Where: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota

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See Change is an annual gathering for communication professionals across the visual spectrum. It’s a variety show of sorts featuring talent who do remarkable work. It’s a visual scrapbook enabling concepts beyond our skill sets to cross-pollinate. It’s a think tank to recharge our abilities and thought.

Cost:

$75: Members of partner organizations (including SPJ)

$90: Non-members

$25: Students

Seating is limited! Reserve before May 12, 2010.

Please register online at the School of Journal & Mass Communication registration page.

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Event presenting sponsor: WCCO-TV

What: CCE Headliners, December Edition featuring Nora Paul, Director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota

When: Thursday, December 3 | 7:00 p.m.

Where: U of MN Continuing Education and Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave., U of M St. Paul campus

Cost: $10

For most of the 20th century, newspapers were the primary source of information for the American public. At their best, they held governments and corporations to account and set the news agenda for the rest of the mass media. Until the early 1990s, the newspaper business was doing extremely well, earning staggering returns for its owners and shareholders. But more recently, it has been forced to rethink its place in a world of wireless communication.

Last year was the worst on record for the U.S. newspaper industry. Already hit hard by decreasing circulation and declining ad revenues, newspapers across the country laid off staff and cut editions to counter the combined effects of online competition and economic recession. Locally, the Star Tribune filed for bankruptcy protection in January, only emerging in late September. Just months after its workers agreed to concessions in bankruptcy, the St. Paul Pioneer Press opened discussions with its guild members seeking similar cuts.

Are today’s diminished news organizations capable of sustaining the informed citizenry on which democracy depends? Are newspapers an endangered species? Or are they just obsessing too much over the “paper” part of their names?

On December 3, join Nora Paul, founding director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies, as she explores new models for the news.

Who

Nora Paul was named the first director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2000. A seasoned journalist, researcher, and news librarian, she worked for nine years at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, one of the top journalism schools in the country, and served as the editor of information services at the Miami Herald from 1979-91 where she developed one of the earliest electronic news archives. A national authority on new media, she is the author of several books on the subject including Computer Assisted Research: A Guide to Tapping Online Information, which is now in its fourth edition.

Where and When

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Continuing Education and Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave., U of M St. Paul campus

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