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Watch the stream live from the FTC 2 day workshop titled ‘ How will journalism survive the internet age? ‘ from Washington DC. Questions will be taken from @ftcnews during the Q & A session.

Update 4/11/09 : We will be uploading the archived videos from the webcast shortly. The webcast was a great success – for a government hosted event, the discussions where surprisingly open and informative.

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The agenda:

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

9:00 am – Welcome  – Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

9:15 am  – Remarks  – Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, President and CEO, ProPublica & Former Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal

9:30 am  – Remarks – Rick Edmonds, Media Business Analyst, The Poynter Institute & Co-author, The State of the News Media 2009

9:45 am  – Remarks  – Rupert Murdoch – Chairman and CEO, News Corp.

10:05 am – Panel – The State of Journalism Today and Tomorrow

• Mark Contreras, Chairman of the Executive Committee, The Newspaper Association of America & Senior Vice President/Newspapers, E.W. Scripps Co.
• Martin Kaiser, President, American Society of News Editor & Editor and Senior Vice President Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Jonathan Knee, Director, Media Program, Columbia Business School & Senior Managing Director, Evercore Partners
• Nina Link, President and CEO & Magazine Publishers of America
• Bryan Monroe, Visiting Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University &  Former Vice President and Editorial Director, Ebony and Jet
• Robert Picard, Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Media Management and Transformation Centre, Jonkoping University, Sweden
• Tonda Rush, Of Counsel, King & Ballow, On Behalf of National Newspaper Association
• David Westphal, Executive in Residence, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California & Former Washington Editor, McClatchy Newspapers
• Fred Young, Retired Senior Vice President of News Hearst Television Inc.

11:35 am  – Remarks  – Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post

12:00 pm – 1:30pm  – Lunch Break

1:30 pm  – Presentation  – Leonard Downie, Vice President at Large and Former Executive Editor, The Washington Post

1:45 pm – Presentation – Lem Lloyd, Vice President, Channel Sales, Yahoo!

2:00 pm – Presentation – Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager, Google

2:15 pm – Panel – Emerging Business Models for Journalism

• Chris Ahearn, President, Reuters Media, Thomson Reuters
• Mark Bide,  Rightscom Limited, Project Director, Automated Content Access Protocol
• Steven Brill, Co-Founder,  Journalism Online, LLC
• Lauren Rich Fine, Research Director, ContentNext Media
• Jeff Jarvis, Associate Professor, Director of the Interactive Program, City University of New York, Graduate School of Journalism
• Srinandan Kasi, Vice President and General Counsel, Associated Press
• Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land
• Robert Thomson, Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal

3:45 pm  – Presentation – Mike Bloxham, Director of Insight and Research, Center for Media Design, Ball State University

4:00 pm  – Presentation – Susan Athey, Professor of Economics, Harvard University

4:15 pm  – Presentation  – David Evans, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws University College London & Vice Chairman of LECG Europe

4:30pm  – Panel – Online Advertising and Consumer Demand Trends

• Barbara Bacci Mirque, Executive Vice President, Communications and Best Practices, Association of National Advertisers
• Mike Bloxham, Director of Insight and Research, Center for Media Design, Ball State University
• Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy
• Pam Horan, President, Online Publishers Association
• Joe Laszlo, Director of Research, Interactive Advertising Bureau
• John Meyer, Director of Digital Media, WTOP and Federal News Radio

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

9:00 am – Welcome  – Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

9:15 am – Presentation – James Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy Professor of Political Science and Economics & Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Sanford School of  Public Policy, Duke University

9:30 am – Presentation – Matthew Gentzkow, Professor of Economics, Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

9:45 am  – Presentation – Karen Dunlap, President and CEO, The Poynter Institute

10:00 am  – Panel – Public and Foundation-Funded Journalism

• Joaquin Alvarado, Senior Vice President for Diversity and Innovation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Tom Leonard, University Librarian and Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
• Charles Lewis,  Executive Editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication
• Mark MacCarthy, Adjunct Professor, Communication, Culture and Technology Program,  Georgetown University
• Jon McTaggart,  Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, American Public Media
• Eric Newton, Vice President, Journalism Program, Knight Foundation
• Vivian Schiller, President and CEO,  National Public Radio
• Josh Silver, Executive Director, Free Press

11:45 am – 1:00pm – Lunch Break

1:00 pm – Panel – Reducing the Costs of Journalism

• Bill Adair, Editor, PolitiFact, Washington Bureau Chief, St. Petersburg Times
• Bill Allison, Editorial Director, Sunlight Foundation
• Bill Buzenberg, Executive Director, The Center for Public Integrity
• Aneesh Chopra, Assistant to the President, Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for the Office of Science & Technology of the Executive, Office of the President
• James Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Political Science and Economics Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
• Alisa Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Public Radio International
• Aron Pilhofer, Editor, Interactive News Technologies, The New York Times & Co-Founder, DocumentCloud
• Eric Umansky, Senior Editor, ProPublica, Co-Founder, DocumentCloud

2:30 pm  – Presentation- Knight Foundation Commission on The Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy

• Reed Hundt, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company, Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

2:45 pm  – Panel – Engaging and Informing Consumers in the Internet Age

• Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Professor and Director of the Communication Technology and Community Program, Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California
• James Gaines, Editor-in-Chief, FLYP Media & Former Editor, Time
• Jon Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corp.
• Debra Osofsky, National Director, News and Broadcast, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
• Tom Rosenstiel, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Pew Research Center
• Jason Seiken, Senior Vice President, PBS Interactive
• Linda Solomon, Photojournalist, Committee Member, Citizens to Save the Eccentric
• Kathy Times, President, National Association of Black Journalists

4:00 pm  – Presentation – Lisa George, Assistant Professor of Economics, Hunter College

4:15 pm – Panel – The New News

• Jim Brady, Allbritton Communications
• Christopher Callahan,  Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication,  Arizona State University
• Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
• Bill Densmore, Vice President, Director, and Co-Founder, CircLabs Inc.
• Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Media Access Project
• John Servais, Founder,  NWCitizen.us