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Center for International Media Education World Media Forums
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World Media Forums
History: This continuing series of forums was begun in 1993, before CIME was established, as
part of a “Program of International Media Education” organized by Dr.
Teel for students in the
his Perspectives...
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World Media Forums
History: This continuing series of forums was begun in 1993, before CIME was established, as
part of a “Program of International Media Education” organized by Dr.
Teel for students in the
his Perspectives course in Media and Globalization.
In 1993, the first World Media Forum
featured eleven Russian television executives touring the United States to purchase Western
situation comedies for television audiences in post-Communist Russia.
Rationale: Atlanta is an international city and a focal point for journalists largely because of
CNN, but also because of the Carter Presidential Center and the Martin Luther King Jr.
Center.
The Forums, conducted in a formal manner with printed programs and the meeting hall decked
with the full-sized flags of their nations, was intended to bring these journalists into contact with
our campus population in an effort to (1) widen students’ appreciation of international news,
views and geography, (2) let students hear through these
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