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Knight Fellowships 2007 SymposiumHow Will We Pay for the Journalism We Need?
4:30 p.m., Monday May 21
Symposium to explore the challenge of paying for good journalism It's a question bedeviling everyone who cares about a well-informed citizenry: "How will we pay for the journalism we need?" And this month at Stanford, three people who have wrestled with this challenge in different ways will meet to explore some answers. The three are David Talbot, founder of the online magazine, Salon.com, Lauren Rich Fine, a respected online and publishing financial analyst, and Lem Lloyd, vice president of the Yahoo! Newspaper Consortium, who will participate in the John S. Knight Symposium. Vindu Goel, San Jose Mercury News editorial writer and blogger, will moderate the discussion. The symposium will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 21, in Kresge Auditorium on the Stanford campus. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists. The question the symposium will explore is a significant one. "This wired world needs good journalism - to report the news accurately and independently, to serve as a counterbalance to power, and to be a window and a mirror on society," Knight Fellowships Director James Bettinger explained. "But the journalism institutions we might have relied on - newspapers, broadcast news programs and magazines - are threatened by the erosion and fragmentation of their audiences, by the economic appetites of their stockholders and by the skepticism of their most significant advertisers. That's the landscape in 2007, and the future is anything but clear."
David Talbot founded Salon.com in 1995, and was its editor-in-chief and chief executive officer for 10 years before becoming chairman in 2005. Previously he was the arts and features editor of the San Francisco Examiner, and was senior editor of Mother Jones magazine in the early 1980s. He is the author of "Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years," published this month. Lauren Rich Fine, Chartered Financial Analyst, was until last month a managing director at Merrill Lynch in the Equity Research Department. She joined the department in 1988 and focusing on the publishing, information, advertising and online industries. She was a ranked member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team since 1994. Lem Lloyd is vice president of the Newspaper Consortium at Yahoo!. He was formerly vice president, sales and business development at Oodle; corporate director of classifieds & vice president of classified and national sales for online at Knight Ridder and KR Digital; and senior director of business development at Knight Ridder Digital.
Vindu Goel
Vindu Goel is an editorial writer and blogger for the San Jose Mercury News. He joined the paper in 1999 as an assistant business editor after eight years at the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and from 2003 to 2005, he was business editor at the paper. Prior to joining the editorial board in October 2006, he studied the impact of the Internet on newspapers as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. The Knight Fellowships program brings outstanding mid-career journalists, 12 from the U.S. and six to eight from other countries, to study at Stanford for an academic year. It initiated an annual lecture and symposium series in 1988. James Bettinger is director of the Knight Fellowships, and Dawn Garcia is deputy director. |
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