RT and DkIT to Host Major European Broadcasters Conference

RT and DkIT to Host Major European Broadcasters Conference

Preparations are underway as Ireland prepares to welcome representatives from broadcasters all across Europe for the 2015 Annual Conference of CIRCOM (the European Association of Regional Television), hosted by RT in partnership with Dundalk Institute of

This will be the first time that the conference has been held in Ireland, and approximately 200 delegates are expected to travel to Dundalk for the three-day event from May 20th-22nd 2015.

The theme of the conference is Challenge. Regions. Future.' and during the three-day event attendees will examine the changing face of both journalism and broadcasting along with the challenges faced by regional media outlets across Europe. Sessions will include Mind Your Language? Pressures and challenges of minority languages and possible solutions from technology advances' and Social Media: Making Us or Breaking Us?', amongst others.

The 33rd Annual conference will see broadcasters from across Europe, including; the BBC, FTV France, ROOS Netherlands, STV Slovenia, MTVA Hungary, RAI Italy, TVP Poland and NRK Norway, attending along with delegates from RT and TG4.

Speakers

The line-up of speakers includes Mark Little, the founder of Storyful, who will address the relationship between social media and broadcasters. He will be joined by Annewil Neervens, a journalist and digital native from the Netherlands, who will outline the challenge of changing old-school journalists into multi-media communicators.

The increasing diversity of consumer choice concerns all broadcasters and will be analysed by Anders Erlandsson of Ericsson s Consumer Lab. Using Ericsson's data, gathered from a worldwide survey of 100,000 consumers, he will address the big questions in everyone's mind: Who is Watching, Who will be Watching, and How?

NRK in Norway will share their experience of drones in a session led by Glen Mulcahy from RT , focussing on Drone Journalism (DroJo) - "Does DroJo have a future in news-gathering?

Christina gren from Sweden will detail how new technologies in the SVT TV newsroom has meant a role-change for journalists, a transformation of news-gathering as well as increased output.

The recent recession and its implications for Public Service Broadcasters will be examined by RT and Goran Radman, Director-General of HRT Croatia. Both will outline the cost to their companies of surviving the recession and the lessons to be learned from this experience.

Other conference speakers will include the Emmy Award-winning producer Philip King, who will showcase how music can significantly increase youth audiences across all platforms while the challenge of minority languages will be addressed with speakers from Friesland, Romania, Italy and Ireland.

Awards

The conference will also host the Prix CIRCOM Gala Awards (the Oscars' of European Regional Television), which honour the best European regional productions in the genres of documentary, video journalism, investigative journalism, Rising Star, minorities in society, Most Original, music, magazine and news magazine. There will also be a Grand Prix award for the Best of the Best" of the above categories. Irish culture and music will feature prominently throughout the award ceremony in An T in Arts Centre. The event will be streamed live on the CIRCOM website on Thursday evening May 21st.

The conference sessions will take place on the campus of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) in their Creative Media Dept purpose-built media facilities of the Carrolls building, with events also taking place locally in the Oriel Centre, Dundalk Gaol, An T in Arts Centre and the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin.

The hosting of the CIRCOM conference on the DkIT campus marks another important milestone in the relationship between RT and the Institute. RT 's representative on CIRCOM, Michael Lally, said: RT and DkIT are building upon their current working relationship, which has already seen the Dundalk RT Regional Studio moving onto the campus. We hope the conference will showcase the local area as well as bring an economic boost to the region. Our broadcasting colleagues from across Europe are already very impressed at what they have experienced and are looking forward to visiting Dundalk for a productive and informative conference this year. From surviving the economic recession in Ireland and Croatia to radical news-gathering approaches in Sweden, the 33rd annual CIRCOM conference promises to be one of the most challenging and fruitful yet.

Head of Creative Media at DkIT, Sarah McCann, said Co-hosting this conference with RT marks a huge milestone in the development of Creative Media as a core discipline area within DKIT and in our developing partnership with RT . We hope to continue this cross collaboration with our national broadcaster in other areas such as content and training initiatives and future professional practice course development and delivery .

- Ends

Date: Thursday 26th March 2015

Contact: Laura Fitzgerald, Communications Manager, RT News & Current Affairs, Ph:01-2083996, 087 2923931, Laura.Fitzgerald@rte.ie

About CIRCOM Regional (The European Association of Regional Television).

CIRCOM Regional is open to public service media stations in all 47 European countries.

Today, 32 countries are represented and CIRCOM is constantly expanding the membership.

Approximately 300 stations use the CIRCOM network for knowledge sharing, co-production, programme exchange and taking part in the oldest and biggest European broadcast competition, the Prix CIRCOM.

At the member stations more than 10,000 journalists serve around 100 million viewers and listeners every day.

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