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    #WNC17: Highlights from Day 1

    DURBAN: Following the Women in News Summit, the men were ready as ever to take the stage, with the second half of Day 1 at the World News Media Congress kicking off with a roundtable on sports news as a major driver for media innovation.

    This was followed by the annual small and midsize business annual meeting, this year taking a pragmatic approach to data.

    Next up, Guy Burger, director for freedom of expression and media development at UNESCO in Paris, facilitated the annual roundtable discussion on press freedom to assess how far we've come since 2007 and where we are now in 2017. The consensus:

    Turkish journalist Can Dündar shared how he survived an assassination attempt last year, saying that his editors are still in prison today. His talk was fittingly followed by the opening ceremony and Golden Pen of Freedom Award annoucement, of which he was the deserving recipient. The Golden Pen of Freedom is the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' (WAN-IFRA’s) annual recognition of "an outstanding action, in writing or deed, of an individual, a group or an institution to the cause of press freedom".

    President Jacob Zuma was supposed to open the Congress and World Editors Forum, but wasn’t able to as his plane was grounded in Cape Town due to the storm, so minister of international relations and cooperation, Maite Emily Nkoana-Mashabane gave the opening address on his behalf.

    For more information, visit WAN-IFRA.org or follow @NewspaperWorld, hashtag #WNC17 on Twitter, and keep an eye out on Bizcommunity for more socially shared insights from the Congress over the next couple of days.

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