[AEJMC Newspaper Division list] The Future of Editing: AEJMC Newspaper Division preconference

[Susan Keith]

Dear AEJMC Newspaper Division members,

As you're making plans for the AEJMC convention, don't forget the Newspaper
Division's preconference, The Future of Editing, from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday,
Aug. 4, at the Boston Sheraton. The workshop -- which will feature panel
discussions with top newspaper editors, copy editors, online editors and
innovative editing teachers -- should benefit professors who teach editing,
faculty who want to incorporate discussions of editing and new media into
journalism courses and administrators concerned about journalism curricula.

The workshop will begin with a panel titled The Future of Newspapers. It is
scheduled to feature Boston Globe editor Marty Baron and Worcester (Mass.)
Telegram & Gazette editor Leah Lamson, whose newspapers have faces reports
in the past year that their owner, the New York Times Co., was putting them
up for sale. Also on the panel are Felice Belman, editor of the Concord
(N.H.) Monitor, considered by some to be among the country's best small
dailies. The session will be moderated by Newspaper Division head Jack
Rosenberry of St. John Fisher College, a former editor at the Rochester
(N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle and other newspapers.

The second panel will feature a discussion on the Future of Copy Editing,
with Chris Wienandt, president of the American Copy Editors Society and
business copy desk chief at the Dallas Morning News; Jim Franklin, assistant
night editor/metro slot at the Boston Globe; and Mike Richard, a New York
Times Metro Desk staff editor who edits the Times' City Room blog. The
session will be moderated by Future of Editing organizer Susan Keith of
Rutgers University, a former copy editor at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
and other newspapers.

The third panel, the Future of Online Editing, will feature Damon Kiesow,
the online managing editor of the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph; Jeanne Leblanc,
former online editor of the Hartford Courant; and University of Oregon
professor John Russial, a former copy desk chief and veteran editing
researcher who has recently published research on editing for newspapers'
online editions. The panel will be moderated by Leslie-Jean Thornton, who
teaches online journalism at Arizona State University and is a former editor
at several daily and weekly newspapers in New York, Connecticut and
Virginia.

The final session, the Future of Editing Instruction, will feature a
discussion of innovative practices for teaching editing by editing
professors Andy Bechtel of the University of North Carolina, Rick Kenney of
the University of Central Florida, and Jill Van Wyke of Drake University.
The session will be moderated by Susan Keith.

To register for the workshop, which costs just $35 and features an afternoon
snack break, check the "Future of Editing" line on lower left side of the
AEJMC registration form available at
http://www.aejmc.org/_events/convention/registration/index.php Deadline for
early-bird, reduced-priced AEJMC registration is July 10.

If you have questions about the workshop, e-mail Susan Keith at
susank at rci.rutgers.edu. See you there!

Susan Keith, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Department of Journalism and Media Studies
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732) 932-7500, ext. 8235
susank at scils.rutgers.edu
www.scils.rutgers.edu/~susank
Office: CILS 106