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FYI, folks... am sure it will be archived, if you can't listen live. Dear Colleagues, I'm hoping you can help spread the word on this public discussion planned for tonight, Oct. 1, at USC Annenberg School for Communication sponsored by the Online News Association and USC's Knight Digital Media Center. We will be web casting live beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. You can join us at KnightDigitalMediaCenter.org for a provocative and interactive discussion about how the top news sites and others are opening their websites more than ever to their audience. Thanks so much, Vikki TITLE: "It's a Conversation, Stupid: Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, UGC meet Journalism" hosted by USC Annenberg School of Journalism and the Knight Digital Media Center in partnership with the Online News Association TIME: 5 to 6:30 p.m. PST Monday, Oct. 1, 2007 WHERE: KnightDigitalMediaCenter.org What happens when the audience becomes content producer on the nation's top news websites? Do you "moderate" or let 'er rip? How do journalism values and standards survive a User Generated Content world? Hear how USAToday.com and USA Today executive editor Kinsey Wilson, Yahoo! News editor in chief Neil Budde and CNN.com vice president and senior producer Mitch Gelman are opening their websites to their audiences as never before. Get a chance to weigh in from your cell phone and laptop as Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson paints the future of collaborative journalism. Moderators will be Michelle Nicolosi, assistant managing editor for interactive at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Amy Gahran, media "conversational" consultant and editor of Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits. -- Vikki Porter Director Knight Digital Media Center USC Annenberg School for Communication One California Plaza 300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 3950 Los Angeles, CA 90071 Tele: 213-437-4417 Fax: 213-437-4424 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.KnightDigitalMediaCenter.org <http://www.knightnewmediacenter.org/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
