CONFERENCE PROGRAM
9 AM CT: KEYNOTE ON LOCAL NEWS FROM BYRON PITTS (ABC NEWS)
9:45 AM CT: INNOVATIONS IN LOCAL NEWS
What new approaches can help overcome the challenges of doing local news now? How can publishers build sustainable business models to ensure their longevity and support continued community-focused reporting? In this session, leading publishers will discuss how they’re working to address these challenges.
- Moderator: Jospeh Lichterman, communication and editorial director, Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- Lauren Gustus, executive editor, Salt Lake Tribune
- Sara Lomax-Reese, president/CEO, WURD Radio (Philadelphia)
- Ayan Mittra, editor, Texas Tribune
- Manuel Torres, regional editor, The Marshall Project
10:45 AM CT: INTRODUCING THE SHADID CURRICULUM
Drawn from the outstanding journalism of those who have won or been named a finalist of the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, this new curriculum enables student journalists to place themselves in the position of making difficult journalistic decisions. This panel is specifically targeted towards journalism educators at the college and high school level.
- Kathleen Bartzen Culver, James E. Burgess Chair in Journalism Ethics, associate professor in UW–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and director of the Center for Journalism Ethics
- Luke Daniel Cross, UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication graduate student and Shadid Curriculum Fellow
- Martha Mendoza, 2016 Shadid Award winner and Associated Press reporter and Global Investigative Team member
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