Join the Twin Cities Media Alliance for a brown bag lunch Wednesday, October 22 with Paul Schmelzer, managing editor Minnesota Independent, and a winner of the prestigious Premack and SPJ Page One awards for journalistic excellence. Paul coordinated the Independent’s coverage of the RNC protests - a subject you can ask him about at lunch. Paul also writes the blog Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas, which appears regularly in the Twin Cities Daily Planet, and has written for Adbusters, Cabinet, Ode, Raw Vision, Utne and other publications.

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The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law will feature Rosemary Harold, Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, at its fall forum Thursday, October 23.

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…And Get it Published

When:  Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | 7:30 p.m.
Riverview Library - St. Paul

Last year, SPJ assembled a panel of experts to talk about the book business in Minnesota: agent or not agent, self-publishing, fiction and non-fiction, the marketability of your ideas…You asked us to assemble a new panel and do it again.  More »

From his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention to his nomination for the presidency, Sen. Barack Obama has challenged conventional wisdom about race, politics, media, and generation.

Participants at The Obama Effect conference will discuss the compelling issues and events that have surrounded Obama’s campaign.

All events are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, the Minnesota Journalism Center, and the Department of African and African American Studies.

This conference was conceived of and organized by Dr. Heather Harris Carter, Stevenson University, Dr. Kimberly Moffitt, University of Maryland, B.C., and Dr. Catherine Squires.

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The Twin Cities Media Alliance is facilitating the 4th Annual Fall Media Forum on “Tools for Democracy, Strategies for Change”. Confirmed presenters include local Fox 9 news anchor Robyne Robinson and Amalia Anderson from the Main Street Project.

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October 6, 2008 | 7:00 p.m.

Who is a journalist? What is “responsible journalism?” How do media law and ethics intersect? Is self-regulation effective – or even possible – in the digital age?

Siobhain Butterworth, readers’ editor for The Guardian in London, will consider these and other questions when she presents the 2008 Silha Lecture, “Raise Your Hand if You’re a Journalist: Does Responsible Reporting Need a Legal Defense?” on Oct. 6, 2008, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. More »

Jeremy Iggers, executive director of the the Twin Cities Media Alliance, will discuss increasing opportunities for citizens and alternative media to produce, distribute and respond to the news in the context of the election season. The event will take place at noon on Thursday, Sept. 25 at the Weisman Art Museum. More »

Mark your calendar today to attend the National Newspaper Association’s annual convention and trade show in St. Paul, September 25-28. The NNA convention is a terrific opportunity to network with peers, to see what’s new and available to our industry at the trade show, and to attend informative seminars and round table discussions.

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The Media and Law Enforcement at the RNC — What Went Wrong, What Went Right?

Monday, September 22 | 7:00 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
University of Minnesota East Bank

Journalists who reported from the RNC as well as representatives from law enforcement, city government and media law experts will join together in a discussion moderated by Al Tompkins from The Poynter Institute.

What happened during the RNC that led to so many journalists being arrested?  And how can journalists do their jobs in the future without a similar result? More »

Minnesota Public Radio presents Cokie Roberts at the Fitzgerald Theater on Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:00 p.m. Host Kerri Miller talks with Cokie Roberts about her latest book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation. The book is a look at the remarkable women who helped build our nation by facing challenges and becoming reformers and advocates for education, orphans and abolition. Roberts will also speak about the contemporary American political scene that she knows so well in her roles as senior news analyst for National Public Radio and as a regular roundtable analyst for ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

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