The Tumas Fenech Foundation for Education in Journalism, in association with the President’s Foundation for the Well-Being of Society (PFWS), is organising a national conference on ‘CSR: business, journalism and society’, at San Anton Palace, Attard, tomorrow between 2.30 and 6.30pm.

The conference is aimed at journalists, other members of the media, members of non-governmental organisations and corporate executives involved in decisions on corporate social responsibility and should prove to be an opportunity for debate and the imparting of information about the latest CSR initiatives.

It will feature three keynote speakers: Health Minister Chris Fearne; the managing director GeSI (Global e-Sustainability Initiative), Luis Neves; and Cheryl Rosario, director of Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropy at Wyndham Worldwide.

There will be two panel discussions, the first on the ‘Practical aspects of CSR’, chaired by President Emeritus Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, chairman of the Foundation; and the other, chaired by Ruth Farrugia, director general of the PFWS, will discuss ‘Ethical implications of CSR’.

The Foundation, which was established following the demise of Tumas Fenech, founder of the Tumas Group, has been working under the chairmanship of Dr Mifsud Bonnici for almost two decades. Its major focus is media education, and among its major achievements was the prompting of the establishment of the BA Journalism Course at MCAST. It regularly holds seminars, conferences and targeted sessions of benefit to the local media.