Managing the open social web for media companies
Gio 16 aprile 2026
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Open social web platforms present both opportunities and challenges for media organizations seeking new ways to distribute content, engage audiences, and maintain editorial autonomy. As traditional social media becomes increasingly dominated by opaque algorithms and closed systems, media companies are looking to participate in and help shape emerging federated networks.
This panel brings together leaders actively managing the evolution of open social infrastructure and policy to discuss the requirements, business models, and governance frameworks that address the unique needs of newsrooms, broadcasters, and independent publishers. How can open networks be designed and governed to support high-quality journalism, sustainable business, robust moderation, and interoperability?
Panelists will discuss strategies, practical experiences, and remaining challenges in building open platforms that empower both users and media organizations to thrive.
Moderated by Bjorn Staschen.
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Felix Hlatky
Felix Hlatky is Executive Director of Mastodon, the non-profit compamny running the flagship Fediverse platform and championing decentralized, federated social networking. He specializes in development and community relations, helping media partners integrate and navigate the technical, governance, and moderation dimensions of the Mastodon ecosystem. He is committed to building robust, democratic infrastructure for communication online.
Paul Nemitz
Paul Nemitz was until 1 March 2025 the Principal Advisor in the Directorate General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. He was appointed in April 2017, following a 6-year appointment as Director for Fundamental Rights and Citizen’s Rights in the same Directorate General. As Director, Nemitz led the reform of Data Protection legislation in the EU, the negotiations of the EU-US Privacy Shield and the negotiations with major US Internet Companies of the EU Code of Conduct against incitement to violence and hate speech on the Internet. He is a Member of Commission for Media and Internet Policy of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Berlin and a visiting Professor of Law at the College of Europe in Bruges. Nemitz is also a Member of the Board of the Verein Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie e.V., Berlin and a Trustee of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. He chairs the Board of Trustees of the Arthur Langerman Foundation, Berlin. Nemitz studied Law at Hamburg University. He passed the state examinations for the judiciary and for a short time was a teaching assistant for Constitutional Law and the Law of the Sea at Hamburg University. He obtained a Master of Comparative Law from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., where he was a Fulbright grantee. He also passed the first and second cycle of the Strasbourg Faculty for Comparative Law. Recent publications include Prinzip Mensch – Demokratie, Recht und Ethik im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (Principle Human – Democracy, Law and Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence), co-authored with Matthias Pfeffer (Dietz Verlag, April 2020), and Critical Reflections on Constitutional Democracy in the European Union, co-edited with S. Garben and I. Govaere (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2019).
Bjorn Staschen
Björn Staschen is founding director of the European non-profit Save Social - Networks For Democracy, an initiative advocating for open, democratic online spaces in the face of Big Tech dominance. A Save Social petition gathered more than a quarter of a million supporters in 2025. Björn has a background as media scientist and journalist with a long-standing engagement in how digital media shape society and public discourse. He authored the book In der Social Media Falle (""In the social media trap"") and has worked in broadcast journalism, including as a TV correspondent in London. In January, he initiated Digital Independence Day - a campaign with more than 60 supporting organisations in Germany and beyond that aims at consumers to change for more sovereign digital services.
Rose Wang
Rose Wang is Chief Operating Officer at Bluesky Social, where she oversees strategy, operations, and growth for a rapidly scaling open social platform. With a background in digital startups and experience as Head of Customer Experience at an AI company, she focuses on making open, user-centric networks accessible at scale and ensuring trust and safety for diverse online communities.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.