POWER Week host Chris Vick speaks to Managing director of media monitoring Africa William Bird about The M20 is an independent initiative to ensure issues relating to media integrity and healthy information ecosystems are reflected in the G20 policy agenda. The M20 mirrors official G20 engagement groups for business, think-tanks, civil society among others, and includes participation in G20 events, convenings of media and information ecosystem role players.
This article was written by Michael Markovitz and published on Substack. On 14 May, I attended an event at the French Residence in Pretoria that brought together diplomats, media leaders, and civil society representatives under the theme From Brazil to South Africa – Putting Media Issues on the G20 Agenda. Hosted […]
This article was written by Janet Heard and published on Daily Maverick. Public interest media has a small window in the build-up to the G20 Summit in South Africa. The Group of 20 is easily dismissed as a talk shop with little substance. The gathering of ministers and heads of […]
