Track: Agora 3

The three sessions leading up to this panel are all linked. They all aim to investigate the economical and financial landscapes for media in the future. To connect the threads Yörük, Ozan, Gökhan, Utku and Ümit will have a discussion where you input and questions are very welcome.

Utku Kılınç, from 2004 until now, respectively, he served as the Director of Izmir Bar Association Human Rights Law and Legal Research Center, as the Director of Izmir Bar Association, as a legal advisor under the scope of International Commercial Contracts, General Manager of a public company and finally as a legal advisor in public… Continue reading Listen: A Model for the Finance of Local Media

Rising authoritarianism, spreading conflicts, and the increasing availability of tools that make it easy to bend the truth are among the factors shifting the ground on which civil society organizations operate. The heightened sense of insecurity and a broadened perception of threats further limit the room that CSOs have worked on carving for themselves. As… Continue reading Staying “Civil” In The Age Of Securitization

This presentation will focus on the sub-granting scheme carried out by the Association of Journalists’ M4D Project, the intricacies involved in working with freelance journalists and alternative media outlets in Turkey, and the importance of providing visibility for alternative accounts to emerge that are often obscured by mainstream media. Ozan Acar has been working in… Continue reading Listen: Impressions of the alternative media sector in Turkey through the lens of a media CSO

Democratising the donation base The workshop will be a learning session to collectively reflect upon possibilities of mobilising individual donations to support media/journalism activities and organisations. Yoruk Kurtaran is an expert on strategic development, fundraising and cooperation. Throughout his 25 years of work experience he worked in the senior management and boards of General Manager… Continue reading Listen: Financing independent media organisations

Join me and try some of the tools from the tool box of “Forsight”. Forsight is a method kit first developed in the 70s but that has generated an upswing lately. We can not for-see the future but we can create some likely scenarios and actively think about what different strategies would be most fruitful… Continue reading Try: Foresight, creating scenarios