Media and Transition Lessons from Indonesia

What can Malaysian journalists learn from twenty years of reformasi in Indonesia? Join George Washington University, professor Janet Steele for a lively discussion of media councils, press freedom, the role of journalists in calling for the right to regulate themselves, and the making of the 1999 Indonesian Press Law.

Details 
Date: 13 July 2018, Friday
Time: 09:00 to 12:00 
Venue:  The University of Nottingham Teaching Centre
               Level 2 Chulan Tower No. 3 Jalan Conlay 50450 Kuala Lumpur       

About the speaker
Janet Steele is an associate professor of journalism at the George Washington University and the director of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication. She received her Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University and focuses on how culture is communicated through the mass media. 

Dr. Steele is a frequent visitor to Southeast Asia where she lectures on topics ranging from the role of the press in a democratic society to specialized courses on narrative journalism. Her book, Wars Within: The Story of Tempo, an Independent Magazine in Soeharto’s Indonesia, focuses on Tempo magazine and its relationship to the politics and culture of New Order Indonesia. 

Awarded two Fulbright teaching and research grants, she has served as a State Department speaker-specialist in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, the Philippines, East Timor, Taiwan, Burma, Sudan, Egypt, India and Bangladesh. The author of numerous articles on journalism theory and practice, her 2014 book, Email Dari Amerika, (Email from America), is a collection of newspaper columns written in Indonesian and originally published in the newspaper Surya. Her most recent book is Mediating Islam, Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia.