Beirut – “Mediterranean narrative: complexity, media response and public opinion”: Beirut will host the 24th Annual Conference of COPEAM (Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual) on May 11-13 by the invitation of Lebanese public television Télé Liban. Inaugurated by the President of the Republic of Lebanon, S.E. Michel Aoun, during the opening ceremony on Friday, May 12. The conference will bring together senior executives from the Euro-Mediterranean broadcasting industry, audiovisual and cultural operators, regional institutional representatives. Communication in the age of “fake news”, the story telling as research of truth and constructive journalism will be the main topics of debate among the various speakers, from which the COPEAM associates will be inspired – during the proceedings of the next General Assembly chaired by Talal El Makdessi and Claudio Cappon, respectively COPEAM President and Secretary-General, for drafting of the final statement of the Beirut Conference. (9Colonne)