By Richard Sambrook, Director of the BBC's Global News Services

By Adrian Monck, Head of Journalism at City University, London It’s a question that tends to assume there’s only one answer – yes. Journalism is both an information source and a watchdog. Without it, democracy would seize up.  

Editorial by STEFAN BARON, Editor of the German weekly Wirtschaftswoche. Future Head of Communications at Deutsche Bank. 

Verbatim by DAVID SCHLESINGER, Global Managing Editor of Reuters.Thank you very much for inviting me this evening.I noticed on a copy of the programme I received last week, I am listed as the Global managing Director of Reuters. I’m not; I’m the Global Managing Editor.In that little mistake (one that probably makes more difference to my bank manager than to anyone else, frankly), is contained the key issue facing journalism:

Rupert Murdoch has made a 5 bn bid for the Wall Street Journal and it is very likely that the mogul will accomplish the deal soon. Subsequently, the WSJ will be incorporated into Murdoch's global and immensely powerful News Corporation, plus it will make him the biggest rival of the New York Times in the US.

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Editors: Peter Littger, Florian Lottmann (IJP), Rob Davies, Dirk von Gehlen
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The first international EofJ conference will take place in Berlin in autumn 2007, in cooperation with the British-German Programmes of IJP, with the Berlin Institute for media policy research IfM and with the media company Bertelsmann.

Renowned journalists, communications experts and EofJ contributors will be invited to speak.

Details follow.

We believe that it is important to discuss the troubles and dangers journalism is facing and to make a contribution to public communication.

The End of Journalism?