When I arrived to give a seminar to the news staff at Beijing Youth Daily, I looked at all those young reporters and thought I’d probably tell a few stories about what it’s like to be a reporter in Miami, then beat a quick exit.

Can India’s theory-heavy journalism education face the challenges from the country’s media explosion? A group of young journalists from Indo-Asian News Service discussed media education and the emerging new media with Alberto Ibarguen, the president and CEO of the John S. and James L.

See pictures of Li Xiguang, the executive dean, with Alberto Ibarguen, president of the Knight Foundation; Anna Zhou, a second-year student in the program; and Alberto Ibarguen with Sam Grogg, the dean of communications at the University of Miami.

"Democracy in Azerbaijan: Goals and Challenges" broke new ground, allowing open discussion of sensitive topics, and bypassing traditional government-controlled media by using the Internet.One question I faced in the press conference we held a couple of days before the forum was: “How is your forum going to affect the election?”

This was an interesting question – and a pretty easy one to answer. The goal, I said, was not to affect the election. Everyone knows the president of Azerbaijan is going to be re-elected.