Guests from Beijing, Mexico, Tbilisi, Tunisia and Russia, some from exile, come to the festival from May 16 to 18. The festival is open to anyone interested, admission to most events is free. With Marina Litwinenko, Shermin Langhoff, Catherine André, Yinmi Yao, Alexander Mitteräcker, Clemens Pig, Franz Essl, Jürgen Geuter, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid, Doris Schmidauer.
Information & program: journalismusfest.org
Journalists in exilefrom Russia or Mexico, reports on the catastrophic location in Gaza through NGOs like doctors without limits and reporters without limits, the pressure on the media in the USA under Trump, investigative research in China to Ultra-Fast fashion, the challenges for Independent media publishers in Austria and Germany (with Alexander MitteräckerStandard, and Silvia Lieb, Moser-Holding) and the Pressure on journalist: inside in this country: these are some of the topics at the Journalism Festival Innsbruck 2025.
Guest is too Marina LitwinenkoWidow of the former Russian and British intelligence officer Alexander Litwinenko in London: she called Kremlin chief Putin a criminal years before the Ukraine decline. The political influence of the Kremlin on states such as Georgia and RomaniaWhere elections take place on May 18, there is also discussion.
And at the beginning of the new era in the Vatican after the death of Pope Francis, in Innsbruck about “Global Networks of religious and political extremists“Spoken.
Open Will that Journalismt in the presence of the governors Anton MattleTyrol, and Arno KompatscherSouth Tyrol, with a round of international cartoonists about political caricatures today. You can see an exhibition of the European Cartoon Award. In addition, the festival shows an exhibition about Road newspapers international. For the first time there is Journalismusfest KIDSan event for children, and a conversation “Why journalism is important for children today!”.
Where the rapid journey with the “Artificial intelligence” goes with what social consequences, discussed Jürgen Geuter /“Aunt” and Sarah Spiekermann. To what extent can be useful for data research or endangered, asks Pulitzer winner Christo Buschek.
Ecology and climate change are subject several times: in a conversation between the top scientists Franz Essl, Georg Kaser and Julia Schnetzer; In a panel on ecosystems as legal subjects in Europe and Austria and a round of “quality of life in the Alps”. On the overexploitation in reducing phosphate for e-mobility in Tunisia Blicken Arianna Poletti und Daniela Sala.
It’s about that StatUate of the radio Anno 2025: for regional reporting, for pop music culture, for democratization in Syria. It’s also about crime -Because True crime journalism is very interested. And it is about the question: “How does knowledge come in the media and society?”
„First Lady“ Doris Schmidauer presents her book about the “land of daughters”, Herbert Lackner of his over the Change in Austria in 1945. Her Research on sexualized violence And abuse of mache explains Juliane Löffler.
Die International Days of Information 2025 offer a variety of other formats: reporter slam, podcast live, reports live on stage, documentary films, hearing cinema and walks (such as in the footsteps of the Signa-Holding René Benkos).
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