Mixer x Point
15-17.06.2023. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
June 15.
Point Programme
Introduction and Welcome
09:00 - 09:15
Point programme
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09:15 - 12:00
Mixer Programme
12:00-12:30
Dom Mladih
Moments, which could have been told diferently
A touch on 4 stories from the Balkan War, which never been widely covered by media. Because instead of thousands of people producing photos/visuals, there were only a couple of photographers on the ground. How do new media change our perspective of the war?
Ron Haviv
Jakub Górnicki
12:30- 12:50
Dom Mladih
Transforming Media: YouTube Defines the Rules
It’s a classic: you become a journalist in a media outlet and gain professional reputation, respect, and contacts there. Why do now so many journalists quit all those benefits and start their own YouTube channels instead? Darka Hirna, who herself is now more famous as a Ukrainian YouTuber than a journalist, talks on her own experience.
Darka Hirna
12:50- 13:20
Dom Mladih
Transforming Media: The Power of Podcasts
Podcasts became highly popular approximately 10 years ago - and first, they became a hit in the Western world. Only recently, they are gaining rapid popularity and diversity in the CEE region. What attracts our audiences to it? Why should media and NGOs pay attention to this kind of content? Hanna Nemeckova, an experienced podcast producer and a former journalist from the Czech Republic, is looking for answers to these questions and shares her results.
Hana Nemeckova
13:20 - 15:00
LUNCH
15:00- 15:45
Dom Mladih
What Makes My Project Successful. A Story About a Good Podcast
Three experienced podcasts present their ways to monetise, engage audience, and create content. Unlocking podcast success is not only about podcasts though: the approaches could be applied in different media projects.
15:45 - 16:30
Dom Mladih
Brand New Crime and Investigations
Media investigations definitely benefit from creative industry: podcasts and YouTube opened direct interactions and access to expanded audiences. However, what effort does it take to build a YouTube channel for the investigation newsroom? Do all the media investigators really need it? Let’s listen to the YouTube creators who cover crimes.
16:30-17:00
Dom Mladih
World of propaganda and conspiracy theories benefit from creative industries like any other narratives. In this discussion, we dive into how podcasts and YouTube help controversies and lies to spread. But also we figure out what are the top approaches to oppose it.
Unmasking Influence. Social Change, Brought by New Media
Marija Ćosić
Daryna Zarzhytska
Kerim Hodžić
17:00- 17:45
Dom Mladih
We dive into the Balkan market of YouTube channels and podcasts. What do people in the region watch and listen to? What are their preferences? Where do these trends bring us? First a brief analysis of the Balkan podcast and YouTube industry is presented by Haris Dedovic, chief editor of Satro.info. Then the trends are discussed by top creators in the Balkan region.
Podcasts and YouTube. Balkan Turn
Jelisaveta Miletic
Haris Dedovic
Adnan Barucija
Nedim Krajišnik
Siniša Pašić
17:45- 18:45
Dom Mladih
An experimental format to end up the first day of the event brightly. The audience watches/listens to 10 exotic, unusual, unrecognisable extracts from podcasts/YT channels and tries to guess what they saw/heard. Later, the host of the DEMO session reveals what was demonstrated and which podcast/channel covered that topic.
DEMO
Jakub Gornicki
18:45- 19:00
Dom Mladih
Closure of the first day
Goodbye from the organisers on the first day.
June 16.
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June 17.
Workshops powered by Google News Initiative
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10:00-11:00 Podcasting for the beginners
Orsolya Seregely
11:15 - 12:30 Verification and Fact Checking
Natalia Zaba & Orsolya Seregely
12:45 - 13:15 Cyber Security
Natalia Zaba
14:15 - 15:15 Pinpoint
Orsolya Seregely
15:30 - 16:30 Advanced Search
Natalia Zaba
Our Trainers
Natalia Żaba is an investigative reporter and editor who spent more than a decade in the Western Balkans region and worked with numerous international and regional media outlets as Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Al Jazeera Balkans, Sky News and many others, covering migration crisis, international relations, regional affairs and politics mostly. She is an alumna of Harvard supported Leadership Academy for Poland.
Orsolya Seregely is a Hungarian journalist based in Serbia. She works for the Press Freedom Foundation as a journalist and a podcaster. The foundation runs three main media channels: an online newsportal, a printed magazine and a podcast-youtube channel. one online media, one printed media, and YouTube/ podcast channels. Orsolya is proud to be a part of the team that is the biggest independent Hungarian news outlet in Serbia.
