George Soros, the international financier and media philanthropist, and Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, the retiring director general of the World Health Organisation, and former prime minister of Norway, will address delegates at this years News Xchange conference in Budapest on 6-7 November.
George Soros has spent tens of millions of dollars supporting free and independent media in post-conflict countries..
Dr. Brundtlands keynote will focus on the the role the media play in covering health crises prior to an exhaustive study into the medias role in covering the SARS crisis as well as other health pandemics.