (State of the Nation) which
has proved to be very popular over the years.
Ms Kristiina RANDMAA: Web editor of the European Parliament's
website. Graduated from the University of Tartu as a journalist, also studied
political science and communication in Copenhagen University and Danish School
of Journalism in Denmark. After working for business daily Äripäev as a
reporter started her career at the European Parliament Communication
Directorate as a speaker for visitor groups, then PR assistant and since 2006
as a web writer for the EP website's Estonian version.
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Lisainfo:
Euroopa Komisjoni Esindus Eestis
Erkki Bahovski
telefon: 6 26 44 23; 51 807 67
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