Bloggers, citizen journalists and traditional media’s dramatic and, some would say, desperate embrace of the web will be the focus of the April 26 Journalism Day program, “The Online News Revolution: Information Boom, Brave New World, or Both?”
The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Beach Auditorium at CSULB. Admission is free.
James Rainey, the Los Angeles Times media writer who has chronicled the paper’s travails, including some scandals, will speak about “The Changing News Business.”
Rainey will then join traditional and new media journalists for a panel entitled “Who is a Journalist?”
Other panelists include Jeff Light, managing editor in charge of new media for the Orange County Register, travel writer and blogger Gary Warner, Will Swaim, publisher of the The District Weekly, the new Long Beach alternative publication, and Andrew Boer of Associated Content, an online news provider. Representatives of corporations, non-profits and politicians will also head up a panel discussing the effects of media fragmentation from a public relations perspective. Panelists will include the high-profile Democratic consultant Kam Kuwata and Ricca Silverio, account director for Bock Communications.
Later on, Press-Telegram Editor Rich Archbold and reporter Tracy Manzer will join other journalists in examining media coverage of last year’s Long Beach Halloween beating trial. The panel will examine the impact of blogs and discuss coverage of the controversial case.
The panel include Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Mozingo, Times legal affairs editor Gale Holland, Long Beach Press-Telegram Executive Editor Rich Archbold, Press-Telegram reporter Tracy Manzer, and Anitra Dempsey, executive director of the Long Beach Citizen Police Complaint Commission.
The event includes a student awards presentation that begins at 12:15 p.m.
