b° future Opening Session
With Ellen Heinrichs, Markus Beckedahl and Sham Jaff
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Sham Jaff is a journalist and political scientist from Berlin. She has been writing the English-language newsletter “What happened last week” since 2014. In it, she curates and prepares the most important international news primarily from Africa, Asia and Latin America for her readership (more than 15,000 subscribers) in simple and entertaining language from over 100 countries. She also moderates, edits and produces various podcasts. In 2021, Sham Jaff won the Grimme Online Award for her podcast "190220 - One year after Hanau". Her other podcast “Wir schaffen das - Ein Satz, der Deutschland veränderte” was nominated for the CIVIS Audio Media Award in the same year.
Events
Aiming for fairness: Confronting bias in foreign reporting
With Sham Jaff, Laura Postma and Zahra Salah Uddin
Foreign reporting in German media focuses on a limited number of countries — recent studies confirm this. Events in the rest of the world go unnoticed. This phenomenon is repeated in many Western countries. The causes of this attention imbalance and the measures that could be taken to address it will be discussed by Sham Jaff, along with Alena Jabarine and Laura Postma.