Media forum in Istanbul
Posted by meb at January 17th, 2008
Representatives of the world’s media giants and leading figures of Turkey’s media and business sectors will gather today and tomorrow for the annual meeting of the Doğan Media Group (DMG), Turkey’s leading media company.
DMG meetings, organized every year in January, shape the agenda of the world’s media sector, said DMG Executive Committee Chairman Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ. In these meetings, representatives of media sector meet the domestic and foreign partners of the group as well as its managers and employers, he added. The theme of this year’s meeting is ”The Short History of the Future.”
The Doğan Media Forum will be held on the second day of the meeting and will host leaders of international media. It will be an interactive platform for representatives of the media sector to express their views on the business world and media trends. Topics to be discussed include the future of journalism, print media, TV broadcasting, the Internet, communication technologies, advertisement, film and entertainment world as well as global media.
“I think our country and Istanbul, which has been chosen as the European Capital of Culture in 2010, deserve to be mentioned with a media forum of such a scope. I am very pleased that our meeting is called as the Davos of Media,” said Yalçındağ.
Among the media institutions that will participate the meeting are: CNN International, Bild & Bild am Sonntag, Die Welt, ZDF German Television, ARBO Media AG and Hubert Burda Media Holding, Israel-based International Technologies Ventures and Luli TV, French media group Television Francaise (TF1), Russian Pronto Moskow (TME), British media group Central European Media Group (CME), Reuters, Yahoo! and Google, Financial Times, Prinz Medien and Sony Pictures and Discovery Channel.
The TDN is a Doğan Media Group publication.
Source: Turkish Daily News
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