This in-person event, to be held at the Media Museum Merkki, marks the end of Katja Lehtisaari, Olga Dovbysh, and Elena Rodina’s project that we have followed on our pages at the beginning and at the halfway stage.
Now, the time has come to wrap up the findings and discuss them in good company! See the info below.
Event invitation
Entrepreneurship and precarity in journalism in uncertain times: evidences from exiled and small-scale media
Date: Tuesday 22 October, 8.30-12.00 Finnish time (GMT+3)
Venue: Media Museum Merkki, Ludviginkatu 2–4, 00130 Helsinki, Finland
Today’s journalism is undergoing severe transformations, forcing media professionals to reconsider the practices and principles of their work. Small-scale media, such as journalistic start-ups, diasporic and exilic media, and local media, are experiencing challenges of precarity and the necessity to find survival strategies in these uncertain times. This event aims to address and discuss the challenges faced by media professionals working under conditions of various kinds of instability.
This is the closing event of the research project Russian Independent Journalism in Exile: In Search of Relevance and Resilience, where the project team will share the main results of their work and will also open avenues for further discussion on the resilience of small-scale media in Europe working under conditions of financial, legal, organizational, and other instabilities. We strive to address the entrepreneurial potential of these projects and their ability to produce creative responses and solutions to the manifold challenges.
Detailed programme
08.30-09.00 Morning coffee
09.00-09.45 Russian independent journalism in exile: in search of relevance and resilience – the project’s main results
- Olga Dovbysh, Helsinki University: Project background and results
- Elena Rodina, Helsinki University: Navigating Connections and Disconnections: The (Re)making of Russian Exiled Journalism in the Digital Age
- Katja Lehtisaari, Tampere University: Supporting Journalism in Exile: Views from the Donor Side
09.45-10.00 Journalism under conditions of instability and the entrepreneurial potential (Olga Dovbysh)
10.00-10.15 Jenny Wiik, University of Gothenburg: Exiled Media as Agents of Change: Rethinking Journalism in Times of Transformation
10.15-10.30 Olli Seuri, journalist, founder of Uusi Juttu: Building a News Start-up in Finland: Case Uusi Juttu
10.30-10.45 Coffee break
10.45-11.45 Round table discussion: Challenges and Entrepreneurial Responses of Small-scale Media under Conditions of Instability. Participants: Jenny Wiik, Olli Seuri, Liudmila Voronova (Södertörn University), Elena Rodina. Moderator: Katja Lehtisaari.
11.45-12.00 Closing words (Olga Dovbysh).
Participation
To join this event, you need to register. Please do so here by 15 October 2024 if you are going to join us.