Monday, August 01, 2011

Media workshop is Sept. 15 at Kent State

The seventh annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, September. 15 in Franklin Hall, home of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University.

Top sports journalists and ethics professionals will discuss all of the “Foul Play” happening in athletics at the collegiate and professional level.

Speakers will include:
· Rob King, senior vice president, editorial, ESPN Print and Digital Media
· Terry Pluto, Cleveland Plain Dealer sports columnist
· Brian Windhorst, Miami Heat/NBA reporter, ESPN, formerly of the Plain Dealer and the Akron Beacon Journal
· Ben Marison, editor, and Mike Wagner, investigative reporter, The Columbus Dispatch
· Steve Fox, editor of ESPN.com online discussions for the NFL and college football blog networks and developer of University of Massachusetts’ sports journalism concentration
· Melissa Ludtke, editor of Nieman Reports at Harvard University
· David Craig, professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma
· Marla Ridenour, Ohio State University reporter and columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal
· Julie Engebrecht, former sports editor for the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Additional guests and panelists will be announced soon.

The event will stream live on the Web and on mobile devices. All participants can contribute to the workshop discussions and ask questions of the speakers via Twitter using the hashtag #ksuethics11.

The Poynter Institute’s ethics faculty, Ellyn Angelotti, Kelly McBride and Stephen Buckley will facilitate. In addition, McBride again will release results of Poynter’s “Sense-Making” studies during the Media Ethics Workshop. The “Sense-Making” research is funded by the Ford Foundation.

The Workshop is a daylong training program for professionals, educators and students.

The ethics conference uses state-of-the-art technology and features live streaming on several websites, cyber connections for distance speakers, live blogging via Twitter and a permanent archive.

Registration fees include: Lunch, snack and all workshop materials.

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