The event to mark the anniversary was held under the overall theme: “Journalism instead of activism, facts instead of fakes”.

The keynote speech was delivered by media researcher Professor Bernhard Pörksen from the University in Tübingen. The Title: “Fact & Fake. The new power of disinformation – what we need to know and what we should do”.

Another speaker was Dr Dirk Burmester from the City of Hamburg who stepped in for Hamburg’s Deputy Minister for Culture and Media, Ms. Jana Schiedeck, who could not attend due to sudden sickness.

In addtion, journalists from Russia and Myanmar showed how thex support their audience back home with constructive journalism.

Please find below videos from our partners and participants.

This event will be part of the Hamburg Week of Press Freedom which is coordinated by

ZEIT-Stiftung and Körber-Stiftung.