When the Ink Runs Dry: A Forum on the Future of the News Business

The Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism will present “When the Ink Runs Dry: A Forum on the Future of the News Business,” Nov. 4-6. The following events will take place:

• “A Glimpse of the Future” – The presentation of three videos produced by the Washington, D.C.-based Newseum, with showings scheduled in Kimpel 111 beginning at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m., throughout Nov. 4. The videos are part of a 10-part television series, “The Future of News,” which is set to air in early 2010 and features “lively, cutting-edge conversations with well-known journalists and new media pioneers about the evolution of news reporting in an Internet age,” according to the Newseum Web site.

• “The Fog of New Media” – A panel of speakers, including Matthew Waite, the senior news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times and designer of PolitiFact, the first stand-alone Web site to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; Michelle Malashock, the Web content editor at The Morning News; Gordon Witkin, the managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity; and Conan Gallaty, the online director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, in the Donald W. Reynolds Center Auditorium at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 5. Refreshments will be available following the panel, compliments of the Lemke Journalism Alumni Society.

• “Advice for the Future” – The taping of a student media program, which will include a student-led interview followed by a Q & A session, in Kimpel 111 at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 6. The events are open to the public and faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend. Funded in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contact: Bret Schulte, assistant professor
Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-6659, bjschult@uark.edu