Special Conference Deal for PJNet Readers
This from Bill Densmore at Media Giraffe who did a podcast with me yesterday about my Reinventing Journalism paper:
Please pass along a last-minute break to PJNET subscribers who would like to attend “Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World,” at the Univ. of Mass. at Amherst, June 28-July 1. We have an all-star cast–both known bright lights and emerging ones.
WHO’S COMING: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/
HIGHLIGHTS: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/highlights/
LATEST NEWS: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/news
FULL SCHEDULE: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/program.pdf
EVENt: “Democracy & Independence: Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World,” June 28-July 1, 2006, University of Massachusetts Amherst. A combination roundtable summit, workshop and conference on how the web and multimedia are redefining journalism and participatory democracy. For media, politics, education and technology visionaries and practitioners. Organized by The Media Giraffe Project at UMass and sponsored in part by the university, The Boston Globe, MassLive/The Springfield Republican newspaper, the New England Press Association, Omidyar Network and the Ford Foundation. Speakers and attendees include White House press corps dean Helen Thomas, Boston.COM Editor Teresa Hanafin, Common Cause President Chellie Pingree, NOLA.COM editor Jon Donley and many others.
For details of special registration discounts for PJNET members go to here.
