Conference on journalism culture opens the MediaAcT workshop in Wroclaw
Significant changes that occur in the 
contemporary social, political and media 
structures create real opportunities for 
renewing the traditional concepts of media 
systems as well as journalistic culture. Hence, 
as a part of the empirical workshop organised by 
the MediaAcT consortium, the Department of 
Communication and Journalism - Institute of 
Political Science at the University of Wroclaw 
(Poland) - invites to the international 
conference examining the development of 
journalistic culture in an era of market 
competition and the growing importance of media-like services.
The conference ?Journalistic culture in 
different media systems in the theoretical 
perspective and practice? will take place at the 
Main Building (Gmach Glowny) of the University 
of Wroclaw, Oratorium Marianum, pl. 
Uniwersytecki 1, Wroclaw on 23 February 2011 - 
3:00-7:00 p.m. The event is in English. It is 
free of charge and open to the public.
PROGRAM
JOURNALISTIC CULTURE IN DIFFERENT MEDIA SYSTEMS: THEORY
Chair: Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska
Participants:
Daniel C. Hallin, UC San Diego, USA
Paolo Mancini, University of Perugia, Italy
Thomas Hanitzsch, University of Munich, Germany
JOURNALISTIC CULTURE IN DIFFERENT MEDIA SYSTEMS: PRACTICE
Chair: Michal Glowacki
Participants:
Krzysztof Bobinski, President of Unia & Polska, 
a pan-European think-tank in Warsaw and former 
correspondent of the Financial Times, Poland
Ognian Zlatev, Managing Director Media 
Development Center Bulgaria, member of the 
managing board of Bulgarian National TV, board 
member of the National Council for Journalism Ethics of Bulgaria
Thomas Schiller, Editor in Chief of Evangelischer Pressedienst, Germany
Adam Szynol, former journalist of local 
television TV4, lecturer at the University of Wroclaw, Poland
MediaAcT
The project "Media Accountability and 
Transparency in Europe (MediaAcT)" is a 
comparative research effort on media 
accountability systems in EU member states as 
indicators for media pluralism in Europe. The 
MediaAcT project receives funding from the 
European Union Seventh Framework Programme 
(FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 244147.
For more information please visit: <http://www.mediaact.eu>www.mediaact.eu