With the revolutions dominating the news agenda internationally, the Middle East developments have a central place at the Congress and Editors Forum, where the press, publishers, chief editors, CEOs, managing directors and other senior newspaper executives of the world's are expected to attend.
In addition to Abdel-Hamid, who is currently covering the revolution in Libya, the "how to tell the truth during a revolution" session will feature, Philippe Massonnet, global news director for Agence France-Presse; Gamal Eid, a human rights lawyer with the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information; and Magda Abu-Fadil, director of the Journalism Training Programme at the American University in Beirut, who will chair the session.
The joint Congress and Forum session will examine:
The Congress and Forum will also present "Frontline stories from the Arab Spring", a breakfast meeting featuring testimony from local editors, journalists and publishers from the region who will be attending the events.
There is still time to register for the Vienna 2011 events, organised by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and hosted by the Austrian Newspaper Association, VOZ.
The Editors Forum and Congress are being held this year in conjunction with IFRA Expo, a global trade exhibition for the news publishing and media industry. Full details of all the events can be found at www.worldnewspaperweek.org.