BEIJING: Leaders and representatives from more than 260 media outlets and institutions across the world gathered in person or online at a media summit to discuss challenges and opportunities brought by COVID-19 and how they could cooperate to cope with new media trends shaped by the pandemic.<\/p>\n
The fourth World Media Summit (WMS), hosted by China’s Xinhua News Agency, focused on the theme of “Media Growth Strategy under the Impact of COVID-19.” The participants recognized the pandemic’s impacts on the media industry and discussed the media’s responsibilities in fighting COVID-19.<\/p>\n
“The pandemic endangers the health of mankind, and the media have a mission to fulfill,” said He Ping, executive president of the WMS and president of Xinhua.<\/p>\n
He called on world media to fully reflect the consensus and actions of all countries to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic, tell the anti-pandemic stories well, spread positive information, reflect ordinary people’s feats, and tell the glory of human nature.<\/p>\n
As a bridge linking people’s hearts and a driving force for social development and progress, the global media should join hands to undertake the missions in promoting solidarity amid the global fight against the pandemic, and play a positive role in advocating the common values of humanity and advancing the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, Ping said.<\/p>\n
Stressing the importance of solid interviews in spite of the challenges brought to face-to-face communication by the virus, Toru Mizutani, president and editor-in-chief of Kyodo News, said media workers must talk to their sources to make sure they have authentic information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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