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Media & Democracy Congress in SF 2/29-3/3/96
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:03:23 -0800 From: felixk@panix.com (Felix Kramer) Subject: Media & Democracy Congress in SF 2/29-3/3/96
FIRST EVER MEDIA & DEMOCRACY CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 29-MARCH 3, 1996
Hundreds of journalists, producers, activists, students, and media makers of all kinds are coming together for an unprecedented national independent media conference. The Media & Democracy Congress is being coordinated by the San Francisco-based Institute for Alternative Journalism and has been called to respond to the recent tidal wave of media mergers and its implications for the future of journalism.
"The runaway pace of media concentration is undermining our country's democratic traditions," said Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and the author of The Media Monopoly. "Quality journalism -which includes news that informs and enlightens, a full range of political opinion and coverage of ordinary Americans -is seriously endangered as media properties merge, budgets are slashed, and independent news outlets fold."
Hundreds of journalists, editors, and producers are expected to attend from across the U.S. Featured speakers include: Barbara Ehrenreich (author), Jim Hightower (commentator), Denise Caruso (New York Times columnist), Urvashi Vaid (author), Salim Muwakkil (journalist), Ben Bagdikian, Farai Chideya (MTV News), Susan Faludi (author), Frank Rich (New York Times columnist), Suzanne Pharr (activist/writer), Juan Gonzalez (NY Daily News columnist), Robert Bray (National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) and George Gerbner (Dean Emeritus, Annenberg School of Communications).
The Congress main focus will be on strategizing ways to strengthen independent media and build future collaborations. Other highlights include the consideration of an "information Bill of Rights," proposing ten basic principles of a more equitable, participatory, and accountable media system, and an on site Training Institute and Cyber Cafe to provide tools to foster independent news media.
For more information about the Congress, send email to:
congress@alternet.org, or call 415-284-1420. All program and registration
information available on the World Wide Web:
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