Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:45:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Densmore 
To: New Pamphleteers 
Subject: VIDEO STREAM TONIGHT: 7:30 p.m. Eastern, 6:30 p.m. Central 

Restoring relevancy to the news: What's a citizen to do?

Friday, June 6, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
UBS Forum, Minnesota Public Radio Headquarters
Streamed live at: 

http://www.publicradio.org/forum/presspartnership/

FOLLOWING THE DISCUSSION ON THE WIKI:


http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-mpr


>From YouTube's citizen journalism unit to CNN's i-Report to Minnesota
Public Radio's Public Insight Journalism, media outlets are forging new
models of journalism.

How, if at all, do these initiatives restore relevancy to the news and
strengthen community connections? How eager is the public to
participate? And what does a genuine partnership between the public and
the press look like?

Minnesota Public Radio News in conjunction with Journalism that Matters
aims to find out. MPR will invite people to the UBS Forum to examine a
range of media initiatives designed to build relevance and relationships
with the public -- from open comments on stories to hyper-local
journalism by citizens to pro-am partnerships. Participants will then
explain their ideas and answer questions from an expert panel of people
engaged in changing the way news is reported and delivered.

About the Event:

The event is free and is sandwiched between the Passion for Place
conference and the National Conference for Media Reform. We will
assemble a group of people who have varied connections with the press
through our Public Insight Network. The Forum is by invitation only but
will be available live on the web and recorded for potential broadcast.

Linda Fantin
Associate Director, Public Insight Journalism
Minnesota Public Radio
480 Cedar St., St. Paul, MN 55101
lfantin@mpr.org | 651-290-1121