M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and M100 Media Award 2023

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Elmar Theveßen: Place the focus on the people

Elmar Theveßen, bureau chief of ZDF’s Washington, D.C. studio, expert on international security and terrorism at ZDF and participant of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, on this year’s topic:

“Liberal democracy is under attack – from the outside and from within. The coronavirus crisis has revealed bitter truths that we have been ignoring for far too long.

It is only an honest analysis of the challenges and threats, and a willingness to find new responses and develop new concepts to overcome them, that will enable our value system to be asserted once again and ensure its survival in the face of authoritarianism. This process should place the focus on people. As Theodor Fontane once said: “We should love everything that’s old, as far as it has a claim to our respect, but it’s for the new that we should really and truly live.”

 

Start of the M100YEJ „Reporting in Crises and the Crisis in Reporting”

Potsdam, 10 September 2021. Today our M100Young European Journalists Workshop on “Reporting in Crises and the Crisis in Reporting” starts online on Zoom!

16 aspiring, dedicated journalists from Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania and Russia have been selected to discuss and analyse in practical workshops how media in general and journalists in particular can provide guidance in a time of seemingly perpetual crisis. Special emphasis will be placed on strategies and concrete tools available to media-makers for a future-oriented, credible and resilient journalism that is responsive to its audiences.

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Angelos Athanasopoulos: Four Dimensions for better Resilience

Angelos Athanasopoulos, Editor-in-Chief Politics of the Greek daily newspaper “To Vima” and participant of this year’s M100 Sanssouci Colloquium, describes what from his point of view went wrong during the COVID pandemic and what individual countries and the EU can do to improve their resilience:

“The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated governments’ ability to respond to a major global crisis with extraordinary flexibility, innovation and determination. However, emerging evidence suggests that much more could have been done in advance to bolster resilience and many actions may have undermined trust and transparency between governments and their citizens during the pandemic.

Resilience is the ability not only to withstand and cope with challenges but also to undergo transitions in a sustainable, fair, and democratic manner. Countries have introduced thousands of emergency regulations, often on a fast track, to counter the effects of the pandemic. Some alleviation of standards is inevitable in an emergency, but must be limited in scope and time to avoid damaging citizen perceptions of the competence, openness, transparency, and fairness of government.

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