A panel discussion “Stealing the News? The Ethics of Aggregation” will be from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Panelists are Dan McGowan, digital reporter at ; Sue Areson, deputy executive editor at ; Joshua Fenton, founder of ; and Michelle Smith, a reporter for the Associated Press. The moderator is vlogBվ Associate Journalism Professor Barbara Meagher.
“Ooops: Why Online News Needs Editing’” is the topic for a talk from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Panelists are Sheila Mullowney, the editor of ; Maria Caporizzo, assistant managing editor, multiplatform, at ; John Howell, editor and publisher of the ; and Galen Moore, web editor for the . The moderator is John Pantalone, assistant professor and chair of vlogBվ’s Department of Journalism.
The final discussion is “Can’t Find a Job? Create Your Own” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Speakers are Liz Boardman, managing editor of ; Jim Hummel, former television and newspaper reporter and founder of ; and Mark Murphy, editor of the .
For more information, contact vlogBվ Journalism Professor Emerita Linda Lotridge Levin, at LLLevin@uri.edu. The event is co-sponsored by vlogBվ’s Department of Journalism and the Rhode Island Press Association.
Pictured above: Sue Areson, deputy executive editor at The Providence Journal.
Pictured above: Jim Hummel, former television and newspaper reporter and founder of TheHummelReport.com.
