On 22th June Nikkei, Columbia Journalism School and Sophia University will hold "The Future of Journalism" at Sophia University.We welcome Nadine Natua, the creator of the movie "RBG" which depicts the life of the US Supreme Court justice, and experts in media research and veteran journalists from Japan and the U.S. will discuss about the subject of journalism and diversity.

【Program】
13:00～13:05　Opening Remark
13:05～13:25　Opening Remark by Dr. Coll
13:25～13:55　Keynote Speech
13:55～14:10　Break
14:10～15:40　Panel Discussion 　Journalism and Diversity

*Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
*Program maybe subject to change.

【Speakers】
Nadine Natour
Nadine Natour is the associate producer for the film "RBG," the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary which was nominated for an Academy Award and premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She has shot, field produced and edited the feature-length documentary "American Veteran," which screened at 20 festivals and won the 2017 Panavision Showcase Award for New York filmmakers. She co-edited "The Sturgeon Queens," which screened at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival and 60 others, winning 10 Audience Choice Awards. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she holds a Master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism. 

Seiko Noda
Seiko Noda joined the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, after graduating from Sophia University Foreign Language Department, Comparative Culture Major in 1983,. After being elected for the first time in the 40th House of Representatives’ general election in July 1993, she has served nine consecutive terms. In 1998, she first entered the Cabinet as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. In the Liberal Democratic Party, she served as Chairperson for Research Commission on Consumer Issues and Chairperson for Policy Research Council. After serving as Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment, Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System , her current post is the Chairperson of the Committee on Budget, the House of Representatives.

Steve Coll
Dean of Columbia Journalism School since 2013, is a staff writer at the New Yorker, the author of eight books of nonfiction, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Between 1985 and 2005, he was a reporter, foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post. There he covered Wall Street, served as the paper’s South Asia correspondent, and was the Post’s first international investigative correspondent, based in London. He served as managing editor of the Post between 1998 and 2004. The following year, he joined the New Yorker, where he continues to write on international politics, American politics and national security, intelligence controversies and the media.

Janine Jaquet
Janine Jaquet is the Associate Dean of Alumni and Development, Strategy and Professional Programs. She oversees the professional education and professional prizes divisions at the school, as well as the alumni and development department. Before joining the Journalism School, she served as vice president of development at the New York Historical Society and worked at the Nation Institute. She has been a newspaper reporter and an Emmy-winning television producer, working in news, public affairs and documentary programming. She has taught writing at several universities, including at Johns Hopkins and New York universities.

Yoshihiro Oto
After working for the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, Prof.
Oto joined Tokyo's Sophia University in 1994, where he currently teaches journalism and
literature. He was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University and a researcher at
the General Affairs Research Bureau of the House of Representatives.

Ruri Abe
Ruri Abe is an Associate Professor at the Sophia University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Journalism. She completed Ph.D. at London School of Economics and Political Science（University of London）.She had been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB), University of East London from 2016 to 2017. Her research fields are Media Investigation and Sociology. She wrote ”Globalization and Media”, a chapter of ”Introductory Book of Sociology of Transnational Relations”(2017, Nakanishiya Publishing) and ”The Birth of TRT6, Public Broadcasting in Kurdish: The Challenge and The Limit of Turkey”, a chapter of ”The Nationality of Journalism”(2015, Keio University Press Inc.) and so on. Now, she is mainly researching on Media and Diversity. 

Yuri Momoi
Yuri Momoi entered Nikkei Inc. in 1995 after graduating the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics. She had been a correspondent at Hong Kong Bureau and at the Editorial Head Quarters for China in Beijing from 2003 to 2007. Before assuming the current post, she had reported industrial and political news. She was born in 1970.