GÖTEBORG: Editors discuss press freedom, digital media at World Editors Forum in Sweden

Posted by Robb Montgomery on June 1, 2008 at 5:56 PM

The first day of the World Editors Forum featured three roundtable discussions, one about freedom of the press, new digital platforms and perhaps the biggest challenge for newspapers these days, how can newspapers attract young readers? The 15th World Editors Forum 1800 participants from 130 countries have gathered.

Student video reporters Charlotte Boström and Filip Kruse cover the issues raised in the press freedom roundtable. The debate centered about the Scandinavian papers who published the Muhammad cartoons. Ulf Johansson, editor in chief at Swedens Nerikes Allehanda, defended the publishing of the editorial cartoons. But not everyone in the muslim world agrees.

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