media

Just arrived at the venue for the Asia Media Forum. The theme for 2009 is aptly been chosen as "Media in the Time of Crisis".

The crisis being discussed are the economic crisis, food crisis, environmental crisis and the crisis of governance.

Its a gathering of about 75 senior journalists, media experts and human right experts from Asia. Overhearing the discussions so far much of them have been around North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, China.

Keynote speaker will be Prof. Vithit Muntabhorn, UN Rapporteur for North Korea Human Rights.

I'll be presenting on the topic "New Media Reporting" on the 27th.

I'll be tweeting the interesting tid bids as things get along with the hash tag #amf09.

UPDATE: My presentation from the forum.