Media for the 99% – The 5th Annual LA Media Reform Summit: March 3rd, 2012
Occidental College, 200 Johnson Hall (not Johnson Student Center) (Directions to the Summit)
8:30am: Registration opens
9:30am: Welcome & Keynote Address
- Bob Scheer, Truth Dig
10:15 am: Panel Discussion
The Future of News is Now
- Jesse Thorn, host & creator, Bullseye public radio show and podcast and founder of MaximumFun
- Maria Armoudian, an author, a fellow at the Univ. of Southern California’s Center for International Studies, the host and producer of the Pacifica Radio programs The Scholars’ Circle and The Insighters
- Sharon McNary, Public Insights Specialist, KPCC Southern California Public Radio
- Val Zavala, Vice President of News and Public Affairs at KCET,
11:45 – 12:30pm Lunch
12:45 pm: Workshop Session 1
- “Citizen Journalism on the Net, From the Ground Up” with Sharon Kyle & Dick Price of the LA Progressive
- “Food Trucks: From Roach Coach to Pop-Culture Boom!” with Patricia Nazario, Erin Glenn, Michele Grant & Jan Tucker of Concepts Completos
- “How to be an Advocate in the Big Media World” with Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance and Inez Gonzalez of the National Hispanic Media Coalition
- “Creative Commons and Other Ways the Internet Law Empowers Media Reformers” with Shaun Spalding of New Media Rights
- “”Video the Vote 2012: Keeping Watch on Democracy” with John Wellington Ennis of Video the Vote
2:00pm: Workshop Session 2
- “The Process, Practice, Publication, Posting and Broadcasting of a People’s Critique of Popular Culture” with Ed Rampell of the Hollywood Progressive & James Agee Cinema Circle
- “How Insight Out News Covered Occupy LA” with Margot Paez of Insight Out News
- “Corporate Personhood and Media Consolidation” with David Cobb of Move to Amend
- “Mobile Voices, using our cell phones to create our own media by sharing our realities” with Ricardo Rodriguez, Manuel Mancia, Maria de Lourdes González, Diana Mendez, Marcos Rodriguez, Crispin Jimenez, Ranferi Ahiezer Velasquez, Luis Gonzalez, Pedro Joel Espinosa of LA-MAG-Net & IDEPSCA
- “Make it Pop: Short-form Video Storytelling” with John Wellington Ennis of Public Interest Pictures
3:15pm: Closing Speaker
Craig Aaron, Director & CEO, Free Press
4:00pm Reception
(Schedule subject to change)
L.A. Media Reform 
Jane Anne Jeffries 11:30 am on February 5, 2012 Permalink |
I’m very interested in this conference. However, I have a puppy who is only two months old, and it’s not easy to leave for an extended time. Perhaps it will be easier in another month.