Intermagmeeting in Vienna, October 29-30, 2017

Draft minutes

Participants:

Gudrun Gutt, ORF

Julia Varga, ORF

Ingrid Thörnqvist, SVT

Mateusz Piekut, SVT

Nils Kopp, BR

Elin Röstad, NRK

Udo Biss, NDR

Alexander Feist, DW

Kathrin Lemke, DW

1. Presentation of members

ORF-program Mittag in Österreich, mo-fri, 43 min mix of Austria and some international content. Stories 2-3 min or longer.

Euroblick

BR- program. 5-6 min long items. Alpen Donau Adria is cooperating with Euroblick.

SVT News

The two members are traditional Tv-newsprograms with items ranging between 2-4 min. Online content is a part of SVT News

And produces 1-7 minute picture driven stories, without sound, explainers.

Ostseereport

Celebrates 30 year anniversary. All content made by NDR- even with own diving team! 5-10 min length of stories about Baltic Sea region.

Focus on Europe

DW makes 3-4 own stories per week at the length of about 3-6 min. DW also makes webbvideos ”DW-stories”.

Euromaxx

DW-program about lifestyle, culture, food, fashion. About 4 min stories. Also produces social media and web videos. Euromaxx wants European stories.

Urix

NRK:s foreign news program mo-thur. Makes own stories and takes from other EBU-members. 2-4 min.

Fee

The meeting decides to keep the same fee as last year of 500 Euros a year. DW:s Alexander Feist will check the present economic situation. He is replacing Dagmar Michel in this important task to handle the money.

Rights

The meeting decided to check with their stations about rights for members to use exchanged material on all platforms, like web and social media.

New members

The meeting appointed Gudrun Gutt as international ambassador for Intermag since she is widely represented within many EBU-committees. Gudrun will make a presentation of Intermag at the News Assembly in Amsterdam in November to attract new members.

EBU visit

Ray Colgan, news editor at the EBU was invited to the meeting. He expressed EBU:s interest in sharing more feature stories up to 10 min. Especially Eastern Europe could be interested because of financial problems.

He was happy to invite Gudrun to make a presentation at the assembly.

Ray pointed out that the EBU has a category called ”Look at this” which contains feature stories. Asked about online-content, Ray admitted this was ”a slower boil”.

Slack

The meeting approved Mateusz proposal of using Slack as a communication channel for the members. Every member has got an initiation to the Slack group.

Intermag webbsite

Mateusz took on the task of refreshing the website with a better presentation of the Intermag exchange.

Elections

Ingrid Thornqvist was elected as president of Intermag for one more year.

Next meeting

The decision was postponed until Gudrun has made her pitch at the EBU News assembly. If new members turn up the annual meeting might adjust the location to attract them with the screening session.

Screening session

Many wonderful stories were shown and exchanged during the screening session.

Meeting closed

With a great thank you to Gudrun and Julia from ORF for hosting us and arranging a very nice dinner and lunch – and some wonderful homemade cakes.

/Ingrid

Amendment:

Due to family reasons, I could not attend the Vienna meeting this year, I´m sorry. For a year now I'm retired after decades at Swedish Television, SVT. This makes me wonder if I will or should continue as CC for Intermag. You all have been very inspiring and a pleasure to meet all the times.

How to continue with Intermag CC work, I think you must give a thought.

With best regards

Allan, CC