Zocalo Public Square Presents: What Comes After Newspapers?
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7:30 pm
Fort Mason Center
Golden Gate Room at the Conference Center, Building A
Moderated by David Folkenflik, media correspondent, National Public Radio
From town tabloids to major metropolitan dailies, newspapers seem to be in their last throes. The availability of free and instant news online, the high profit margins demanded by media conglomerates, and the steep declines in advertising revenue have hit newspapers hard. They have been forced to lay off employees, trim their pages, close print operations or shut down completely. Will a new model or medium rise to do what newspapers have aimed to do for over a century — pursue accuracy and objectivity, doggedly investigate stories, act as a check on power, embody a community’s conversation with itself, and write a first draft of history? Or will the demise of newspapers mean a radical shift in what we know and how we know it? Zócalo hosts a panel — including former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll, Slate founder Michael Kinsley, and former San Francisco Chronicle executive vice president and editor Phil Bronstein — to discuss the decline of print media and the future of journalism.
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