Gene Policinski, executive director of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, offered advice for those aspiring journos.
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Thor Halvorssen is president of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation and founder and CEO of the Oslo Freedom Forum.
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With his entrepreneurial flair, Neuharth put the Freedom Forum on the map with Newseum, an interactive museum to show visitors how news is covered.
He also founded The Freedom Forum, a foundation dedicated to free press and free speech that holds journalism conferences, offers fellowships and provides training.
With his entrepreneurial flair, Mr. Neuharth put the Freedom Forum on the map with Newseum, an interactive museum to show visitors how news is covered.
Along with many others, they will speak to an audience of tech executives, journalists, policymakers, and entrepreneurs at the first-ever San Francisco Freedom Forum.
The Oslo Freedom Forum was co-chaired by Poland's ex-president, Lech Walesa, and anti-Soviet gadflys like Vladimir Bukovsky and Garry Kasparov featured prominently to the confusion of Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, who was staying in the same hotel.
"Internet-enabled technology, that which networks us together, has done a huge amount for humanity in general, " Scott Carpenter, the principal at Google Ideas, said at the Oslo Freedom Forum earlier this year, according to a live blog.
"Perhaps the single most important way that people are telling their stories is through clips uploaded through YouTube, " Ausama Monajed, a member of Syria's opposition group, said during a recent talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum, according to a live blog of the event that was posted online.
Jim Duff, president and chief executive officer of the Freedom Forum, said, "Al will be remembered for many trailblazing achievements in the newspaper business, but one of his most enduring legacies will be his devotion to educating and training new journalists, " according to the post on the Newseum website.
"Each network doesn't have to have its own man or woman on the scene at every river that overflows its banks, every border where there's a skirmish, every town up and down the coast battening down for a hurricane, " Hewitt said Thursday at the Frank Gannett Lecture series at the Freedom Forum.
It is hard to imagine, say, the Freedom Party becoming a ready forum for such ideas.
Raymond Louw, who heads the Media Freedom Committee at the National Editors' Forum, says that, though the press is quite free, official tolerance of media freedom and freedom of expression is diminishing.
Besides imparting basic skills to rural journalists, the workshops also provided a useful forum for the discussion of press freedom and other professional issues and their possible solutions.
While the proposed changes are a step in the right direction, they don't go far enough, said Nic Dawes, media freedom chairman of the South African National Editors' Forum.
During the 4th annual UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum, specialists from UNESCO took part in the discussions on freedom of expression, where the focus was on journalism education and youth communication, and also on the role of education in sustainable development, which explored the relevance of education to sustainable development as well as the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural understanding.
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