Coming Soon: Ethical Journalism Conference Hosted by CIME Advisory Board Member

When: April 30-May 1, 2009.
Where: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor and CIME Advisory Board member Stephen J.A. Ward invites you to join leading journalists, scholars, and media experts to explore the future of ethical journalism in the public interest.

Is ethical practice possible in a time of economic cutbacks and uncertainty? What ethical norms should guide journalism amid a media revolution? Sessions will discuss new economic models for good journalism, the future of investigative journalism, public editors and media accountability, professional and citizen journalists, and the ethics of new media.

Speakers will include: Clark Hoyt, public editor, New York Times; Jon Sawyer, executive director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; Owen Ullmann, deputy managing editor/news, USA Today; Lee Wilkins, Curators' Teaching Professor, Missouri School of Journalism.

This conference is hosted by the new Center for Journalism Ethics, at the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

Registration is free but required, and space is limited. For more information, please contact the Center for Journalism Ethics at ethics@journalism.wisc.edu and visit the Center's website at http://www.journalismethics.info.

The event will be live streamed on Friday, May 1, 2009 from 9am to 5pm CST (USA).