Boston Seminar, Friday May 14:: International Journalists, Experts on Media Globalization


Media Advisory
Thursday, May 13, 1999


Boston Seminar, Friday May 14:

International Journalists, Experts on Media Globalization

The Newspaper Guild-CWA, together with the International Federation of Journalists, will hold a one-day seminar on "Globalization of the Media and its Effect on Journalists" on Friday, May 14 in Boston.

The daylong program will cover today's top issues in journalism and reporting: the effort to balance audience and business interests and journalists' values; the globalization of media ownership; intellectual property rights and more. It will begin at 9 a.m. at the Boston Teachers Union, Carson Place, 180 Mt. Vernon St., in Boston. (See agenda)

Participants will include Aidan White, general secretary of the IFJ, who has just returned from Belgrade and who will report on the war's impact on journalists and the media in the Balkans.

The IFJ has begun a solidarity program to support independent media and journalists affected by the conflict in Serbia, including solidarity centers, humanitarian assistance to displaced journalists and those who have been the victims of violence and other emergency aid.

Featured speaker is Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on current and international affairs, as well as intellectual history and philosophy. His works include Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and U.S. Political Culture; Profit Over People; and World Orders, Old and New.

TNG-CWA President Linda Foley; Bill Kovach, who heads the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University; and Mark Crispin Miller of New York University's Project
of Media Ownership are among the participants.

TNG-CWA represents more than 35,000 journalists and newspaper workers; the IFJ is the largest journalist organization in the world, representing some 450,000 journalists in 100 countries.

The seminar will be held at the Boston Teachers Union, Carson Place, 180 Mt. Vernon Street in Boston. For more information and directions, contact the Boston Teachers Union function office at 617/288-3322.
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Globalization of the Media
And Its Effect on Journalists

International Federation of Journalists
Boston Teachers Union, Boston, MA

May 14, 1999

9 a.m. Introduction and Welcome
Linda Foley, President,
The Newspaper Guild - CWA

9:15 a.m. Mass Media and Globalization
The Owners and the Corporations
Mark Crispin Miller, New York University
Project of Media Ownership
Striking the Balance: Audience
Interests, Business
Pressures and Journalists' Values
Bill Kovach, Nieman Foundation
Committee of Concerned Journalists,
Pew Foundation Project for
Excellence in Journalism

11 a.m. Coffee Break

11:15 a.m. Intellectual Property Rights
Carol Oberdorfer, Reporter,
Bureau of National Affairs
Jonathan Tasini, National Writers Union

12:30 p.m. - Lunch

1:30 p.m. - The Unions Respond
New Technology, New Work
Marian Needham, The Newspaper Guild-CWA
Collective Bargaining Department
Building Power Through Mobilization
Steve Early, CWA Staff Representative

3 p.m. - Coffee break

3:15 p.m. Taking on Reuters A Global Project

4:30 p.m. Boston Globe Tour & Reception (Depart)

5 p.m. Tour of Boston Globe newspaper

6 p.m. Reception featuring:
Noam Chomsky, Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hosted by The Boston Globe Employees Association (TNG-CWA Local 31245) and Newspaper Guild of Greater Boston (TNG-CWA Local 31032)