Whom Do You Trust to Tell You the News? Fair, Accurate, Balanced and Thorough Reporting in the 21st Century
Speaker:
Panel Discussion
08 Apr 2010
4:00 PM
Gallery, Memorial Union
Rafat Ali, publisher and editor of the New York-based Paid Content, will lead a panel on what news media consumers trust most. Ali, a native of India, owns one of the most successful web-only news sites in the world. He sold the site in 2008 to The Guardian in Great Britain but continues to run the operation. He will be joined by Marcus McIntosh, morning and noon anchor at KCCI-TV, Des Moines; and Alexandra Hayne, editor of the Ames Tribune. Barbara Mack, professor of media law in the Greenlee School of Journalism, will moderate. Part of the First Amendment Days Celebration.
For more information: [url=http://fad.jlmc.iastate.edu/]http://fad.jlmc.iastate.edu/[/url]
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[b]The First Amendment Blog Poetry Slam[/b]
7:00 p.m., Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010
[b]Freedom March[/b]
9:00 a.m., Ames City Hall, 515 Clark Ave
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11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Free Speech Zone, in front of Parks Library
Food, music, drama, chalk the campus, soap box debates and exhibits
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