We seek answers to this question: How do rural communities sustain journalism that supports democracy?
DRAFT SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 2
Arrivals; dinner on your own
Friday, June 3
Arrivals continue
Noon: Opening lunch, West Family Dwelling Cellar (walk
to the left after leaving the Welcome Center)
1:15 Summit
begins at Meeting House (walk to the right after leaving the Welcome
Center)
Opening remarks: Why we’re doing this and what we hope to
accomplish
Al Cross, director and professor, Institute for Rural
Journalism and Community Issues
Dr. Jennifer Greer, dean and professor, College of
Communication and Information, University of Kentucky
1:30 The state of
America’s community newspapers and their journalism
Penelope Muse Abernathy, visiting professor, Medill School
of Journalism, Northwestern University
(All sessions will include a period for questions,
answers and discussion among participants)
2:15 Reports from
leaders of the community newspaper industry
National Newspaper Association President Brett Wesner and
former president Robert Williams
Tom Silvestri of The Relevance Project, an effort by the
Newspaper Association Managers group
3:00 Putting local philanthropy in your business
model
Nathan Payne, recently editor of the Traverse City
Record-Eagle, on how community foundations can help
Jody Lawrence-Turner, executive director, Fund for Oregon
Rural Journalism
Dennis Brack, publisher, the Rappahannock News, Washington,
Va.
4:00 Converting your newspaper(s) to nonprofit
status
Liz and Steve Parker, former owners and still operators, New
Jersey Hills Media Group, on their recent conversion
4:30 Roundtable
discussion to relieve any pains of unexpressed thoughts
5:00 End of formal
programming for the day
6:00 Reception in
the West Family Dwelling Cellar
6:45 Dinner in the West Family Dwelling Cellar
Saturday, June 4 in the Meeting House
8:45 Light
continental breakfast
9:00 Good
journalism is good business, but how do we make people want local news?
Editor-Publisher Marshall Helmberger, the Timberjay, Tower,
Minn.
9:30 How two
community newspapers are adapting to change
Publishers Bill Horner of the Chatham (N.C.) News+Record and
Terry Williams of the Keene (N.H.) Sentinel
Discussion moderated by Buck Ryan, associate professor,
University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media
10:15 Innovation
at other community newspapers
Tony Baranowski, Iowa Falls Times-Citizen, with Jim Iovino,
director, NewStart, West Virginia University
11:00 National
funders discuss help for rural journalism
Kim Kleman, Report for America
Jonathan Kealing, Institute for Nonprofit News
Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, Columbia University, co-founder,
National Trust for Local News
Noon Box lunch
in the Meeting House
Speaker via Zoom: Dink NeSmith of Community Newspapers Inc. and
The Oglethorpe Echo, staffed by journalism students of the University of
Georgia’s Grady College
1:00 New business
models for community newspapers, and a plan to test one
Dr. Teri Finneman, University of Kansas
2:00 What other
research is needed to help community journalism?
Bill Reader, Ohio University, and Clay Carey of Samford University,
author of The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront
Poverty in Appalachia
3:00 Roundtable
discussion, open-ended; wrap-up by Al Cross and Jennifer Greer
6:00 Informal
dinner at Trustees’ Table
Sunday, June 5: Departures
CONTACTS: Al Cross, Summit director 502-682-2848 al.cross@uky.edu
Tracie Hutchison, dean’s staff officer 801-696-4606 tracie.hutchison@uky.edu
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