Can an Educated Society Be Sustained Solely by Digitalization?

A Conference on the Future of Newspapers and Society , March 27, 2010 8:30 a.m.

Keynote Addresses

• Digital Media & News: Reinventing the Newspaper Future, Dr. Richard Gershon, WMU-School of Communication
• Saving Paper Papers, Cheryl Kaechele, President of the National Newspaper Association
• Can Democracy Survive in the Google Age?, Dr. Thomas Kostrzewa, WMU-Political Science Department
• The Future of Reason in the Digital Civilization, Dr. Andrew Targowski, WMU-Center
  for Sustainable Business Practices
• Credibility, Incredibility, and the Demise of Objectivity, Civility and Wisdom
  Luncheon Address, Cal Samra, Editor & Publisher of an award-winning humor newsletter (both paper & digital) and former newspaper and Associated Press reporter
  

Discussion Panels of Journalists, Academicians, and Business People

Best Papers Competition (Call for Papers)
Chair, Dr. Thomas Rienzo, WMU-Computer Information Systems

• FourCategories:  Editorial Model, Business Model, Environmental Model, and Societal Model
• Three Roles: Professional, Faculty and Students

General Admission: $20 (lunch included)

WMU Community: No admission charge, but lunch is not included (+$15)

SPONSORED BY

• Western Michigan University
• The National Newspaper Association
• Haworth College of Business: Center for Sustainable Business Practices
• College of Arts and Sciences
• Haenicke Institute for Global Education