Covering the World Cup - IASN

The master-class will include the expertise of a sport news executive, who can catalogue the numerous restrictions he and his team face on a daily basis in covering sports events, along with the contribution of an expert in media rights, with long-standing experience as a journalist, who will describe the current regulations and help participants deal with the current rules and issues:

Juan Ignacio Gallardo, deputy editor of the Spanish sports daily Marca, will introduce the various and increasing limitations on media coverage of sports events. Gallardo started his journalistic career in broadcasting and has been part of his media group since 1991, with responsibilities covering virtually all the departments of the newspaper. Marca, one of the founders of IASN, has a readership of over 2.8 million, the highest in Spain for a daily newspaper. It also includes Marca.com, the most visited sports website in Spain, with over 3 million users a month, and a 24-hour/day radio station, Radio Marca.

Andrew Moger, executive director of the News Media Coalition, will talk about the new rules on access to news: how newsrooms can best cope with the implications of accreditation procedures? Moger is one of the leading architects of the campaigning global network which seeks to protect the press freedom interests of journalists, editors and publishers in the contentious area of sport and other major news events. Before taking up this role with the NMC, he was a journalist and executive editor for national newspapers in the United Kingdom, including The Times of London. The News Media Coalition, with headquarters in London and Brussels, seeks to preserve the function and ability of news organisations to inform public society about major events of interest.

For more information, contact Rosarita Cuccoli, secretary general of the International Association of Sports Newspapers (IASN), tel: +33 6 88 86 32 47, email , or go to www.press-iasn.org.