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Yesterday, the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation organised a session on \u201cDemocratic Governance and the Media\u201d, along with the Extremaduran Agency for International Development Cooperation (AEXCID), at the Extremaduran Assembly.<\/p>\n
The Foundation\u00b4s director, Juan Carlos Moreno, took part in the opening of the event, and announced that the new Foundation\u00b4s statutes \u201chave incorporated social commitment as one of its aims\u201d. \u201cWe believe that the Foundation is an instrument that the people of Extremadura place in our hands in order to do good things, and this is possible when being close to the citizens\u2019 problems and to issues that affect our daily lives, in order to analyse them, to reflect upon them, to debate and find solutions to the best of our ability\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
The session focused on the quality of information and the right to truthful information, and transparency; on democratic systems; on the task of investigative journalism to make \u201cthe hidden visible\u201d; on the defense of human rights, and on the democracy that the freedom of the press entails. To this effect, the session included the participation of Elena Cabrera, the director of Journalism at the porCausa Foundation, a non-profit organization that carries out social research and journalism on migrations; Silvia P\u00e9rez, journalist and member of LA MUNDIAL, a policy-making group with long and varied experience in policy analysis, political incidence strategies and social communication, and the development of research, awareness-raising, and communication actions; \u00c1ngel Sastre, an Extremaduran reporter who works in areas of conflict, such as Syria, Colombia, Venezuela, Ukraine, Mexico, and Qatar; Olmo Calvo, a photo journalist who works independently for national and international media and who has documented the economic and social crisis in Spain and the tragedy of refugees on their way to Europe throughout the past years, and Juan Luis Manfredi, a professor of Journalism at the University of Castilla La Mancha and the academic director of the Observatory for the Transformation of the Public Sector (Observatorio para la Transformaci\u00f3n del Sector P\u00fablico ESADE-PwC).<\/p>\n
In turn, the director of the AEXCID, \u00c1ngel Calle, underlined that \u201cthe mass media, as the leading actor in the countries we work in and in our own country, is a key democratic tool\u201d. Calle noticed \u201cnot only the flow of information\u201d, he said, \u201cbut the ability of the media to educate, make pedagogy, and play the part of an educator in the systems of the twenty seven countries where the Extremaduran cooperation works, and where the systems are yet to be consolidated as democratic processes\u201d.<\/p>\n
Calle recalled -in his words- the \u201cleading\u201d role that the mass media has in the region of Extremadura, \u201cit helps us with the dissemination of human rights and disseminating the objectives of sustainable development\u201d. According to the director of the AEXCID, \u201cIt is crucial to know how to coordinate ourselves with the mass media in the defense of those values which provide our roadmap\u201d, and he concluded with the compromise that these sessions may \u201cstrengthen the work of journalists so that they may work with independence and not be subjected to precarious employment systems\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u00c1ngel Calle remembered those journalists who lost their lives defending democracy in countries where Extremaduran cooperation is present. He also gave clear acknowledgement to the 49 assassinated journalists in the year 2017, according to Reporters without Borders (RSF), and to the 156 journalists who died last year, according to the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC).<\/p>\n
Finally, the president of the Extremaduran Assembly, Blanca Mart\u00edn, highlighted the work carried out by the Foundation, and encouraged the \u201cstrengthening of what makes us strong as a region\u201d.<\/p>\n
As far as the session is concerned, she explained that, in her opinion, post-truth \u201cis sweeping away those of us who are trying to make truth prevail in an objectively, and that is why it is important for journalist to be here today\u201d.<\/p>\n
In this sense, Blanca Mart\u00edn stated that the media does not deal with \u201cgreat current concerns, as there are other reporting priorities\u201d, demanding the union of all the actors involved so as to \u201cshed light on what is happening in the Mediterranean, although it seems as though there are those who do not want to give visibility to the injustices that are occurring in Europe\u201d, she concluded.<\/p>\n
The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation will maintain its scheduled sessions, organized in different areas of Extremadura. The second session, \u201cA Gender Perspective to Guarantee Equality\u201d, will take place at the Casa de la Mujer, in C\u00e1ceres, on the 23rd of November, and the session \u201cIntegration Answers Facing the Migratory-Economic Crises\u201d, on the 30th, at the University Residence Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s, in Badajoz.<\/p>\n
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