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Former US vice president and founder of Current TV Al Gore will give the keynote speech at this year's International Journalism Festival (IJF) .

The conference, which is now in its fourth year, will run from 21-25 April in Perugia, Italy, and features an extensive line-up of international journalists and media professionals.

Gore's keynote will be followed by speeches from El Pais editor Javier Moreno, editor-in-chief of ProPublica Paul Steiger and Luca De Biase, editor of the new media and technology supplement Nova24.

The running order for the event currently includes a mixture of panel discussions, on-stage interviews and documentary screenings with topics on the agenda ranging from citizen journalism in the Middle East to the impact of digital technologies on storytelling and the benefits and dangers of niche news.

Participating speakers also include: Josh Young, social media editor of The Huffington Post; Emily Bell, director of digital content Guardian News and Media; and Moeed Ahmad, new media editor of Al Jazeera. More details of the line-up can be downloaded at this link and some events will be livestreamed via the festival's website. The winners of the Digital Heretics Award , recognising innovative use of online tools to create a multimedia report, will also be announced at the event.

Journalism.co.uk is a media partner in the IJF and will be reporting from the event under the hashtag #ijf10.

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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