The Poynter Institute and Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication present this third Ethics Workshop for working journalists. The workshop includes frank discussion, practical tips for working journalists and real case studies to dissect and debate. New topics this year include dilemmas for online journalism.
WHEN: Thursday, May 24, 2007; 9AM-4PM; 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
(Continental breakfast and buffet lunch included.)
WHERE: Kent Stark Professional Education and Conference Center, 6000 Frank Ave. NW, Jackson
Township, just minutes from Akron and Canton, and convenient to Cleveland and Columbus.
HOW: Register by phone, fax, email or mail $50 per person. Call Jan Leach or Darlene Contrucci at 330-672-8281 to register or for more information. Email jleach1@kent.edu or send form to Ethics Workshop, JMC, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001.
Speakers
Bob Steele asks and answers lots of questions on a wide range of ethics, values and leadership issues. As a Poynter faculty member since 1989, he’s taught hundreds of workshops and thousands of journalists and media leaders at Poynter seminars. He’s also led sessions for more than 85 news organizations across the country including television stations, newspapers and broadcast and newspaper groups. In addition to writing for Poynter Online, Steele has written articles, book chapters, and case studies and handbooks for RTNDA, ASNE, NPPA, SPJ and other professional organizations. He spent 10 years as a broadcast journalist (reporter, executive producer and news director) then earned a Ph.D. at the Univ. of Iowa writing his dissertation on journalism ethics. He also has a B.A. in economics from DePauw University and an M.S. from Syracuse University.
Kelly McBride is the ethics group leader at The Poynter Institute, where she helps journalists strengthen their ethical decision-making skills and improve their writing, reporting and editing skills. She has been on the Poynter faculty since 2002. In addition to running the Ethics Department, Kelly directs both of Poynter’s annual fellowship programs: Th e Poynter Fellowship for Young Journalists and Th e Poynter Ethics Fellows. Twice she has traveled to South Africa to lead seminars geared toward reporters working in a young democracy. Before coming to Poynter, Kelly worked as a reporter for 15 years, spending most of that time at Th e Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Wash. She covered crime and courts for six years and faith and ethics for eight years. Kelly has a BJ from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and an MA in religious studies from Gonzaga University.
Other GuestsLauren Rich Fine, former media analyst, Merrill Lynch
Kurt Franck, managing editor, Toledo Blade
Joe Hallett, political reporter, Columbus Dispatch
Tom Merriman, investigative reporter, Fox8 TV
Tom O’Hara, managing editor, The Plain Dealer
Denise Polverine, publisher, Cleveland.com
Connie Schultz, Pulitzer winning columnist, The Plain Dealer
Mizell Stewart, managing editor, Akron Beacon Journal
Stuart Warner, projects editor, The Plain Dealer
Co-sponsored by: Akron Beacon Journal
The Blade, Toledo
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Dispatch, Columbus
The Repository, Canton
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