AEJMC agenda 2006

COMMUNITY JOURNALISM INTEREST GROUP
AEJMC Convention program, 2006 San Francisco

Wednesday, Aug. 2:

10-11:30 a.m.
Connections that Matter: Theories and Methods for Researching Community Media
Community Journalism Interest Group and Graduate Education Interest Group
Moderating: Bill Reader, Ohio University
Panelists:

• Liz Hansen, Eastern Kentucky University
• Janice Hume, University of Georgia
• Steve Lacy, Michigan State University
• Wilson Lowrey, University of Alabama
• Lisa Coble-Krings, Master’s graduate, University of Kansas
  

1:30-3 p.m.
Refereed paper research session
Moderating: Bill Reader, Ohio

• Lisa Coble-Krings, Kansas, “Weekly Dilemmas: A Study of Community Journalism, Connections, and Ethics in Small Towns.” (top student paper)
• Yanela Gordon, Florida A&M, “The Historical Mission and Evolution of the Capital Outlook Newspaper.” (top faculty paper)
• J. Steven Smethers, Bonnie Bressers, Amber Willard, Linda Harvey, and Gloria Freeland, Kansas State, “No Union in Humboldt, Kansas: Readers’ Perceptions of Loss When a Community Loses Its Newspaper.”
  

3:15-4:45 p.m.
Other Voices, Other Newsrooms: Ethnic, Alternative, Urban and Community Media
Community Journalism Interest Group, Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual-Transgender Interest Group, Magazine Division, Religion and Media Interest Group
Moderating: Vikki Porter, Director, Knight New Media Center (Southern California and Berkeley)
Panelists and invited audience members:

• Sandy Close, Pacific News Service and New America Media
• Vanessa Carias, El Show de Vanessa Carias, and Avance magazine
• Daisy Hernandez, Colorlines magazine
• Jon Funabiki, San Francisco State
• Cynthia Laird, Bay Area Reporter
• Susan Moon, The Turning Wheel
  

Thursday, Aug. 3
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
What’s Next for Newspapers and for Journalism Education?
Newspaper Division and Community Journalism Interest Group
Moderating: Wilson Lowrey, Alabama
Panelists:

• Jerry Ceppos, former vice president/news, Knight Ridder, and former executive editor, San Jose Mercury-News
• Andrew DeVigal, co-principal of the interactive firm Devigal Design, San Francisco State
• Phil Meyer, author, The Vanishing Newspaper, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Mary Nesbitt, managing director, Readership Institute, Northwestern
• Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, The Institute for Interactive Journalism, Maryland
  

3:15-4:45 p.m.
Working Hurricanes Katrina & Beyond: Was There Any Way to Really Prepare?
Visual Communication and Community Journalism
Moderating: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Meg Spratt, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
• Norris Babin, publisher, Our Gulfcoast; co-publisher, Belle Chasse Watchman, Plaquemine’s Gazette, Belle Chasse, La.
• Sue Morrow, Sacramento Bee
• David Woo, picture editor, The Dallas Morning News
• Vincent LaForet, The New York Times
  

8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Members meeting:
Election of new officers followed by discussion: The Role of The Community Journalism Educator.
10:15 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.
Executive business meeting

Friday, Aug. 4:
8:15-9:45 a.m.
All in the Fishbowl: Campus Newspaper Initiatives with Community Newspapers
Community Journalism Interest Group, Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group
Moderating: Jock Lauterer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panelists:

• Andrea Breemer Frantz, Kristin Kile and Jamie Babbitt, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, “Getting Off the Island: Re-defining Student Community Identity Using Ingenuity and a Little Newsprint”
• Kevin Schwartz, general manager, Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Venise Wagner, San Francisco State
• Thom Lieb, Towson University
  

11:45a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Scholar-to-scholar

• Rita Colistra, North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “The Rumble in the Dark: Regional Newspaper Coverage of the West Virginia Buffalo Creek Mine Disaster of 1972.”
• Wilson Lowrey, Amanda Brozana, and Jean Mackay, Alabama, “Toward a measure of community journalism.”
  

Discussant: Bill Reader, Ohio

3:15 pm to 4:45 pm
Will Civic Journalism Become a Subset of the Citizen Journalism Movement?
Civic and Citizen Journalism and Community Journalism Interest Groups
Moderating: Cole Campbell, Nevada, Reno
Panelists:

• Cheryl Gibbs, Miami, Ohio
• Sharon Iorio, Wichita State
• Jan Schaffer, executive director, J-lab, The Institute for Interactive Journalism, Maryland
• Leonard Witt, Kennesaw State