Colloquium – M100 SANSSOUCI COLLOQUIUM

Ali Aslan

TV Presenter, Moderator, Journalist

Stephan-Andreas Casdorff

Publisher
Der Tagesspiegel
Germany

Nikos Chrysoloras

Bureau Chief in Brussels
Bloomberg News
Belgium

Kai Diekmann

Founder and shareholder
Deutsche Fondsgesellschaft (DFG) and Storymachine
Berlin

Can Dündar

Editor-in-Chief
Özgürüz
Germany

Astrid Frohloff

TV Presenter and Journalist
ARD/rbb
Berlin

Jann Jakobs

former Lord Mayor
State Capital of Potsdam

Christoph Lanz

Head of Board
Thomson Media
Germany

Rick Noack

Foreign Affairs Reporter
The Washington Post
Germany

Natalie Nougayrède

Member of the Editorial Board and columnist
The Guardian
England

Dr. Leonard Novy

Co-Director
Institute for Media and Communication Policy
Germany

Hella Pick

Senior Consultant
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
England

Dr. Christian Rainer

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Profil
Austria

Dagmar Rosenfeld

Editor-in-Chief
Die Welt
Germany

Sabine Schicketanz

Editor-in-Chief
Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten
Germany

Matthias Spielkamp

Founder and Managing Director
AlgorithmWatch
Berlin

Mary Wilkinson

Head of Editorial Content
BBC World News
UK

I am very moved, especially because I was not expecting to hear these words, which are like an embrace for me. So I want to thank you for this award, for the incredibly moving words of Giovanni di Lorenzo, for this wonderful sky that has welcomed me to Potsdam, and also to thank the Federal Chancellor for her touching words, and for her encouraging presence. Because the awareness raised heartens me a lot more than words. Roberto Saviano, M100 Media Award laureate 2016
It is a great honour for me to be here and receive this great price. It's a very big day for me. I thank Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dr. Joachim Gauck for the kind and strong words, and for their appreciation. Thank you, I will never forget this day! Kurt Westergaard, danish cartoonist, M100 Media Award laureate 2010
At the same time, today’s prize is an appeal to all persons who hold positions of responsibility in governments, in culture and in the media: be steadfast, value-oriented and also COURAGEOUS when irresponsible persons and powers undermine or relativise our values of freedom. It is a virtue to yield to a convincing argument, but it is cowardice to yield to a threat from enemies of freedom. Joachim Gauck in his laudation to Kurt Westergaard, 2010
I receive [this award] with an immense joy, happiness and humility also, because I think by being with you today here, I am receiving this price in the name of those who are still suffering in the jungle of Colombia and of those in the world that are living in similar conditions and who cannot speak for themselves freely. Ingrid Betancourt, M100 Media Award laureate 2008
But I have to say that in our modern society the media has a very, very particular responsibility, also for the European idea. And I hope that the event today – and the events which will follow – will help us to communicate better, to explain better and to convince people that Europe – and acknowledging all the problems, the mistakes and the deficits – […] that at the end of the day the idea of European integration is the best idea that we have ever developed in our history. Günther Verheugen, former EU-Commissioner, in his keynote speech 2005

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