April 14, 1997

Conference on journalism features UCSC alumni

The Future of Journalism, a conference for students and the general public, will take place on Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19, at Kresge College. The conference features UCSC alumni who are now in the field of journalism and is sponsored by the Alumni Association, the Writing Program, the Media Council, and Kresge College. For more information, call (408) 459-4439 or send e-mail to rozl@cats.ucsc.edu

The program is as follows:

10:30-11:45 a.m.
Kresge 159
"Daily News: Is There Life in Daily Journalism?"
panelists TBA

1-3 p.m.
Kresge 159
Panel 1: "Not Just the Facts: Journalists who have moved into (and back to) fiction and film"
Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times, reporter (Oakes '85)
Geoffrey Dunn, screenwriter, filmmaker, essayist (Stevenson '97)
Laurie King, novelist (Kresge '77)
Moderator: Paul Skenazy, UCSC professor of literature

Kresge Student Lounge
Panel 2: "Mapping the Alternatives: Working for weeklies, trade journals, the labor, and alternative press"
Steve Palopoli, Good Times, features editor (Merrill '95)
Patrick Burnson, Pacific Shipper, managing editor (Stevenson '83)
Penelope Whitney, Media Alliance, board president (College Eight '89)

3:30-5 p.m.
Kresge 159
Panel 1: "Is There Life After Daily News? Journalists who have moved out of daily journalism to other fields"
Doug Foster, UC Berkeley School of Journalism, director of school affairs (Kresge '75)
Maya Holmes, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, Local 483, research analyst (Kresge '94)
Moderator: Alan Acosta, Stanford News Service director

Kresge Student Lounge
Panel 2: "The Politics of Time: TV"
Kyung Sun Yu, "We Do the Work," associate producer (Merrill '92)
Debra Chaplan, "We Do the Work," executive director (Stevenson '79)
Anne Geller, KNTV Channel 11, news producer (Crown '90)
Moderator: Mike Rotkin, UCSC community studies lecturer

7 p.m.
Kresge College: Reception

8 p.m.
Kresge 321
"Covering the Big Story"
Alan Acosta, Stanford News Service, director (Merrill '74)
Ron Kitagawa, Long Beach Press-Telegram, assistant news editor (College Eight '90)
Dave Saldana, KCOP Channel 13, field producer (Cowell '91)
Victor Peskin, TriValley Herald, former staff writer (Merrill '91)
Kyung Sun Yu, "We Do the Work," associate producer (Merrill '92)
Moderator: Conn Hallinan, UCSC writing lecturer

10-11:30 a.m. Kresge 159: "The Perils and Promise of On-Line Publishing: How reporting has to change to meet Web deadlines, accuracy and accountability, the Web versus print media, on-line audiences, and the future of on-line journalism"
Patrick Twohy, Hot Coco (online edition of the Contra Costa Times), editor (Merrill '82)
Eric Lipton, KTLA TV (Los Angeles), Internet producer (Cowell '94)
Griffin Cherry, Tweak (on-line magazine), editor (Porter '94)
Marcia Ludwig, recently of Communication Week (Oakes '88)
David Bank, Wall Street Journal, reporter (Oakes '82)

4:30-6 p.m.
Kresge Provost House
Reception

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