The Future of the Ethnic News Business Conference
Date: Friday, March 24, 2006
Time: 8:00 am - 12:30 pm (see below for panel session details and times)
Location: UMass Boston Campus Center, Ballroom C, 3rd Floor. Please park in North Lot
(Directions to UMass
Boston)
Who: Publishers, news directors, editors, reporters, business, advertising,
sales, web marketers, PR firms, political leaders, community activists and any media persons
Sponsor: UMass Boston's Center on Media and Society
Host Committee: Jodi Tatiana Charles, Bill Forry, Hitesh M. Hathi, Ellen Hume,
Yawu Miller, Upendra Mishra, Jerry Villacres
RSVP: linda.mclaughlin@umb.edu
or call 617.287.5562
For Special Accommodations: please e-mail
tonya.lopes@umb.edu by March 14
Registration and Breakfast
8:00 am: Registration and Breakfast
Breakfast Address
8:30 am - 9:15 am: Ethnic Media: Their Value and Their Struggle
Speakers:
Welcome: Chancellor Michael Collins
Linda Dorcena Forry, Massachusetts State Representative, 12th Suffolk District and
Bill Forry, Managing Editor, Reporter Newspapers
Panel Session I
9:15 am - 10:30 am: Marketing Your Product: Ideas and Strategies for Ethnic Media
Panel:
Donna Gittens, President and CEO, Causemedia, Inc.; Javier J. Marin, Editor of El Planeta and Cofounder
Hispanic News Press; Debra B. Miller, Senior Vice President, Director of Corporate Affairs for New England,
Citizens Bank; Upendra Mishra, Managing Partner, The Mishra Group; Collette A.M. Phillips, President &
CEO, Collette Phillips Communications, Inc.; Tiffany Warren, Director, Multicultural Programs &
Community Outreach, Arnold Worldwide
Panel Session II
10:45 am - 12 Noon: Issues from the Newsroom: Practicing Good Journalism with Limited Resources
Panel: Chazy Dowaliby, Editor of Patriot Ledger; Charles J. Kravetz, Station Manager and VP of News at
New England Cable News; Ric Oliveira, Publisher of O Jornal & El Latino Expresso; Foon Rhee, City
Editor of the Boston Globe; and Adam Smith, English Editor of Sampan
Lunch Keynote Address
12 Noon
Keynote Address by Pat Purcell, Publisher of the Boston Herald and Herald Media
Nyhan Award Event Scheduled for November 3, 2005. Visit:
http://www.umb.edu/ia/events.html
for more details.
A conference, "Dangerous
Intersection: Where the Media and Public Policy Collide,"
was held on April 7, 2004. Press
Release.
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