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Media attendance at CEDA events

To attend a CEDA event, please contact your local CEDA office.

CEDA makes every effort to ensure media can attend events and make use of speakers' contributions. For many events, we provide splitter boxes. In some cases, we produce audio MP3 files and transcripts after the event.

Please note that CEDA reserves the right to close events to media, or to impose the Chatham House Rule (see below).

Please check  the media status of events with your local CEDA office. To be notified about events in advance, please email CEDA.

Media questions

Speakers may make time before or after their speech for media interviews or doorstops, and CEDA will try to facilitate this. Please ask ahead of time if you would like to interview a speaker or CEDA spokesperson.

Media are asked not to question speakers during the event question-and-answer period except by prior arrangement with your local CEDA office.

Chatham House Rule

Some CEDA meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule. Everyone present is free to use the information received, but they cannot reveal the identity or affiliation of the speaker or any other participant, or that the information was received at a CEDA meeting.

The Chatham House Rule allows people to speak as individuals, and to express views that may not be those of their organisations. It thus encourages free discussion - a key aim of many CEDA functions.