The International e-Society.Mk conference “Fact-Checking and Influence of New Technologies on Journalism” organized by the Metamorphosis Foundation within the framework of USAID-supported Media Fact-Checking Service project, will take place on January 31, 2017 at the “Holiday Inn” hotel in Skopje. This is the 12th consecutive e-Society conference, and the topics of this year’s conference will focus on the interchange between standards of ethical journalism, the needs for media literacy and increased citizen demand for higher media quality as well as the discussion on the nature of media today.

 

09:00-10:00	Registration and coffee
10:00-10:30	Session 1: Opening
10:30-11:30	Session 2: Panel on Fact-Checking vs Fake News
11:30-11:45	Coffee break
11:45-12:45	Session 3: Panel on Media Literacy & Citizen Demand for Higher Media Quality
12:45-13:00	Session 4:  Presentation of the MFCS Compendium of Journalistic Lessons
12:45-13:45	Session 5: Panel on Promotion of Ethical Journalism
13:45-14:00	Coffee break / transfer to Session 6 locations
14:00-14:45	Session 6: Parallel Workshops including discussion with all participants
	Workshop 1: Current State of Media in Macedonia (Millenium Hall, working languages Macedonian, Albanian and English)	Workshop 2: Online Tools and Tactics for Journalists and Active Citizens * Presenting the Time Machine Tool by the Media Fact-Checking Service (Skala Room, working language English)	Workshop 3: Watchdog journalism/fact-checking in the post-fact world: Investigative journalism, public debates and other endangered spicies in authoritarian societies (Dnevna Room, working language English)
14:45-15:00	Session 7: Conclusions and Closing
15:00-16:00	Lunch