What will IPC look like at QMUN 3.0?

International Press Corps has expanded! As opposed to the registered 10 delegates of the last conference, QMUN 3.0 has registered 15 different News Corporations! Because of this, you can expect a more variety in articles/deliverables in terms of International Representation, perspective/bias, and the quantity at which deliverables are released. QMUN 3.0 has registered AfricaNews, Al Jazeera, Buzzfeed, CNN, Reuters, Russia Today, The South China Morning Post, The BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, FOX News, Islamic Republic News Agency, Australian Associated Press, Korean Central News Agency, and Human Rights Watch. You can find their schedules/committees on the IPC Background Guide for QMUN 3.0 which is under the Delegate Resources tab and under the 'Committees' tab on the QMUN website!

Though International Press Corps is running almost identical to the last iteration, there have been a few changes made. Requirements for position papers and deliverables are the same, but QMUN has decided to run a Press Conference scheduled after the fourth committee session! What this means is more interviews/direct testimony from delegates in committee, in-depth ideas and perspectives, and the opportunity for IPC delegates to ask questions, probe, and even get delegates to reveal their motives in committee! The Press Conference opens up a whole lot of opportunities for all delegates!

All in all, Press for QMUN 3.0 is a much more organized, thought-out, and revised experience for our Editors in Chief. QMUN staff took what worked and didn't work from the first iteration to make IPC ultimately more fulfilling. The Press is an important part of our world. Without information and knowledge about what's happening on a daily basis, citizens are less likely to know when their rights are being infringed on, when their country/nation is breaking policy/going against the wishes of the people, or even when they are being denied access to services/goods that are being provided to the people in other areas of the world. It's important to know what's going on; that's why QMUN runs the International Press Corps. Delegates, regardless of which committee they are placed in, will receive documentation of the events that occur in their committee. This means a delegate, who might not have caught that there was specific clause in a resolution targeting a certain delegate, could get some insight into the motives of a bloc they may not have been wary of. Or perhaps a chair/director wants to know which delegate had the poignant speech, but was busy responding to messages/questions.

Press is important. Every Editor in Chief that had the opportunity to participate at QMUN should know that they play an incredibly important role in creating an environment that encourages anti-censorship, not just on the scale of our little conference, but in the world. What IPC represents, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, is a human right.

Press Conference Deliverables