The workshop will focus primarily on the challenges and opportunities currently faced by news media and journalism as such in the demanding online environment. The debate will cover a number of issues, including:

- Addressing potential market failures in the production of the public good of independent, professional, quality journalism;

- Securing an efficient and competitive media market place;

- Ensuring that citizens develop deeper critical media and information literacy skills necessary to navigate in the information age;

- Online journalism: preserving or redefining the role of journalists and other media actors in the online environment;

- Fact-checking and accountability in journalism;

- Mis and disinformation disseminated on the internet, filter bubbles and other factors which are driving spread of ”fake news”;

- Public access to diversified, pluralistic information.

The background documents for the workshop:

-  Council of Europe  report  "Challenges and opportunities for news media and journalism in an increasingly digital, mobile, and social media environment"  https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=09000016806c0385

- Council of Europe  publication "Journalism  at risk - Threats, challenges and perspectives", https://rm.coe.int/1680706afe

 -  Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)4 of the Committee of Ministers  to member States  on the protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors,  https://search.coe.int/cm/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=09000016806415d9#_ftn1

-  PACE Resolution 2143 (2017) "Online media and journalism: challenges and accountability" http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=23455&lang=en