Dear friends: If you 'do' journalism, or teach journalism, or are
just interested in ethics, I invite you, tomorrow, to follow "The
Future of Ethical Journalism" on your laptops! Because travel is
expensive and seats limited, we have built substantial ways for
people to participate digitally.
This is the first annual journalism ethics conference for the Center
for Journalism Ethics at the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication at UW-Madison.
The conference will be streamed live to
<http://www.journalismethics.info>www.journalismethics.info starting
at about 8:45 a.m. Central and continue to 5 p.m. Central.
On the site, Friday morning, you will see links that will allow you
to participate in:
1. live-blogging via CoveritLive, to read posts of insights from the
conference, comment on them and ask questions
2. a Twitter thread for microblogging updates, #uwethics
3. a blog for more thematic posts and comments, during and after the
conference
4. streaming and archived video
Panelists and moderators are local, national and international
journalists and scholars.
The sessions are:
SESSION 1 9 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
Surviving the Media Carnage: Pathways to Good Journalism
SESSION 2 10:35 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Ethical Situationals: Tough Calls in the Newsroom
SESSION 3 1:05 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Media Accountability: A Dialogue with the Public Editor of the New York Times
SESSION 4 2:05 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
The Future of Investigative Journalism
SESSION 5 3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
New Media, Ethics and Democratic Journalism
Panelist info and a full program are posted at
<http://www.journalismethics.info/conference_2009/program.html>http://www.journalismethics.info/conference_2009/program.html
I hope you'll participate and encourage your students to do so. I'm
looking forward to a robust exchange.
Stephen J. A. Ward
James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics
Director, Center for Journalism Ethics
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
