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Northwest Newspaper Editors, Academics Selected for NPC Forum Oct. 23 in Spokane, Wash.
A forum in the NPC nationwide series on the future of the news media and how to protect its core values has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at Eastern Washington University’s Riverpoint Campus, Academic Center, Room 20 in Spokane, Wash. Panelists include: Gary Graham, editor of the Spokane Spokesman-Review Ted S. McGregor, Jr., editor and publisher, The Pacific Northwest Inlander Jamie Tobias Neely, assistant professor of journalism at Eastern Washington University and op-ed columnist for the Spokesman-Review John Caputo, the Northwest Alliance for Responsible Media Joining the World…
Type: News
Awareness, Education Can Keep 'Digital Natives' Safe on the 'Net
Because kids are "digital natives" to the Internet, that makes them more open to revealing personal information while online, attorney Christopher Wolf told an Oct. 16 Newsmaker audience. Wolf was one of three panelists talking about online safety. When kids put personal information online, it creates a digital dossier, he said, adding that teens who expose personal information online are most at risk. Wolf noted that a culture of intolerance has been created because kids are exposed to information from racist groups, and parents have abdicated their responsibility to monitor the sites their…
Type: News
'61 NPC President John Cosgrove Honored with New Award
John Cosgrove, Club president in 1961 and longtime activist in the Club's affairs, was honored Thursday night as the recipient of the first President’s Award of Distinction. Named for Cosgrove, the honor will be bestowed at the discretion of the Club president and will recognize outstanding continued service by former presidents of the Club. President Sylvia Smith said she chose Cosgrove as the first recipient because of his 62 years of service to the Club and his love of the organization. Smith announced the award at the Fall Hoot, the gathering of silver and golden owls of the NPC. She told…
Type: News
From The Diet Food We Eat To Why Men Cheat, An Evolutionary Biologist Argues Misconceptions Abound
From popular diets that encourage us to eat like our ancestors to the idea that a man who cheats can blame his behavior on his DNA, misconceptions about evolution abound, argues evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk on the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club podcast. In reality, she says, evolution is not synonymous with progress; it has no goal and no endpoint. Efforts to emulate our ancestors, then, are often misguided, says Zuk, a professor of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota who was in Washington for the American Psychological Association’s…
Type: Media
60 Minutes' Andy Rooney Honored by Owls
Andy Rooney, the curmudgeon essayist on CBS's "60 Minutes," received the 2008 "Order of the Owl" at the Fall Hoot Thursday. Selected by the Council of the Wisest Owls, the honor is given to someone who "gives a hoot about journalism."
Type: News
Newsmaker Speakers Raise Concerns about Fake Voter Registration
Fraudulent voter registration threatens to create problems in this year’s presidential campaign that will dwarf the “hanging chad” controversy in 2000 over the Florida vote, according to the leaders ofan organization created by Republican nominee John McCain to prepare for the voting. “The issue could be whether the election is fair at all,” former Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., said at an Oct. 14 Newsmaker. “This is a potential nightmare.” Danforth and former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., head McCain’s Honest and Open Election Committee. They highlighted their concerns by citing several examples…
Type: News
New Media Changes Election Coverage, NPC Panel in NYC Says
NEW YORK – The future has arrived in new media covering this presidential campaign and in how the politicians are reaching the voters, leading journalists told an NPC forum here Thursday. Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, described how she was able to watch Wednesday night’s debate live on the Times’ Web site while reading instant real-time commentary blogged by Times reporter Katharine Seelye. “She is able to write, not just on deadline, but in the instant moment, absorb, analyze and write about the debate in a way that holds up,” Abramson said of Seelye. “All of the…
Type: News
Finnish Official Says Firm Date, Resolve Help Digital Switchover
Setting a firm date and holding consumers to the deadline will help make the switch over to digital television next year in the United States a smooth operation, according to a Finnish official who guided his country through a similar process. Mikael Jungner, director general of the Finnish Broadcasting Company, was the point person for Finland’s transformation, which occurred on March 1. On that date each of the country’s 2.5 million households had to be geared up for digital TV, a change that would provide more channels and higher quality reception. Most of the transformation did not happen…
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Awareness, Education Can Keep 'Digital Natives' Safe on Net
Because kids are "digital natives" to the Internet, that makes them more open to revealing personal information while online, attorney Christopher Wolf told an Oct. 16 Newsmaker audience. Wolf was one of three panelists talking about online safety. When kids put personal information online, it creates a digital dossier, he said, adding that teens who expose personal information online are most at risk. Wolf noted that a culture of intolerance has been created because kids are exposed to information from racist groups, and parents have abdicated their responsibility to monitor the sites their…
Type: News
Filibuster-proof Senate Possible, Agree Schumer, Ensign
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and his Republican counterpart, John Ensign, R-Nev., agreed at a rare NPC breakfast "luncheon" Oct. 21 that Democrats likely will add to their Senate majority in the Nov. 4 election. But will Democrats win the required 60 seats that would enable them to override a GOP filibuster? Neither campaign chief would predict. Using the same words, both said, “It is possible.” But Ensign indicated that there’s a good chance that his party could win as many as 45 or 46 seats, despite what he called “a tough…
Type: News