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26. CHRISTIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF MODERN-DAY PROBLEMS

Place: European Centre of Communication and Culture (ECCC), Warsaw, Poland
Dates: 28 February – 9 March 2006
Participants: The course was aimed at journalists writing on such topics as politics, bioethics, terrorism, teachings of the Church, social issues.
Number of participants: 19 (Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Poland)
Working language: Russian

Course objectives:

• Discuss and analyse the principles of the media’s coverage of controversial news issues by comparing how this is done in public, commercial and religious media

Course programme included the following presentations:

• The role of the media in resolving cultural conflicts, Maciej Iłowiecki
• Alternative Christian media initiatives, Grzegorz Górny
• Investigative journalism, Anna Marszałek
• Politics and politicians in the media, Marek Mądrzejewski
• Pro-life initiatives in Christian media, Antoni Zięba, D.Sc.
• Public debates on controversial issues, Jan Pospieszalski
• How to prepare a TV live debate, Paweł Nowacki
• Working strategies of religious mass media, Barbara Sułek-Kowalska
• War, terrorism and tragedies in the media coverage, Anna Pietraszek
• Bioethical problems in the media, Piotr Aszyk SJ, PhD
• Religious and social initiatives in the public media, Rafał Sztejka SJ
• Church problems shaped by the media, Zbigniew Nosowski
• Media coverage of social problems, Jolanta Matras
• Interreligious conflicts in the media, Tomasz Terlikowski, PhD
• Newspapers as active elements of local communities, Andrzej Stefański
• Christian media and new dangerous religious movements, Aleksander Posacki SJ, PhD

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