2008

Wednesday, February 20th

7:30pm

The Future of Newsrooms

Everyone is talking about the future of the newsroom in this new digital world where young people get their news from YouTube and Facebook, and traditional print journalists have seen hundreds of their brethren laid off or bought out. Join us for a discussion of how these changes are affecting journalists. What can media workersÌøåÀå_ unions do? Should journalists hurry up and learn how to blog and podcast before itÌøåÀå_s too late?

Featured speakers:
*Jeanne Carstensen, Salon.com Managing Editor
*Louis Freedberg, California Media Project Director and San Francisco Chronicle former editorial writer
*Luther Jackson, San Jose Newspaper Guild Executive Officer
*Matt Mansfield, San Jose Mercury News Deputy Managing Editor

SPONSORED BY

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

LOCATION

Room 105 - North Gate Hall

Get directions to Room 105 - North Gate Hall