10:00 -12:00 — Foyer historique — 100 pax
European Media Speedmeeting
Spend a morning in the company of the stakeholders in the European media sector. Financing, editorial collaborations, project discoveries: a moment of connection with inspiring personalities.
With:
— Caroline Baldeyrou (ARTE I FR)
Caroline Baldeyrou entered the digital and media world at the very end of the 20th century, and has since experimented with many different types of organisation. Having joined ARTE France in 2019, she initially managed the digital creation and broadcasting teams, and is now Deputy Director of the Audience Relations Department. She is in charge of coordinating ARTE's presence and projects within the Fabrique de l'Époque at the Gaîté Lyrique.
— Peter Bokor (EM GUIDE I HU)
Peter Bokor is the president of KultDesk Cultural Foundation (https://kultdesk.hu/), the founder of MMN music magazine (https://mmn-mag.hu/) and Lahmacun community radio (https://www.lahmacun.hu/). He’s also an active contributor in blindblindblind label & concert series (https://blindblindblind.com/).
— Zsofi Borsi (Lazy Women I HU / FR)
Zsofi Borsi founded Lazy Women, an international feminist magazine and community in 2020 with a group of like-minded women with a desire to use creativity for social and political change. She currently works at a tech non-profit while managing Lazy Women as editor-in-chief. As a politically engaged feminist, Zsofi Borsi has been invited across Europe and beyond to hold keynote speeches on the topic of independence, inclusive editorial policy, feminism, and the political situation in Hungary.
— Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro (Fumaça I PT)
Ricardo Esteves Ribeiro is a co-founder and journalist at Fumaça, an investigative journalism podcast focused on injustices and inequalities that creates serialised audio-documentaries. In the past, through sometimes years-long investigations, Fumaça has covered the private security sector, European anti-refugee policies, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the climate crisis, natural-gas drilling and mental healthcare. The project is on track to become the first audience-funded newsroom in Portugal, while keeping its journalism nonprofit, ad-free, and without paywalls, investors, or corporate-sponsored content.
— Sabrina Faramarzi (AWE I UK / DE)
Sabrina Faramarzi is the Managing Director of Are We Europe, an award-winning, independent multimedia European media platform and collective working towards a borderless European media space. Previously a journalist and editor focused on international issues around data, AI, gender, and digital human rights, Sabrina has worked and written for The Guardian, Vogue Business, Vice, Wired and others, as well as consulting on audience development strategies and producing large-scale global editorial projects for media and non-profit organisations. She is also one of the co-founders of the arts activist collective, Feminist Internet.
— Anne-Claire Marquet (SPIIL I FR)
Anne-Claire Marquet trained in public affairs. She is director of Spiil, which represents 270 independent press companies, and of J'aime l'info, an association that supports press pluralism by enabling publishers to launch participatory fund-raising campaigns that are tax-exempt for donors. J'aime l'info raised nearly 6 million euros in 2023. Since 2020, Anne-Claire and her team have been advising and guiding emerging independent media in their administrative procedures and funding applications.
— Jamil Mis (Collectif I FR)
Jamil Mis is a specialist in community mobilisation. For six years now, he has been helping media, activists, and committed content creators to set up community fund-raising campaigns and define sustainable strategies. Jamis Mis is co-founder of Collectif, an agency dedicated to supporting independent cultural players.
— Mathieu Molard (Street Press I FR)
Mathieu Molard is editor-in-chief of the independent news website StreetPress.com. He has been devoting part of his work to shedding light on police malfunctions and civil liberties, such as in the documentary he co-directed: Gilets jaunes une répression d’État, and on investigations into police violence. Recently, he has been focusing his work on financial crime.
— Francesco Sebregondi (Index I FR)
Francesco Sebregondi is an architect and a researcher, whose work explores the intersections of violence, media, and the urban condition. Since 2021, he is the founding director of INDEX, an independent expertise NGO and investigative media based in France. Between 2011 and 2020, he was a researcher and project coordinator at Forensic Architecture, as well as the co-editor of its first collective publication “Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth” (Sternberg Press, 2014).
— Ben Whitelaw (Financial Times I UK)
Ben Whitelaw works at FT Strategies, the Financial Times' media strategy and subscriptions consultancy, and has almost 15 years of experience working with publishers globally. Before joining FT Strategies, Ben Whitelaw was an independent newsroom and content strategy consultant supporting news media across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Prior to that, he was Head of Audience Development at The Times and The Sunday Times, where he worked on audience growth and newsroom transformation projects.
