*New*: The Knight Foundation has released a video series, "The Digital Revolution & Democracy" featuring interviews and clips from FOCAS 2011. Watch it here, and join the discussion with the Twitter hashtag #infoneeds.
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and The Aspen Institute will host the third event in their four-part series, “Conversations on Civility: Making Our Democracy Work,” on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 in Washington, D.C.
On October 17 the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will release the final in a series of eight white papers aimed at implementing the recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. The paper—“Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide” by Richard C. Harwood—proposes four guideposts and nine strategies for communities to assess and build a healthy information...
P.J. Crowley, former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs; Dana Priest, The Washington Post; Ira Rosen, Producer, “60 Minutes,” CBS News; Kristen Saloomey, Al Jazeera; Eric Schmitt, The New York Times; Moderator: Josh Gerstein, Politico
More than 100 Socrates participants from 10 countries and around the U.S. convened in Aspen, CO from June 24-27 to participate in the 2011 Summer Socrates seminars.
To mark the release of Barbara Cochran’s new white paper, Rethinking Public Media: More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive, and discuss its implications, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are hosting a high-level roundtable discussion featuring leaders and critics of public media and policy-makers on Wednesday, December 8, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Cosmos Club. Event is invitation only. More...
At the 27th Aspen Institute Annual Awards Dinner, Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. and Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation, discuss leadership, politics and education with Christiane Amanpour, anchor of ABC's "This Week."
