[Imc-newsroom] Improving Coverage of African-American Communities/June 2

[Community Media Workshop]

Journalists, community leaders, parents, teachers, teenagers and interested
citizens are invited to meet prominent journalists and share their opinions
and insight about how media covers African-American communities and issues.

Thursday, June 2, 2005, 3:30 - 5 p.m.
Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago

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The Great Divide: Improving Coverage of the African-American Communities
and Issues
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Join professor and award-winning journalist Laura S. Washington as she
leads a roundtable discussion about media's relationship with the black
community. 

We'll look at such questions as:
• Why does the media always focus on the "bad news" in black communities?
• Whose news is it anyway? Is there a black perspective on the news? Is it
relevant to news managers?
• What's the media doing right? What important stories is it missing?
• How do we facilitate better coverage and bridge "the great divide"?

Coming to contribute, listen and learn will be:

Cliff Kelley, Host, WVON
Jerry Thomas, publicist, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Salim Muwakkil, syndicated columnist and editor and In These Time reporter
Sylvia Ewing, journalist and producer for WBEZ/Chicago 
Public Radio
Alysia Tate, editor and publisher, Chicago Reporter
Don Wycliff, public editor, Chicago Tribune
Roland Martin, executive editor, Chicago Defender
...and more.

Want to weigh in early on this discussion? Tell us what you think at
www.newstips.org/perspectives/aamerican.

This discussion is part of the June 1 & 2 Making Media Connections
conference. To see the full conference schedule and to register, go to
www.newstips.org!
http://r.vresp.com/?CommunityMediaWorksh/222e0b16fd/332698/67b929cf77/fd8ed20

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This roundtable discussion is FREE, but please RSVP to
aamericanroundtable at newstips.org.

This discussion is organized with cooperation of the Independent Press
Association-Chicago, Black Public Relations Society, Chicago Headline
Club, Association for Women Journalists and other partners.

This roundtable discussion runs concurrently with one addressing coverage
of Latino communities and issues. To learn more about that discussion, see
www.newstips.org/interior.php?section=Calendar+Sub&main_id=469.


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