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No M100 Sanssouci Colloquium 2025 – Future uncertain

The 20th edition of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, which took place last September under the title ‘Democracy under Attack. Disinformation Campaigns, AI and the Role of the Media in the 2024 Super Election Year’, was the last M100 Sanssouci Colloquium for the time being.

Since the financing of the renowned international media conference has become increasingly difficult in recent years and now Potsdam, as the main sponsor, has also stopped financing, the organisers have decided to suspend the conference this year. Whether there will be a new edition under new management and perhaps at a different location has not yet been decided.

For the 20th anniversary, we have created a journal that also places the history of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and the awardees of the M100 Media Award in a contemporary historical context. You can download the richly illustrated magazine with quotations from the most important speeches and contributions here.

Summary of the 20th M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

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Democracy under Attack. Disinformation Campaigns, AI and the Role of the Media in the 2024 Super Election Year

Thursday, 12 September 2024, Orangery Sanssouci, Potsdam

On 12 September, the 20th M100 Sanssouci Colloquium came to a successful close. The highlight was the presentation of the M100 Media Award to Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, President of the Republic of Kosovo, and Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
The conference was attended by some 80 journalists and representatives of think tanks and political organisations from across Europe and the US, as well as 19 young journalists from 17 European countries and 20 observers. In the late afternoon, a Special Talk in cooperation with POLITICO and the presentation of the M100 Media Award took place.
Impressions and results of the conference, the M100 Young European Journalists Workshop and the M100 Media Award were shared mainly on LinkedIn.
A detailed summary can be found here.

Special Talk “In the Shadow of the US Elections” with POLITICO

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24 September 2024. The day after the final TV debate between the two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, four journalists discussed possible scenarios for the US at the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium: Adam Jasser (Deputy Director for News, TVP World, Poland), Tanit Koch (Journalist, The New European, Germany), Jakob Hanke Vela (Senior Correspondent, POLITICO) and Olga Rudenko (Editor-in-Chief, The Kyiv Independent, Ukraine). The discussion took place in cooperation with POLITICO and was moderated by Jürgen Klöckner, Head of Pros and Senior Political Reporter, POLITICO Germany. Two of the central questions were what a possible victory of President Trump or President Harris would mean for Ukraine and how Ukraine views the US elections.