The National Press Club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists, and the University of North Carolina's School of Journalism and Mass Communication are teaming up to look at the future of the news media and how to protect its core values.
The Oct. 7 event will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Carroll Hall Auditorium. It is open to the public and admission is free.
The National Press Club Forum on "The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism" will feature a multimedia panel of experts who are looking at where the news business is heading:
Orage Quarles, publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer
Penny Muse Abernathy, UNC's Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics who is a veteran reporter, editor and media executive with organizations including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
Deborah Potter, executive director of NewsLab, a non-profit journalism resource in Washington, D.C. and a columnist for the American Journalism Review
Jim Hefner, former vice president and general manager at CBS affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh who joined the UNC faculty this year.
The panel will be moderated by UNC alum Donna Leinwand, a USA Today correspondent and the Club's vice president.
"In these tumultuous times for journalism, the Club is pleased to have such a forward-looking group of journalists join us at the University of North Carolina," said NPC President Sylvia Smith.
"Good journalism is vital to achieving the ideals of democracy," said Jean Folkerts, dean of UNC's journalism school. "We have a responsibility to train the next generation journalists and to help lead the profession to economic viability in the new media environment."
This forum is part of a nationwide conversation the National Press Club is holding during its 100th anniversary to look at where the news business is going and what news consumers should be demanding. Schedules and video highlights of forums in other states can be found on the Club's Web site: http://www.press.org/. The next one will be Oct. 8 at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
The event begins with a preview of the Club's centennial documentary, "The National Press Club: A Century of Headlines," which follows the history of American journalism through the lens of one of its leading institutions. Everyone who attends this forum will get a copy of the documentary.
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