Wednesday, July 05, 2017, 18:30 - 20:30
Distinguished Panel on the Future of Journalism: 4 distinguished veteran correspondents hold forth on some important issues
(The speech and Q & A will be in English)
Beset by the digital revolution, talk radio, social media, fake news and political tribalism, among other challenges, the news industry has been turned practically upside down. Respected news organizations have disappeared. Many of their replacements appear dodgy. Practitioners and consumers alike can be forgiven for being unable to visualize the state of news even ten years hence. Come and join us as four distinguished veteran correspondents and editors who are in town for a reunion hold forth on these all-important issues.
- Philip Bowring worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review for most of the years 1972 to 1992, interrupted by a stint at the Financial Times. He succeeded Derek Davies as the Review’s editor. From FEER he went on to spend 19 years as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune. In 2006 he and three other expatriate journalists founded Hong Kong-based Asia Sentinel, which they saw as a digital heir to such now-extinct print publications as FEER and Asiaweek. His title at asiasentinel.com is consulting editor. He also works as a freelance columnist, author and consultant.
- Bill Emmott is a writer best known for his spell as editor-in-chief of The Economist (1993-2006), a publication he also represented as Tokyo correspondent in 1983-86. He’s the author of 13 books, including The Sun Also Sets, Rivals and Good Italy, Bad Italy. His latest book, The Fate of the West, has just been published in English and will be published July 10th in Japanese. Since leaving The Economist he has written columns for La Stampa, Nikkei Business, Project Syndicate and occasionally for the Financial Times.
- Urban Lehner spent 33 years at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter, editor and executive, based in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Tokyo (twice, 8 years total) Detroit, Brussels and Hong Kong. After retiring from the Journal, he spent nine years as editor in chief and vice president editorial of DTN/The Progressive Farmer in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the author of The Asia Factor in U.S.-Japan Relations and editor/author of Let’s Talk Turkey About Japanese Turkeys and Other Tales From The Asian Wall Street Journal.
- John Marcom, Time Inc.’s senior vice president for international strategy and business development, began his career as Seoul correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, 1979–80. He moved on to Tokyo as The Asian Wall Street Journal bureau chief, then to Journal reporting assignments in New York and London. He was Forbes’ European bureau chief from 1988 to 1991. Returning to Tokyo for Time Inc., he moved to Hong Kong in 1994, leading Time magazine's Asian business during the rest of the 1990s. In 2002-3, he led Financial Times U.S. business operations. As a Yahoo senior vice president from 2003 to 2007, he piloted a tenfold expansion of the company’s international business. From 2009 to 2012, John was president of the U.S. unit of Future plc, a specialty media company.
Please reserve in advance, 3211-3161 or on the website (still & TV cameras inclusive). The charge for members/members' guest is 2,300/3,400 yen; non-members eligible to attend may pay in cash by email reservation (front@fccj.or.jp). (Menu: A Chicken menu) Reservations canceled less than 24 hours will be charged in full. Reservations and cancellations are not complete without confirmation.
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