STORY: Opportunities, challenges facing media highlighted at ongoing WMS
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. and Dec., 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 4, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:00
LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China/ CAPE TOWN, South Africa
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the 5th World Media Summit
2. various of Guangzhou
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): TYSON ANTHONY HENRY, Chief information officer of the Barbados Government Information Service
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FRANCISCO ALBERTO TAIANA, Historian, sinologist, Argentina's National News Agency Telam
5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ABDULRAHMAN ADESHINA ABDULRAUF, Blueprint Newspapers Editor-in-Chief

STORYLINE:

The ongoing fifth World Media Summit (WMS) in southern Chinese city of Guangzhou offers a platform to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the media industry in the digital era.

An official from Barbados attending the WMS has expressed excitement with the new technologies that reshape the media industry development.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): TYSON ANTHONY HENRY, Chief information officer of the Barbados Government Information Service
"I really do want to be a part of this wave, where you can just efficiently put a high-quality communications, whether it is video, photos, writing, embracing artificial intelligence.
The use of technology, it has been one of those things where it has shifted the way we do things. I'm looking for it, however, to not falling behind and to being a part of this wave of modern approach to media and journalism and communications in general.

In the eyes of some representatives from media outlets, risks and challenges brought by the application of new techs should not be ignored, which needs collaborated efforts to tackle with.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FRANCISCO ALBERTO TAIANA, Historian, sinologist, Argentina's National News Agency Telam
"We are entering an absolutely crucial stage. As we have seen in recent years, new media platforms, social media, and the spreading of disinformation and fake news are a great danger that traditional media outlets face, and also the common citizenry. 
I think that the cooperation and dialogue between state news agencies is absolutely crucial to be able to deliver reliable and truthful information to our different peoples. 

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ABDULRAHMAN ADESHINA ABDULRAUF, Blueprint Newspapers Editor-in-Chief
"We are talking of digital operation, we are talking of technology, the big threat that is coming to affect the conventional media. These are the challenges we need to take up. We need to merge the conventional media with the digital media and show things work seamlessly. We play into all this together to forge ahead and remain in business. That's very essential."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guangzhou/Cape Town.
(XHTV)