This is a forwarded announcement from the folks at Northern Kentucky University about a forum they are holding on democracy and the press. Contact information is included in the message:
Hello, my name is Joe Graf and I am the public relations intern for the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement, located on Northern Kentucky University’s campus. I would like to take this opportunity to inform you about a free forum being held here at NKU on Thursday, March 4th. The forum is titled, “News in the Information Age: What happens to democracy if the presses stop?”
This free forum will be in the Student Union Ballroom and will open with a presentation by Princeton University economics professor Dr. Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, who is researching the impact on democracy when newspaper’s close. His focus has been northern Kentucky and Cincinnati after the closing of The Kentucky Post and The Cincinnati Post in December 2007. You can read his preliminary research at: http://wws-roxen.princeton.edu/wwseconpapers/papers/dp236.pdf.
Dr. Schulhofer-Wohl will join a panel after his remarks including: Rich Boehe, CEO of the E.W. Scripps Co.; Jacques Steinberg, a New York Times reporter who has covered media and education; M. E. Sprengelmeyer, owner and publisher of the Guadalupe County (N.M.) Communicator; and Dennis Hetzel, general manager of the Kentucky Enquirer.
This event could be a great learning experience for you as well as your program’s students. I would like to ask you to forward this information on to any students you feel would enjoy or benefit from this forum, professors, or anyone else you feel may be interested. If that does not work for you please send me an e-mail list and I would be more than glad to send it out.
We realize that many of you cannot attend the forum in person. So to facilitate, we will be streaming the forum live on ustream, and also feeding live to twitter (nkyforum). To access ustream, click on this link, www.ustream.com and enter NKYFORUM in the search box.
For additional information, please visit our website at http://civicengagement.nku.edu/index.php, or e-mail me personally at grafj [at] nku.edu.
Sincerely,
Joe Graf and Your friends at Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement
