Comments on: Free & Equal Posts U-Tube of CATO Ballot Access Event http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/10/17/free-equal-posts-u-tube-of-cato-ballot-access-event/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=7606 By: West Coast Free Speech / Media Impact Siminar http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/10/17/free-equal-posts-u-tube-of-cato-ballot-access-event/comment-page-1/#comment-779559 West Coast Free Speech / Media Impact Siminar Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:40:46 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=8583#comment-779559 "Saturday, October 24 is the date. The place is Southwestern Law School's Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute in Los Angeles. The event is FAC's annual Free Speech and Open Government Assembly, jointly sponsored by the Coalition, the Biederman Institute and the McCormick Foundation. For our colleagues in the ethnic media, some sessions will be conducted in Spanish and Vietnamese, as well as English. The program includes panel discussions on topics ranging from journalists' use of social media for reporting, to new online tools to track the influence of money on legislation, to journalism training sessions on how to get sophisticated, insider news stories (and avoid being "spun" by government officials on one hand, or union officials on the other) about: local police and the criminal justice system; public school financing and the ranking of schools and teachers; salaries and pensions of government employees; and much more. You'll hear our featured speakers: --2009 Pulitzer Prize winner ("public interest" category) and Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon (in a conversation with LA Times media columnist James Rainey) --Alex Jones, author of the just-released "Losing the News" and Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy." "Enjoy debates among our expert panelists, including: Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship; Geneva Overholser, Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism; Claudia Nuñez, La Opinion; Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com; Neil Budde, President, DailyMe; Ricardo Sandoval, Sacramento Bee; Mary Perry, EdSource; Kathryn Baron, Fellow, UC Berkeley; and LA Times reporters Mitchell Landsberg and Matt Lait. Check out the full program," Forwarded by Don Lake and Citizens For A Better Veterans Home ........... “Saturday, October 24 is the date. The place is Southwestern Law School’s Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute in Los Angeles. The event is FAC’s annual Free Speech and Open Government Assembly, jointly sponsored by the Coalition, the Biederman Institute and the McCormick Foundation.

For our colleagues in the ethnic media, some sessions will be conducted in Spanish and Vietnamese, as well as English.

The program includes panel discussions on topics ranging from journalists’ use of social media for reporting, to new online tools to track the influence of money on legislation, to journalism training sessions on how to get sophisticated, insider news stories (and avoid being “spun” by government officials on one hand, or union officials on the other) about: local police and the criminal justice system; public school financing and the ranking of schools and teachers; salaries and pensions of government employees; and much more.

You’ll hear our featured speakers:

–2009 Pulitzer Prize winner (“public interest” category) and Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon (in a conversation with LA Times media columnist James Rainey)

–Alex Jones, author of the just-released “Losing the News” and Director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.”

“Enjoy debates among our expert panelists, including: Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship; Geneva Overholser, Director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism; Claudia Nuñez, La Opinion; Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief, Wired.com; Neil Budde, President, DailyMe; Ricardo Sandoval, Sacramento Bee; Mary Perry, EdSource; Kathryn Baron, Fellow, UC Berkeley; and LA Times reporters Mitchell Landsberg and Matt Lait. Check out the full program,”

Forwarded by Don Lake and Citizens For A Better Veterans Home ………..

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