Free Journalism Workshop on June 28 to Focus on News Literacy

The New England News Forum will lead a free one-day workshop, "Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens," on June 28, 2008, at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

The workshop is designed for New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors and journalism teachers, citizen journalists and bloggers.

The workshop will focus on news literacy, with emphases given to:

• getting New England editors, reporters, educators and citizens fired up about helping with news literacy in the region
• giving teachers, professors and bloggers engaged in emerging citizen-journalism practices and multimedia/interactive tools.
• a roundtable discussion about the role of the New England News Forum in advancing news literacy.

Featured speakers include:
• Howard Schneider, former editor of Long Island Newsday and head of the national news-literacy curriculum development project at Stony Brook University
• former New York Times correspondent Doug McGill, who runs the Largemouth Citizen Journalism Workshops in Minnesota
• David Mathison, author of "Be The Media"
• Wayne Sutton, a community content manager for MyNC.com, a hyper-local news Web site produced by NBC TV affiliate WNCN in Raleigh-Durham, NC
• Leonard Witt, of Kennesaw State University, head of the Representative Journalism Project
• Helen Smith, executive director of the New England Scholastic Press Association
• Bill Densmore, director of the New England News Forum

The New England News Forum is organizing the workshop with the law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP; the New England Press Association; and the New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

The workshop will take place on Saturday, June 28, 2008, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the
University of Massachusetts Lowell (North Campus)
Alumni Library/Lounge
84 University Ave.
Lowell, Mass. 01854
978-934-4000.

To register or learn more about the workshop, please visit dbs.hosting.crocker.com/wiki/index.php/Sharing.

The New England News Forum is a non-profit collaboration among news professionals, citizen journalists, educators and the public to support independent, trusted, accountable journalism - and accountable government. The Forum strengthens relationships among news consumers and creators by considering coverage, access, accuracy, bias, fairness, ethics, emphasis, privacy, freedom of information and technology change. Learn more at NewEnglandNews.org.

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