Tarptautinis akademinis Romo Sakadolskio žurnalistikos forumas

Abstract

The Romas Sakadolskis Journalism Forum is a discussion platform that brings together Lithuanian and foreign journalism professionals, media researchers and future journalists. Romas Sakadolskis is a Lithuanian and American journalist, a long-time correspondent for Voice of America, and the head of the Lithuanian desk. He was present at all the major events of Lithuania's independence and spoke about them to the audience. Sakadolskis brought to Lithuania a Western understanding of the media: working as a lecturer at Vytautas Magnus and Vilnius Universities, he taught his students correct, fact-based journalism, and dreamt of real journalistic investigations. The event featured presentations by Augustinas Šemelis, Laisvė Radzevičienė, Agnė Narušytė, Audronė Nugaraitė, Antanas Jonušas, Raimondas Kuodis, Liudas Ramanauskas, Laurynas Šeškus and James LeMay, as well as a discussion on the topic of "How does the media prepare for work in the event of a crisis, a conflict, an extreme situation?", which was broadcasted by the portals of lrt.lt, delfi.lt, and 15min.lt live on air. In order to draw attention to the genres of journalism, the quality of journalists' work and outlook, the event featured the presentation of awards: the Romas Sakadolski Scholarship, the Romas Sakadolski Journalism Awards and the Young Journalists' Award.