For Immediate Release
Contact: Erin Silliman
Project Manager, Communications and Society Program
Tel. 202.736.5818 Fax. 202.467.0790
Email: [email protected]
For details: www.aspeninstitute.org/focas
The Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program’s 2009 Forum on Communications and Society will be held in Aspen, Colorado and open for observation by the media by RSVP only.
WHO: Participants include (among many others):
- Madeleine Albright, Albright Stonebridge Group
- Gordon Crovitz, Journalism Online, LLC
- Alberto Ibargüen, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Marissa Mayer, Google
- Craig Newmark, craigslist
- Theodore B. Olsen, MediaNews Group
- Rey Ramsey, One Economy Corporation
- Paul Sagan, Akamai
- Vivian Schiller, National Public Radio
- Stephen Shepard, City University of New York (CUNY)
- William Dean Singleton, MediaNews Group, Inc.
- Paul Steiger, ProPublica
WHAT: The Forum on Communications and Society Plenary Roundtable discussion topics include:
- American Journalism’s Relationship to Democracy
- The Business Realities of Journalism, 2009
- Journalistic Ecosystems for Large Communities
- Models for Hyper-Local Approaches
- New Online Payment Systems for Journalism
WHEN: Monday, August 17, 2009 – Wednesday, August 19, 2009
WHERE: Doerr-Hosier Center at the Aspen Institute Aspen Meadows Campus, 1000 North Third Street, Aspen, Colorado 81611
Please RSVP: [email protected] or 202.736.5818
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