Reinventing Journalism and Yourself

Reinventing Journalism and Yourself:  One Tweet, One Friend at a Time

 AEJMC Pre-Convention Conference

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
4:00PM - 9:30PM
The Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts 

Registration has been closed

       

What role will social media and social networking play in helping reinvent and preserve journalism?  

how to invest in Facebook Find out at this information-packed social networking mini-conference
 --  priced especially for these hard times.

So what does $40* buy in these hard times?

Thanks to the underwriting of the Journalism Department at Baruch College, your $40 includes journalism and social media panels and a free, unconference buffet networking dinner to the first 100 to register. 

You will hear and share cutting edge ideas and then dine and network with the likes of:

• Joshua Benton, Director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
  
  
• Marcela Garcia, Editor of El Planeta
  
  
• Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship
  
  
• Sandeep Junnarkar, former New York bureau chief of CNET News.com
  
  

• Dan Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University and a regular panelist on Beat the Press, a weekly media roundtable on WGBH-TV (Channel 2)

• Harold S. Lewis is the Business Development Officer for the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University and also a Distinguished Lecturer of Professional Practice for the Department of Communication with KSU.

• Persephone Miel, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School
  
  
• Geanne Rosenberg, Chair of the Journalism Department at Baruch College
  
  
• Doc Searls, Senior Editor of Linux Journal and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto
  
  
• Lisa Williams, Founder of Placebloggers.com
  
  
• Leonard Witt,  Executive Director of the new Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University
  
  
• Suzanne Yada, whose self description reads  “was a copy editor, is now a student and will be the future of journalism.”

Become part of their social and intellectual networks.

how to invest in Facebook shares *Note:  The conference fee is $40 to the first 100 to register.

One Tweet, One Friend at a Time

Sponsored by:

The Harnisch Foundation Collaborative Projects at City University of New York's Baruch College

 Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University         

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