July 12, 2005

AEJMC Final Program

PROGRAMMING FOR THE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INTEREST GROUP
AEJMC
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
AUG. 9-13, 2005

TUESDAY, AUG. 9, 2005

11 am to 11:30 pm / 006

Civic Journalism and Community Journalism Interest Groups; Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University; Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Public Journalism Network

Workshop Session: Journalism and the Public: Restoring the Trust

Session I: The Wake Up Call: Is the Mass News Media in a Death Spiral? Can Trust, Quality Save It?

Moderating/Presiding: Leonard Witt, Kennesaw State and Cole Campbell, Nevada, Reno
Panelists: Philip Meyer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author Vanishing Newspaper
Dori Maynard, Maynard Institute

Session II: Breaking Away from Main Stream Traditions
Will Nonprofits, New Technologies, Citizen Journalism Restore the Trust or Are They More Nails in the Coffin?

Moderating/Presiding: Jay Rosen, New York

Panelists: Neil Chase, Deputy Editor, NYTimes.com
Jeff Jarvis, AdvanceNet, BuzzMachine
Charles Lewis, Founder of the Center for Public Integrity and President,
Fund for Independence in Journalism
Dan Gillmor, Author We the Media, Grassroots Journalism,
By the People, For the People

Session III: What Do You Mean Restore the Trust?
Have Groups Long Neglected by the Main Stream Media Now Found
Their Own Voices?

Moderating/Presiding: TBA

Panelists: George Cisneros, VuTure Art, Urban 15 Group, San Antonio
George White, UCLA Center for Communications and Community
Youth Voice

Session IV: Mass Media Meets Community and Niche Markets
Is the Roman Empire of Mass Media Disintegrating into Niche Media?

Moderating/Presiding: Peggy Kuhr, Kansas

Panelists: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Community News
Brett Thacker, Managing Editor, San Antonio Express-News
TBA

Dinner Session: What the News Media Future Will Look Like

Panelists: Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist.com
Bill Grueskin, Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal Online
Chris Nolan, Stand-Alone Journalist
Joel Hyatt, co-founder, Current TV (invited)

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 10

10 am to 11:30 am / 041

Community Journalism Interest Group

PF&R Panel Session: Care and Feeding of Community Journalism Centers

Moderating/Presiding: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Panelists: Al Cross, Kentucky
Gloria Freeland, Kansas State
Mary Glick, Associate Director, American Press Institute, Reston, VA
Eileen Gilligan, SUNY-Oswego
Tommy Thomason, Texas Christian
Chad Stebbins, Missouri Southern State

3:15 pm to 4:45 pm / 071

Mass Communication and Society, Media Management and Economics, Newspaper Divisions and Community Journalism Interest Group

Mini-plenary PF&R Panel Session: The Latino Media

Moderating/Presiding: Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Texas

Introduction: Janet A. Bridges, Sam Houston State

Panelists: Federico Subervi, Texas at San Marcos
Omar L. Gallaga, Editor, ahora sî, Austin American-Statesman
Edward Schumacher Matos, CEO, Rumbo papers
Gilbert Bailon, Al Dia, Dallas Morning News
Rosemary Scott, Research Director, San Antonio, Univision Radio
Clara Rivas, Telemundo affiliate, San Antonio, TX
Tino Duran, Owner, LaPrensa, San Antonio, TX
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THURSDAY, AUG. 11

11:45 am to 1:15 pm / 126

Community Journalism Interest Group

Refereed Paper Research Session: Connective Issues: Community Media as Focal Points

Moderating/Presiding: Bill Reader, Ohio

Life and Death in a Small Town: Cultural Values and Memory
in Community Newspaper Obituaries*
Janice Hume, Georgia
When Casinos Come to Town: How Iowa Newspapers Framed Gambling
Expansion and the Influence of these Frames on Citizen’s Approval or Rejection
of Casinos in their Counties**
Jason Michael Boucher, Iowa State
Back to the Future: Allegheny Mountain Radio and Localism
in West Virginia Community Radio
Maryanne Reed and Ralph E. Hanson, West Virginia

* Top Faculty Paper
** Top Student Paper

1:30 pm to 3 pm / 132

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Refereed Paper Poster Session: Scholar-to-Scholar

And reception for winners of AEJMC Divisions Top Student Papers sponsored by the School of Communication Studies, Bowling Green State

Community Journalism Interest Group
Promising Research in Community Journalism
54. Newsroom Leaders’ Perceptions of the Role of Copy Editors
at Community Newspapers
Corbin Crable, Anna Morelock and Amber Willard, Kansas State
55. Servicing the “Needy Mistress”: Commitment to People, Place,
and Mission as a Function of Family Newspaper Ownership
Susan Brockus, Purdue

Discussant: Bill Reader, Ohio

8:30 pm to 10 pm / 187

Community Journalism Interest Group
Business Session: Members’ Meeting: A Community Journalism Teaching Roundtable
Moderating/Presiding: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill


10:15 pm to 11:45 pm / 198

Community Journalism Interest Group
Business Session: Executive Committee
Moderating/Presiding: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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FRIDAY, AUG. 12

11:45 am to 1:15 pm / 236

Visual Communication Division and Community Journalism Interest Group

Luncheon Session: Visual Communication Division and Community Journalism Interest
Group Luncheon

Moderating/Presiding: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Community Photojournalism: Re-victimizing the Victims When They’re
Your Neighbors
Bob Bucknel, Publisher, The Azle News, Azle, Texas
Charles “Mac” McClure, Publisher, The Wimberley View, Wimberley, Texas
Russell Skiles, Publisher, The Lamesa Press-Reporter, Lamesa, Texas

Discussant: Loret Gnivecki Steinberg, Rochester Institute of Technology

5 pm to 6:30 pm / 273

Cultural and Critical Studies Division and Community Journalism Interest Group

PF&R Panel Session: Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award Winner:
Ronnie Dugger, Founding Editor, The Texas Observer
Moderating/Presiding: Alison Plessinger, Slippery Rock
Panelists: Fred Blevens, Oklahoma
Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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SATURDAY, AUG 13

10 am to 11:30 am / 329

Radio-Television Journalism Division and Community Journalism Interest Group

PF&R Panel Session: The Mic on Main Street: New Ways of Engaging Your Radio Audience

Moderating/Presiding: Denise Dowling, Montana
Panelists: Darren Dunn, KWED News Director, Texas
Hal Widsten, KWED General Manager, Texas
Maryanne Reed, West Virginia
Kathy McCleary, Director of Sales & Marketing, Northern Broadcasting System, Montana

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