A panel discussion with the Graduate School of Journalism’s International Visiting Scholars

The roundtable discussion will cover topics including the high number of jailed journalists in Myanmar/Burma, the rise of lawsuits against media organizations in Indonesia, the difficulty in satisfying a growing demand for unbiased political reporting in China, the pervasive use of anonymous sources and lack of accountability in Sri Lanka, the threat of even tighter controls in post-election Iran and the state of business reporting in China.

Ardimas Sasdi is the Production/Night Editor of The Jakarta Post, Indonesia’s only English language daily.

Lily Sadeghi has been a journalist in her native Iran since 1978, and has worked extensively with Iranian and international news media organizations.

Xiaobing Wang is a senior reporter with the ground-breaking Caijing Magazine in Beijing and has covered economic and social issues in China.

Zhang Ping, an 11 year veteran of newspaper journalism in China, was the former editorial department director of Southern Weekend, widely considered the most ardent voice for social justice and political reform in China.

Kyaw Kyaw Aung is the editor of the Living Color Business News Magazine in Myanmar/Burma and has been a journalist since the year 2000.

Amantha Perera is the news features editor of the The Sunday Leader in Sri Lanka, a paper he joined in 1998.

For a more detailed biography of the participants, go to http://journalism.berkeley.edu/students/visiting.html