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Need to take viral situations much more seriously in the future

By Dr. Hassan Humeida University of Kiel, Germany Associate Member of AJA BERLIN: The World Journalists’ Conference for 2020 took place on September 14-16 2020 in the press center in Seoul, South Korea. Around 85 journalists from 53 countries took part in this conference. During the three-day event, the…
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Politics

Fake News & the Future of Journalism: Al Jazeera Channel – a case study

Ashraf Aboul-Yazid Dali, Egypt President, Asia Journalists Association President, The Silk Road Literature Series CAIRO: This year’s World Journalists Conference (WJC 2020), held online due to travel restrictions imposed by COVID-19, was a good opportunity to highlight how fake news not only meant posting, publishing or broadcasting fake news,…
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85 journalists from 53 countries exchange views on global issues at WJC 2020

By Alireza Bahrami Head of Arts and Culture, ISNA, Iran AsiaN Contributor TEHRAN: The 8th Annual World Conference of Journalists (WJC 2020) in South Korea was held online this year due to travel restrictions due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The three-day conference (September 14-16) had three main topics that…
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Society

Journalism’s dilemma in the Digital Age

By Eddy Suprapto Contributor AsiaN JAKARTA: The world is moving rapidly leaving time and technology included in the world of media. Since the discovery of printing press in 1450 by Johanner Genfleish zur Laden zum Gutenberg, the printing world has been coloring the media. The Gutenberg press has become a…
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Politics

Let the Korean nation reunite

By Nasir Aijaz TheAsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: Today we are discussing the 70th anniversary of the Korean War that divided a nation described by the Great Poet of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore as ‘The Future Lamp of the Asia’. For hundreds of years, Korea had been a battleground for rival nations, but…
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Society

Covid-19 success stories shared at World Journalists Conference

By Lan Cu dtinews.vn HANOI: Many success stories in the fight against coronavirus were shared on the second day of the World Journalists Conference 2020 held on September 14-16. While many areas in the world are still struggling to curb the virus spread which resulted in the three-day conference being…
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Society

Fake news and the future of journalism: The case of Lebanon

By Ghena Halik Laha Magazine & Asia N – Lebanon BEIRUT: Participating in the World Journalists Conference (WJC) 2020 was an opportunity to listen to reports by senior South Korean officials and seasoned journalists about three themes – Fake news and the future of journalism, global responses to COVID-19 and the 70th…
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Society

WJC2020 discusses peace, conflicts in Korean Peninsula

By Chhay Sophal Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia: The World Journalists Conference 2020 on Wednesday actively debated on peace and possible war in the Korean Peninsula due to chronic conflicts between North Korea and the United States. The online conference conducted by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) brought about 100…
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Society

Importance of peace in Korea and everywhere else – A presentation

Pooneh Nedai Editor-in-chief of Shokaran magazine TEHRAN: Peace, or the lack of it, has a significant importance in my life and the situation in my country Iran, which has enabled me to understand well the situation in the Korean Peninsula after it was divided into South Korea and North Korea…
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Society

Overview of an online forum

By Pooneh Nedai Editor in Chief of Shokaran Magazine TEHRAN: We had a fruitful Zoom gathering in World Journalist Forum established in Seoul by the Journalists Association of Korea (JAK). First it was not easy to make a real sense for such an online conference, but when I met all…
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