Guests include:

Frank Plasberg, journalist

Renate Künast, politician

Sebastian Krumbiegel, artist

Panel 1
"They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats"
Are the media defenceless against populists?

Panel 2
Digital platforms and the Internet's promise of freedom: Time for an update?

The full program with all panelists can be found here.

The ninth Cologne Forum for Journalism Criticism is once again being held this year as a cooperation between the Deutschlandfunk news and opinion & discourse departments and the News Enlightenment Initiative. It is an event of the Deutschlandradio think tank

A live program "@mediasres - Nach Redaktionsschluss" will be produced. The Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung will award the Günter Wallraff Prize for Press Freedom and Human Rights as part of the Cologne Forum for Journalism Criticism.

Free admission, entry from 13:00.

Please register using the registration form.
On the day of the event, we will be happy to welcome you in the entrance foyer without prior registration. Free parking spaces for visitors are available, information on how to find us can be found here.

Subject to changes