The Asian Conference on Media

Program

Conference Registration and Information Desk

The Registration and Information Desk will be open from 15:00-17:00 on Friday afternoon, and from 8:00-8:45, and 12:00-18:00 on Saturday, and from 9:00-17:00 on Sunday.

Presentation Schedule

Parallel panels are organized into thematic streams and run on Saturday afternoon, and Sunday. The plenary session will be on Saturday morning.

Saturday Plenary Session: 9:15-12:00

Saturday Parallel Sessions: (1) 13:15-14:45, (2) 15:00-16:30

Sunday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:30-15:00

Sunday Closing Session: 16:00-16:30

Please click here to download the Conference Schedule

Events

Conference Tour of the Panasonic Center - 13:15-16:45

Friday: Conference tour of the Panasonic center, Osaka. Leaves from the hotel at 13:30 and returns at 16:00. Please meet in the hotel lobby at 13:00.

Welcome Drinks and Networking Reception - 18:00-19:30

Friday Evening: Complimentary welcome reception with wine and soft drinks. No need to reserve: everyone welcome.

Conference Dinner - 19:00-21:00

Saturday Evening: The official conference dinner will be held in a downtown Osaka izakaya, and provide a relaxed and enjoyable environment to meet and network with other delegates. This is ticketed and there are a limited number of places. For more information please ask at the registration desk.

RICHARD J. ROTH
MEDIASIA 2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

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Richard J. Roth is currently the Senior Associate Dean for the Journalism Programme at Northwestern University in Quatar. As a reporter in Buffalo (NY), Roth earned a 1972 Pulitzer Prize nomination for his coverage of the bloody 1971 riot at Attica prison, where he was one of two newspaper reporters inside the prison yard, he has served as editor in chief of the newspaper at Terre Haute, IN, and he was a guest editor in the early days of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, now called wsj.com. Roth has taught at DePauw University and has been a member of the Medill faculty since 1998. Roth has served as an officer of The Newspaper Guild; president of the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors association; adviser to the U.S. Project for Excellence in Journalism; and a director of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has lectured on journalism issues in the US and abroad.

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GARY SWANSON
MEDIASIA 2011 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ADVISER

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Gary E. Swanson is currently the Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair and Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at the University of Northern Colorado, USA. From 2005-2007 Swanson was a Fulbright scholar to China and lectured at Tsinghua University and the Communication University of China. In 2008 he was Commentator for China Central Television International (CCTV-9) and their live coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games. Previously, Swanson was professor and director of television for nine years at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he taught mostly graduate broadcast students on the Evanston, Chicago, and Washington D.C. campuses. He has been an educator for 23 years 17 years spent teaching at the university level.

Swanson is an internationally recognized and highly acclaimed documentary producer, director, editor, consultant and educator. He has given speeches, presented workshops and lectured at conferences, festivals, and universities throughout China, India, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Greece, South Africa, Jordan, Germany, Portugal, Great Britain and the United States. Swanson has compiled a distinguished professional broadcast career spanning 13 years: From 1978 to 1991, Swanson worked for the National Broadcasting Company where he was honored with national EMMY's for producing and editing: The Silent Shame, a prime-time investigative documentary; Military Medicine, a two-part investigative series on NBC News; and Hotel Crime, an investigative news magazine piece. Swanson was an editor for breaking news and features for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, the Today Show, Sunrise, Sunday Today, NBC Overnight, A Closer Look, Monitor, and other prime time news magazines. Swanson covered breaking news in 26 states and Canada for the network including trips and campaigns of presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton.

Swanson was the Fulbright distinguished lecturer and consultant in television news to the government of Portugal in 1989. In 1992, he covered the XXV Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for NBC News as field producer and cameraman.

Swanson has earned more than 57 awards for broadcast excellence including three national EMMYs, the duPont Columbia Award, two CINE Golden Eagles, 12 TELLYs, the Monte Carlo International Award, the Hamburg International Media Festivals Globe Award, the Videographer Award, The Communicator Award, the Ohio State Award, the CINDY Award, and many others. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana with a Bachelor's degree in Education in 1974, and a Master's degree in Journalism in 1993.

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