Wednesday, November 5, 2008

News has a future? Let's talk about that

The University of Montana School of Journalism will be co-hosting a Webcast on the future of the news business. You can be part of it on Monday, Nov. 10, at 4:30 in the afternoon in Room 316. It will probably last until about 6.

Hope you can attend. This is from the news release on the event:

WASHINGTON – The National Press Club, the world’s leading professional
organization for journalists, will Webcast a forum on the future of the
news business to journalism schools at six Western universities.

The Nov. 10 event will be found on the Web at www.visualwebcaster.com/NPCforum.

This NPC Centennial Forum will feature leading national journalists:

Donna Leinwand, national correspondent for USA Today and Club vice
president;

Ed Henry, White House correspondent for CNN;

Amar Bakshi, who spent the last year traveling the world to produce a
Web series “How the World Sees America” that appeared on the Washington
Post and Newsweek Web sites;
and
Mark Jurkowski, associate director of the Project for Excellence in
Journalism.

The panel will be moderated by Gil Klein, a veteran national
correspondent, former National Press Club president and director of the
Club’s Centennial Forums program.

People watching the Webcast will be able to ask questions of the
panelists in real time either by e-mail through the Webcast or by sending an e-mail to NPCforum@gmail.com.

This forum is part of a nationwide conversation the National Press Club
is holding during its 100th anniversary to look at where the news
business is going and what news consumers should be demanding. Schedules
and video highlights of forums in other states can be found on the
Club’s Web site: www.press.org.

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