Participants are responsible for covering transportation costs.

Registration Fee: $50 ($40 for RTNDA members)

TO REGISTER: Fax back registration form to 202-347-6440.

For more information, contact:

Pew Center for Civic Journalism
Phone: 202-331-3200
Fax: 202-347-6440
E-mail: news@pccj.org

Avni Patel, RTNDF
Phone: 202-467-5215
Fax: 202-223-4007
E-mail: avnip@rtndf.org

Tentative Agenda

Friday, June 9, 2000

6:00 p.m. Registration and Reception

7:00 p.m. Dinner, Welcome, and Introductions

Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, Pew Center
Eric Swanson, Executive Director, RTNDF
KEYNOTER: Fred Mann, Regional Vice President, KnightRidder.com
"We're on the web! Now What Happens?"

Saturday, June 10, 2000

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Civic Journalism Overview: Innovations around the country.

Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, Pew Center

9:00 - 10:15 a.m. How It's Playing Out in Newsrooms

Taking the public's pulse.
Dan Suwyn, Managing Editor, Savannah Morning News
Building stories from a civic frame.
Karen Weintraub, Senior Reporter, Virginian-Pilot
Putting the public back into TV news.
Michael Plews, Chief Photographer, WOWT, Omaha

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 - Noon Covering the Campaigns

Building a megaphone for citizen voices.
Chris Satullo Editorial Page Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
Paul Gluck News Director, WHYY-TV, Philadelphia
Connecting viewers to campaign coverage.
Brad Tachco Producer, WOKR-TV, Rochester, NY

Noon - 12:30 p.m. Covering the New Technologies.

The "Philacon Valley"
Ellen Foley Managing Editor, Philadelphia Daily News

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 p.m. The New Demographics: Issues of the Young and Old

Caregivers and the issues of aging
Dan Suwyn, Managing Editor, Savannah Morning News
Education and the issues of children
Ann Steffens, Education Reporter, KMOV-TV, St. Louis
Dennis Willard, State House Bureau Chief, Akron Beacon Journal

2:45 - 3:15 p.m. Using the Web to Educate and Engage

Tax reform and energy deregulation.
Jon Greenberg, Senior Editor, New Hampshire Public Radio

3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 - 4:15 p.m. Crime Coverage: Searching for the Right Perspective

Creating new reflexes in the coverage of public safety issues.
Susan Gage, Crime Team Leader, The Oregonian
Jerry White, Planning Editor, KVUE-TV, Austin

4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Navigating Transportation and Sprawl

A roadmap for covering the traffic beat.
Dianne Whitacre, Transportation Reporter, The Charlotte Observer
Covering sprawl and development
Dan Dennison, News Director, KOAA-TV, Colorado Springs, Co.

Sunday, June 11, 2000

8:30 - 9:15 a.m. Tapping Into Your Community: A Civic Mapping Primer

Video Examples of Interviewing, Third Places and Finding Alternative Sources.
Jan Schaffer & Walter Dean, The Pew Center

9:15 - 10:45 a.m. Using Civic Mapping to Build Stories and Community trust

Deb Halpern, Ass't. News Director, WFLA-TV, Tampa
John X. Miller, Public Editor, Detroit Free Press
Jack Keith, Central Team Leader, The News Tribune, Tacoma

10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 - 12:00 p.m. Degrees of Innovation: Civic Journalism Today

A reporter's roundtable.
Moderators: Barbara Cochran, RTNDA and Jan Schaffer, Pew Center