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Without Fear or Favor: Objectivity Revisited
Monday, February 26 | 7:00-9:00 PM
The UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio
480 Cedar Street | St. Paul, MN 55101
The Minnesota Professional Chapter of SPJ is planning to plunge into one of journalism’s most provocative topics — objectivity — at Minnesota Public Radio’s UBS Forum in downtown St. Paul.
The event will feature as lead panelist Stephen Ward, acting director and associate professor of journalism at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Ward is author of The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond. The forum is moderated by MPR Midmorning host Kerri Miller.
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Objectivity Revisited
Monday, February 26 | 7:00-9:00 PM
The UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio
480 Cedar Street | St. Paul, MN 55101
Stephen Ward’s book, The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond, won the 2005-06 Harold Innis Prize from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the best English-language scholarly book in the social sciences. He has 15 years of experience as a foreign correspondent, editor and newsroom manager.
Other panelists:
Matt Thompson, deputy on-line editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and co-producer of EPIC 2015. This eight-minute Internet video imagines a day, just eight years out, when the New York Times has become a newsletter for the elderly and the elite and the media scene is dominated by technology-enabled content tailored to the interests and biases of individual consumers and then dispatched to them via the Internet. SPJ will show the video as part of the program.
Thom Fladung, editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Kristin Henning, associate publisher of Rake magazine.
Moderator: Kerri Miller, host of MPR’s Midmorning show.
Co-sponsors of this event include the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law and the Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota, the Associated Press, the Minnesota News Council, the Minnesota Newspaper Association, the Northwest Broadcast News Association and the journalism school at the University of St. Thomas.
The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Space is limited, so we urge you to make reservations as soon as possible.
Go to Minnesota Public Radio’s UBS Forum page for directions and parking information.