The conference of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics at the University of Cologne, in cooperation with the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia dealt with:

Challenges and Opportunities of Internet-Based Media

The welcome speech was given by the director of the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Jürgen Brautmeier, the secretary of State for Media NRW, Marc Jan Eumann, and the director of the Department of Business Informatics and Information Management of the University of Cologne, and of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics, Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder. The first session dealt with economic challenges and opportunities of internet-based media. Presentations were given by Jürgen Sewczyk, director of JS Consult, Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder, and Prof. Dr. Horst M. Schellhaaß, director of the department of law and Political Science at the University of Cologne and of the Institute for Broadcasting and Economics.

The second session dealt with media-political challenges and opportunities of internet-based media. Referring to this topic Dr. Manfred Kops, director of the Institute for Broadcasting Economics., Stefan Moll, head of the editorial office for internet at the West German Broadcasting Corporation, and Doris Brocker, legal advisor at the Media Authority North Rhine-Westphalia, gave presentations.

The presentation slides of all speakers can be downloaded from the list below. All audio records of the presentations are available there (please click on the corresponding audio file). As soon as the speeches have been published in the Working Paper Series of the Institute, they also can be downloaded as pdf files).