NPC Freelancers Breakfast

NPC Freelancers are invited to meet for breakfast at 8:30am Tuesday, April 26 in the McClendon Room before attending the 2011 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium - The Future of Public Broadcasting: Innovating to Connect Communities from 9am to Noon in the Conference Rooms. Over breakfast we will discuss networking strategies and best practices for meeting editors and publishers. You are welcome to attend either one or both events. Please note that you must RSVP for the Symposium to [email protected].

The 2011 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium
The Future of Public Broadcasting: Innovating to Connect Communities

Public broadcasting is facing the most serious threat to federal funding in its 44-year history. Top industry leaders and journalists will gather to discuss this issue at the 2011 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium, sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism and the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library at the National Press Club.

For more information please see: http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2011/04-12-hurley-symposium.html

Tuesday, April 26
Program: 9 a.m. to Noon

National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20045

Speakers include:

Jim Lehrer
Executive Editor and Anchor, PBS NewsHour

Paula Kerger
President and CEO, PBS

Patrick Butler
President and CEO, Association of Public Television Stations

Bill Kling
CEO, American Public Media

Joyce Slocum
Interim President and CEO, NPR

Tom Rosenstiel
Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism

Moderator:
Barbara Cochran
Curtis B. Hurley Chair, Missouri School of Journalism

Other participants include: Dean Mills, dean of Missouri School of Journalism, and journalists and analysts from NPR; PBS NewsHour; WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C.; KBIA-FM, Columbia, Mo.; Minnesota Public Radio; WNET-TV, New York, the National Black Programming Consortium and the Center for Social Media’s Future of Public Media Project.

To Register:
Contact Jackie Lewandowski
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 202.662.7155