Media events / alerts

• 3/30/06: Who Needs Ink? The Future of Newspapers, Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, San Jose

• 4/20/06 - 4/23/06: Spring National Scholastic Journalism Convention, San Franciso

• 3/30/06

Who Needs Ink? The Future of Newspapers

Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, San Jose

What is the future of newspapers, and who will decide it? Will competition from the Internet, broadcast and other sources of information doom the journalism that newspapers have provided to broad groups of readers? Is that journalism essential, or will it become irrelevant? What's best for employees, readers and advertisers - and will that make any difference? The move to sell Knight Ridder, with a current market capitalization of about $4.1 billion, shows that the stakes are high. What do financial analysts see as the current and future trends for print media? Join us as these questions and more will be discussed by our panel of news media experts.

Panel Members:

• Peter P. Appert, CFA, Publishing/Information Services Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
• Jerry Ceppos – retired V.P., Knight Ridder, editor in residence, SJSU
• Dan Gillmor – author, We, the Media; Blogger, Bayosphere.com
• Joan Walsh – editor-in-chief, Salon.com
  

Moderator: Jim Bettinger – director, Knight Fellowships Program, Stanford University

March 30, 2006
6:30 p.m. Registration; 7-8 p.m. Program

City Council Meeting Rooms, San Jose City Hall,
201 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose

$10 Commonwealth Club members; $15 non-members; students free
For reservations, please call 1-800-847-7730 or register online at www.commonwealthclub.org/sv.html

Co-Sponsored by: Knight Fellowship Program, Stanford University; Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter

• 4/20/06 - 4/23/06

Spring National Scholastic Journalism Convention

April 20-23, 2006
San Franciso Hilton

Journalism Education Association

In April, approximately 5,000 teenagers from around the country will gather at the San Francisco Hilton for a national high school journalism convention. (If you would like more information about this conference, please go to http://www.jea.org/workshops/spring06/sanfran06.html.)

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