M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and M100 Media Award 2023

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“I have seen more horrors than I could have ever imagined”

21 young journalists from 17 European countries at the M100YEJ on Fake News and Disinformation

Potsdam, 29 August 2022. “Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have seen more horrors in Telegram chats than I could have ever imagined”, writes the Latvian journalist Paula Anna Koškina in her application essay. In it, she gives insights into her day-to-day work in the foreign editorial department of the public broadcaster Latvian Television: “The obligation to report on the events there has also affected me. In the beginning, I didn’t have much time to process the information that was coming in – my work took priority. It was only when I went home that the emotions of the daily events swelled up inside me. At night, I woke up about every hour and checked to see if the Ukrainian president was still alive”.
Paula Anna is one of 21 young journalists from 17 European countries who are participating in this year’s M100 Young European Journalists Workshop (M100YEJ), selected from more than 70 applicants. It takes place from 10 to 15 September 2022 at the premises of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Berlin and Potsdam-Sanssouci.

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Medienboard supports the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

25 August 2022. “We at the MBB support the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, which is dedicated every year to important social issues such as democracy and freedom of opinion. What challenges do politics and the media face as a result of the Russian war of aggression? With “War and Peace. A New World Order”, M100 is again sending an important signal this year: for democracy and freedom of the press.”
Helge Jürgens, CEO Medienboard

We thank the Medienboard for its support and long-lasting partnership!

 

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz gives keynote speech at the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium

18 August 2022. At this year’s M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz will give the keynote speech at the M100 MEDIA AWARD ceremony. The international media conference will take place on 15 September at the Orangerie Sanssouci in Potsdam.

Russia’s military attack on Ukraine, the resulting consequences for Europe and the role of the media are the focus of this year’s M100 Sanssouci Colloquium in Potsdam. The brutal invasion is the largest armed conflict on the European continent since the end of the Second World War, with enormous consequences for geopolitics, the economy, democracy, society and the environment. How does Europe, how does the Western world want to defend and strengthen democracy, freedom, freedom of the press and freedom of opinion?

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “It is basically constitutive for a functioning democracy: the free and independent press. Especially in times of disinformation like we are experiencing, it is indispensable. Because the bitter truth is: disinformation works. And where disinformation is total, where no dissenting information can be perceived, the outrageous becomes sayable and horrific crimes possible. Russia’s cruel war of aggression and annihilation against Ukraine proves this. It is therefore all the more important that we come together in Potsdam within the framework of the M100 Media Award to honour those who, with their work, often also dedicate their lives to strengthening freedom of opinion and freedom of the press, and thus always also to democracy.”

Mike Schubert, Mayor of Potsdam and Chair of the M100 Advisory Board:
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