Workshop on Election Reporting for Journalists and Bloggers

Date: 15 July 2007

Place: Crystal Crown, Petaling Jaya

Agenda

0900 – 0930 am Registration

0930 – 0945 am Opening Remark

0945 – 1000 am Section I: Newsworthiness in Election Reporting: What in store if the PM dissolves the Parliament today?

Presenter: Mr. Liew Chin Tong (FEFSA/Bersih secretariat)

1000 – 1100 pm Section II – Trend in Electoral Reporting: Past Record and Future Prospect

Presenter: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anuar K. Mustafa (USM)

1100 – 1115 am Tea break

1115 am – 100 pm Section III: Meaning in Electoral Reporting: Why we may have Elections without Democracy

Presenter: Mr. Wong Chin Huat (IKMAS, UKM / WAMI)

100 – 200 pm Lunch

200 – 430pm Workshop 1-6: What and How to inform the citizenry about/in the event of ……

· Political Debates and Mudslinging – real v pseudo issues, negative campaigning

· Civil Society and Citizen in Elections

· Polling Irregularities – phantom voters, exclusion/transfer of voters, missing ballots

· Campaigning Irregularities – intimidation, vote-buying (with private money)

· Administrative Neutrality – vote-buying (with state funds and policies), caretaker government

· Electoral System – gerrymandering, mal-apportionment and disproportionality

Coordinator: Faisal Mustaffa (BERSIH secretariat)

430 - 500 pm Wrap-up session

Coordinator: Ms Gayathry V. (CIJ)

500 pm Tea break

Further Details:

Organizer: Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH)

Co-organizers: Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ)

Writers Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI)

Objectives:

(a) To enhance professionalism, depth and reflectivity in election reporting amongst professional and amateurish journalists;

(b) To promote free and fair elections in the citizenry via quality election reporting

Participation: by invitation, free of charge

Target Participants: Journalists, Bloggers, Media/Journalism Students, totaling 60

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