Twin Cities Media Alliance¡¦s
3rd Annual Public Forum
LIFE AFTER NEWSPAPERS?
Saturday, November 3, 2007
9am-3pm
MEDIA CONTACT: Tracy KS Yue, Event Coordinator, Twin Cities Media Alliance
612 436 9188, cell 612.770 4488, tracy@tcdailyplanet.net
In the age of YouTube and corporate media take-overs, what¡¦s the future
of Twin Cities journalism?
National media reform advocate Robert McChesney, plus Twin Cities media
veterans Joel Kramer, Steve Perry, Brian Lambert and many other editors
and media analysts will weigh in at Life After Newspapers? Challenges and
Opportunities for New Media and Citizens, a free public forum organized by
the Twin Cities Media Alliance on Saturday, November 3, 2007, 9am-3pm, at
the Minneapolis Central Library on Nicollet Mall.
The local media industry has been seriously shaken up the past year with
the sales of both daily papers, the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press,
and the subsequent departure from those newspapers of some of the Twin
Cities¡¦ best-known journalists.
“Throw in some new online start-ups, a sizeable pool of free agents and
the instant-publishing of blogs, and you have a fascinating, much more
volatile media scene,¡¨ says Twin Cities Media Alliance executive director
(and former Star Tribune staff writer) Jeremy Iggers. ¡§Our annual Public
Forum series brings journalists and citizens together to discuss what
those changes mean for us as news producers and news consumers.¡¨
Keynote speaker Robert McChesney, author, professor and founder of Free
Press [www.freepress.net], a national, nonpartisan media reform
organization, will address the latest policy battles over media and
communications and their impact on democracy.
Two panels of local media watchers will discuss the shifting Twin Cities
landscape. Panel #1 focuses on the roles and careers of journalists, while
Panel #2 focuses on the roles of citizens. After an informal lunch, short
workshops on media reform, citizen journalism and community blogging will
be offered in the afternoon. In addition, the morning session will
include ¡§EPIC2015¡¨, a short ¡§mockumentary¡¨ film about the future of
media created by Matt Thompson of the Star Tribune.
Panelists and workshop leaders include:
- Keynote speaker Robert McChesney, author and founder of Free Press
- Joel Kramer, former publisher of Star Tribune & founder of new
(www.minnpost.com)
- Steve Perry, former City Pages editor and creator of (www.dailymole.com)
- Brian Lambert, former Pioneer Press reporter and columnist at The Rake
- Matt Thompson, Star Tribune¡¦s deputy editor of interactive content
- Eric Black, former Star Tribune reporter and blogger (www.ericblackink.com)
- Nora Paul, director of the Institute for New Media Studies, U of M
- Michael Caputo, MPR¡¦s Public Insight Journalism project
- Janis Lane-Ewart, executive director, KFAI community radio
- Mary Turck, editor, Twin Cities Daily Planet, (www.tcdailyplanet.net)
- Dan Haugen, community reporter & blogger, (www.northeastbeat.com)
- Rich Broderick, journalism professor and blogger
- Doug McGill, author and former New York Times reporter (www.mcgillreport.org)
TCMA¡¦s 3rd Annual Public Forum is sponsored by Friends of the Minneapolis
Public Library. The event is free and open to all, but registration is
required. Register at www.tcdailyplanet.net/nov3forum or email
forum@tcdailyplanet.net, or leave message at tel 612 436 9188.
– Note: the lunch session itself is limited to 80 persons; please reserve
your seat & boxed lunch in advance.
– Books on sale provided by Magers and Quinn.
ABOUT TWIN CITIES MEDIA ALLIANCE
Twin Cities Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization that brings
together media professionals and engaged citizens to improve the quality,
accountability and diversity of the local media. The Twin Cities Media
Alliance is the publisher of the Twin Cities Daily Planet
(www.tcdailyplanet.net) an online community newswire service and portal
with more than 40 local media partners.
ABOUT KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Robert W. McChesney is professor of communication at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters,
on WILL-AM radio, and founder of Free Press. He has written more than ten
books on media and politics, including the award-winning Rich Media, Poor
Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (New Press, 2000), and
2007¡¦s Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of
Media. [www.robertmchesney.com]
Additional Information:
What: Life After Newspapers? Challenges and Opportunities for New Media
and Citizens A free public forum about local media issues and its impact
on readers, journalists, citizens and society. Keynote speaker Robert
McChesney of Free Press, a media reform organization.
When: Saturday, November 3, 9am to 3pm
Where: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis
Cost: Free for all Forum presentations and workshops; $7 for boxed lunch.
Donations can be given in support of Twin Cities Media Alliance.
Forum agenda & schedule is available at www.tcdailyplanet.net/nov3forum
For further event information, call Twin Cities Media Alliance at 612 436
9188, or email tracy@tcdailyplanet.net.
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