Colloquium – M100 SANSSOUCI COLLOQUIUM

Alberto Alemanno

Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy
HEC Paris
France

Brigitte Alfter

Co-Founder and Director
Arena for Journalism in Europe
The Netherlands

Agron Bajrami

Editor-in-Chief
Koha Ditore
Kosovo

Markus Beckedahl

Founder and Editor-in-Chief
netzpolitik.org
Germany

Wolfgang Blau

Visiting Research Fellow
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University
Great Britain

Mathias Müller von Blumencron

Former Editor-in-Chief
Der Tagesspiegel
Germany

Alexandra Borchardt

Senior Research Associate
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Michael Broecker

Editor-in-Chief
The Pioneer
Germany

Stephan-Andreas Casdorff

Publisher
Der Tagesspiegel
Germany

Sue Cross

Executive Director
Institute for Nonprofit News
USA

Ides Debruyne

Co-founder and Managing Director
Journalismfund.eu
Belgium

Kai Diekmann

Founder and Shareholder
Deutsche Fondsgesellschaft (DFG) and Storymachine
Germany

Can Dündar

Editor-in-Chief
Özgürüz
Germany

Dr Alexandra Föderl-Schmid

Deputy Editor-in-Chief,
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Germany

Dr Frank-Dieter Freiling

Astrid Frohloff

TV Presenter and Journalist
rbb TV
Germany

Monika Garbaciauskaitė-Budriene

Chief Executive Officer
Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT)
Lithuania

Dr Dipayan Ghosh

Co-director
Digital Platforms & Democracy Project
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Lorenz Hemicker

Political Editor
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Germany

Dr Henning Hoff

Exectuive Editor
Internationale Politik Quarterly
Germany

Štefan Hríb

Editor-in-Chief
Týždeň
Slovakia

John Kampfner

Author, journalist and founder/former CEO
Creative Industries Federation
United Kingdom

Xenia Kounalaki

Columnist
Kathimerini
Greece

Tamina Kutscher

Editor-in-chief
dekoder.org
Germany

Christoph Lanz

Head of Board
Thomson Media
Germany

Henry Lohmar

Editor-in-Chief
Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung
Germany

Ingo Mannteufel

Head of the Department for Russia, Ukraine and Turkey,
Head of the Russian Service,
Deutsche Welle,
Germany

Jean-Paul Marthoz

Europe Advisory Committee
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ, New York)
Belgium

Anne McElvoy

Senior Editor and Head
Economist Radio
United Kingdon

Patrícia Campos Mello

Reporter at large and columnist
Folha de São Paulo newspaper
Brasilia

Wenzel Michalski

Director,
Human Rights Watch,
Germany

Christian Mihr

Executive Director
Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
Germany

Catherine Nicholson

European Affairs Editor
France 24
France

Kalypso Nicolaïdis

Professor of International Relations
University of Oxford

Dr Leonard Novy

Director
Institute for Media and Communication Policy (IfM)
Member of the M100 Board

Jan-Hendrik Passoth

Head of the Digital Media Lab
Technical University of Munich
Germany

Hella Pick

Senior Consultant
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
United Kingdom

Christian Rainer

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
Profil
Austria

Roland Schatz

Founder and CEO
InnoVatio Publishing AG/Media Tenor International AG/UNGSII Foundation
Switzerland

Sabine Schicketanz

Editor-in-Chief
Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten (PNN)
Germany

Mike Schubert

Lord Mayor of the State Capital Potsdam
Germany

Alan N. Shapiro

Author und media theorist
USA

Ken Sweeney

Co-Founder
The European Network
Ireland

Elmar Theveßen

Bureau chief
ZDF-studio Washington, D.C.
Germany/USA

Christopher Walker

Vice President for Studies and Analysis
National Endowment for Democracy
USA

Richard Walker

Chief International Editor
Deutsche Welle
Germany

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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