Leading media representatives and industry experts will discuss how war journalism is changing, whether objectivity is possible when covering conflicts, whether artificial intelligence can defeat fake news, and other problems of modern media.
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The RT conference program includes sessions:
- Profession “military commander”: is the risk justified
The winners of the second Khaled Al-Khatyb RT International Prize - journalists Fausto Biloslavo (Italy), Amitabh Revi (India), Anton Stepanenko (Russia) - as well as war correspondent Alexander Kots will talk about the challenges that military commanders face today.
The moderator is the head of the Middle East Bureau of RT Channel Paul Slier, who covered the military conflicts in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Israel and Ukraine.
- Boiling point: media and conflicts in society
State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, deputy chairman of the committee on international affairs, war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny, head of the RT France television channel Ksenia Fedorova and deputy editor-in-chief of RT Anna Belkina will discuss how the media cover protests and whether they can combat injustice.
The moderator is Anna Knishenko, war correspondent and presenter of RT Arabic, who worked in Syria and Ukraine.
- True or fake: how to verify information from hot spots
Professor, Specialist in Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics and Theory of Consciousness, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education Tatyana Chernigovskaya, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Digital and Technological Development Dmitry Peskov, War Correspondent Alexei Samoletov and Head of the International Video Agency RUPTLY Dinara Toktosunova will talk about ways to verify video from hot spots , as well as discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on journalism and the problems of the digital world.
Moderator - Director of Communications and Public Relations, MIA Russia Today Peter Lidov-Petrovsky.
RT MEDIA TALK “ In the Conflict Zone: Risks and Responsibilities of Journalists ” will be held on October 2 in Moscow.
Venue: HALL ACCEPT , Prospect Mira, d.36, p. 1. Beginning at 10:30.
RT MEDIA TALK conference will summarize the results of the Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards 2019, established by the television channel in memory of the journalist Khaled al-Khatib who died in Syria, who collaborated with RT Arabic. Khaled came under fire from the IG * terrorists in the Syrian province of Homs on July 30, 2017. In his reports, he covered the battles of Syrian government forces with militants. Khaled al-Khatib was 25 years old. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the posthumous rewarding of a journalist with the For Courage medal, which was presented to his family at the first Khaled Alkhateb International Memorial Awards ceremony in 2018.
* “Islamic State” (ISIS, ISIS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.