This Sweeney Center conference focuses on the challenges facing journalism in New Jersey and nationwide.  Major topics include the growth of nonprofit ownership models, the economics of the digital transformation, the decline in local news reporting, and the impact of increasing partisanship on independent journalism. 

 

 Speakers include:

• David Cruz, NJTV News Senior Correspondent;
• Ken Herts, Chief Operating Officer of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, nonprofit owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer;
• Enrique Lavin, Editor, Online Newspapers, NJ Advance Media / The Star-Ledger / com;
• Amanda Richardson, Executive Director of the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media, nonprofit publisher of the New Jersey Hills Media Group and the West Essex Tribune;
• P. Kenneth /Burns, New Jersey Reporter for WHYY, NPR, and President of the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists;
• Michael M. Shapiro, Founder and CEO, TapInto.net;
• Stefanie Murray, Executive Director of the Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University;
• Terrence McDonald, Editor of New Jersey Monitor, part of the 50-state nonprofit States Newsroom;
• Noelle Deihl-Harteveld, Senior Director of Development, NJPBS and NJ Spotlight;
• Chris Daggett, President of the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium; and
• Marc Pfeiffer, author of "The Future of New Jersey Journalism: Evolution, Not Extinction."

The conference is free. Registration and breakfast open at 8:00 a.m. Lunch is included.

 

To register, click here