29 September 2023. 70 participants from Europe, the USA and countries from the Global South, 20 young journalists from 14 European countries, plus observers and reporting journalists – and in the evening a stirring and moving presentation of the M100 Media Award to the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran: that was the 19th M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, which took place on 14 September at the Orangerie Sanssouci in Potsdam.
The state of democracy, the reasons for the crisis of confidence in democratic systems worldwide and the simultaneous rise of autocratic governments, the impact of artificial intelligence on media and society, disinformation and propaganda, and EU enlargement were discussed in several plenary sessions and strategic working groups.
Click here for a comprehensive summary of the day and evening, with links to the opening keynote by Indian bestselling author Pankaj Mishra and numerous interviews with participants, and here to watch the recording of the livestream of the M100 Media Awards ceremony.