Will Old Media Paradigms Shift Into the New Media World?

The panel Will Old Media Paradigms Shift Into the New Media World? will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, April 20th, in Hemisphere A.

Description
A discussion among print and broadcast journalists, in addition to bloggers and social media mavericks about the differences and similarities between the old media &amp; the new media worlds. Specifically talk about the constructs of gender equality &amp; how the "old boys club" may have found a new home within the political blogosphere; destruct the idea of gatekeepers &amp; agenda setters online; talk about how issue advocacy &amp; journalism must change to be effective within the online space, while still maintaining the integrity of information.

Speakers

 * Steve Roberts - Steve Roberts has been a journalist for more than 40 years, covering some of the major events of his time, from the antiwar movement and student revolts of the 60s and 70s to President Reagan's historic trip to Moscow in 1988 and eleven presidential election campaigns. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in 1964, he joined the New York Times as research assistant to James 'Scotty' Reston, then the paper's Washington bureau chief. His 25-year career with the Times included assignments as bureau chief in Los Angeles and Athens, and as Congressional and White House correspondent. He was a senior writer at U.S. News for seven years, specializing in national politics and foreign policy. Roberts and his wife, TV journalist Cokie Roberts, write a nationally-syndicated newspaper column that was named one of the ten most popular columns in America by Media Matters. In February of 2000 Steve and Cokie published From This Day Forward, an account of their marriage, as well as other marriages in American history. The New York Times called the book “inspiring and instructive” and it spent seven weeks on the Times best-seller list. Roberts also writes a bi-monthly column, Hometown, for Bethesda Magazine. His childhood memoir, My Fathers' Houses, was published in the spring of 2005 and was featured at the National Book Festival in Washington. His newest book about recent immigrants to America titled, From Every End of This Earth, will be published in the fall. A well-known commentator on many Washington-based TV shows, Roberts also appears regularly as a political analyst on the ABC radio network and is a substitute host on NPR's Diane Rehm Show. As a teacher, he lectures widely on American politics and the role of the news media. Since 1997 he has been the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, where he has taught for the last 17 years. His many honors include the Dirksen Award for covering Congress, the Wilbur Award for reporting on religion and politics, the Bender prize as one of GW's top undergraduate teachers, and four honorary doctorates. He's been named a Father of the Year by the Father's Day Council and received the Public Service Sector Award from the Aspen Institute. Steve and Cokie have two children: Lee, a real estate investor in Raleigh, NC, and Rebecca, a journalist in Washington, and six grand-children. In his spare time, Roberts is an avid gardener and tennis player.
 * Garrett Graff - Garrett M. Graff is an editor at Washingtonian magazine, where he covers media and politics and serves as internet director. He also teaches graduate-level internet theory and social media at Georgetown University. His first book, “The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House,” laid out the impact of technology on the 2008 presidential race. Previously, Graff was the first blogger accredited to cover a White House press briefing, served on Howard Dean's presidential campaign, and was the Vermont governor's first webmaster. His writing and commentary has appeared in publications like the Washington Post, The New York Times, Wired, the Politico, and the Huffington Post, and he's spoken to audiences ranging from Princeton University and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to the Defense Department and Google. In 2008, he was named as one of four young “new media” journalists to watch by PRWeek.


 * Amanda Terkel - Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Managing Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress. Amanda also served as the Center's Special Assistant for Strategic Planning. Her past positions have been with the Office of Senator Charles E. Schumer, the Office of the New York State Attorney General, the 2004 presidential campaign of Senator Joseph Lieberman, and the Office of the Inspector General in the Office of Personnel Management. She graduated from Colgate University. Her writing has been in The New York Times, Politico, Salon, the Guardian's Comment is Free, American Prospect Online, and InTheseTimes.com, and she has appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows, including MSNBC, BBC, Fox Business Network, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera, among others.


 * Micah L. Sifry - Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics, and TechPresident.com , an award-winning group blog on how American politicians are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition to curating the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. In that capacity, he has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006. He is the co-editor of Rebooting America, an anthology of writing on how the Internet and new technology can be used to reinvent American democracy (available online for free download at rebooting.personaldemocracy.com), co-author of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day (John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2004), author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of The Iraq War Reader (Touchstone, 2003) and The Gulf War Reader (Times Books, 1991). His personal blog is at micah.sifry.com.
 * Karen Tumulty - Karen Tumulty was named a national political correspondent for TIME in 2001. She joined the magazine as a congressional correspondent in 1994. Tumulty has written or co-written more than 30 cover stories for TIME. She contributes regularly to TIME.com’s political blog, “Swampland,” and has also held positions with TIME as congressional correspondent and White House correspondent. Before joining TIME, Tumulty spent 14 years at the Los Angeles Times, where she covered a wide variety of beats. During her time there, she reported on Congress, business, energy and economics out of Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. In 1982, Tumulty was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, and, in 1993, she won the National Press Foundation Edwin Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence. Tumulty is a native of San Antonio, Texas, where she began her career at the now-defunct San Antonio Light. Tumulty holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas-Austin and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is married to Paul Richter, who covers the State Department for the Los Angeles Times. They have two sons, Nicholas and Jack.
 * Moderator: Jennifer Nedeau - Jennifer Nedeau is a recovering journalist who has been published by the NewYorkTimes.com, Washingtonpost.com, Stateline.org, as well as several other online outlets. Currently, she works as a marketing consultant for New Media Strategies where she employs strategic efforts in blogs, social networks, Twitter and other social media sites to analyze, promote and protect her clients in the online space. In August 2008, Nedeau was selected to be the Editor of the Women’s Rights blog for Change.org (womensrights.change.org) where she helped to build the existing site and now facilitates daily discussion about the feminist movement as it relates to politics, technology and social norms. Additionally, Nedeau volunteers for New Leaders Council, a non-profit that offers exclusive training for young leaders, where she serves as the National Technology Chair and participates on the Washington, DC Advisory Board. Nedeau attended The George Washington University where she received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. She grew up in San Francisco, and currently lives in Washington, DC.

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