Event Reports

Adenauer Media Leaders Academy 2021

The Adenauer Media Leaders Academy, following the Adenauer Fall School in the pre-pandemic years, was held as an online networking event for Adenauer Fellowship students and alumni consisting of two networking sessions, one each day, four presentations with Q&As, and one Open Discussion per day.

Virtual Data Workshop Afghanistan - Data cleaning, online verification and fact-checking

This online workshop is for media practitioners based in Afghanistan - to imbue confidence in attendees, to harness the power of data and inspire their narratives and voices to the rest of the world.

Splice Beta Online 2020

Amidst the numerous disruptions to the media industry, we brought together the movers and players who are riding atop the wave of disruption.

Mobile Journalism Conference Asia 2020

The future of mojo is in Asia!

More than 750 people from over 63 countries have joined the world’s first virtual mobile journalism conference. The Mobile Journalism (MOJO) Conference Asia 2020 pivoted from a planned physical event to the online environment due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It combined live and online sessions, webinars and master classes, co-created with MOJO experts from worldwide.

Mobile Journalism Conference Asia 2019

This was the first ever Mobile Journalism Conference in Asia - a great event to network and learn from like-minded journalists. Over 250 reporters and academics from 31 countries came together in Bangkok, Thailand to exchange their ideas and skills on mobile reporting.

Media Programme publishes Mobile Journalism Manual

Multimedia journalists from all over Asia have produced a manual about mobile journalism. The online publication offers insights into this new storytelling method, explaining how reporters and newsrooms can produce good video reports by just using their phone.

Asia News Network begrüßt Phnom Penh Post

Führende englisch-sprachige Tageszeitung Kambodschas 23. Mitglied

Kambodschas führende englisch-sprachige Tageszeitung, die Phnom Penh Post, ist dem von der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) geförderten Asia News Network (ANN) beigetreten. Die Geschäftsführer von ANN, Pana Janviroj, und Alex Odom (Phnom Penh Post) unterschrieben am Donnerstag einen entsprechenden Vertrag. Der Leiter des KAS Medienprogramms Asien, Torben Stephan, bestätigte die Vereinbarung mit seiner Unterschrift.

News Planning in Digital Newsrooms

ANN’s Lessons From Previous Collaboration Efforts and Steps Moving Forward

16 editors of the Asia News Network (ANN) – longstanding partner of the KAS Media Programme Asia – gathered in Singapore to discuss future ideas to ensure a smoother collaboration process. They were joined by Michael Ludewig, Managing Editor of the Swiss Blick Group, who provided an outsider’s perspective through his workshop.

Asia’s Investigative Journalists meet in Nepal

Walter „Robby“ Robinson was the star of Uncovering Asia, the largest conference for investigative journalism in Asia. 370 journalists from 50 countries travelled to Kathmandu to attend the event and every single one wanted a selfie with the 70-year-old. The conference is hosted biennially by the KAS Media Programme Asia in cooperation with the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).

Political strategists meet for the E-lection Bridge in Colombo

Social Media is growing very important for election campaigns in Asia and the Pacific, while populists increasingly take influence. This is the result of the E-lection Bridge Asia-Pacific in 2016 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where we held a three-day roundtable. We invited electoral campaign managers and strategists from twelve countries in the Asian and Pacific region.