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Thursday, December 04, 2008 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (PT)
RSVPS ARE NOW CLOSED. BUT WALK-UP TRAFFIC IS WELCOME! WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU TONIGHT!
Come celebrate two grassroots efforts to bring professional, noncommercial journalism to the San Francisco Bay Area.
This is a free event benefiting The Public Press and Newsdesk.org
Featuring:
• “Truthiness”: The SF election-ad fact-checking project
• The best of Bay Area documentary photography
• Reception for leading local public-media pioneers with complimentary beer, wine and appetizers
Support our fundraiser — bring your checkbook!
If you can't make the event, we welcome your online donations! Please choose "Indy Journalism Benefit" from the dropdown menu on our donor page.
Please JOIN US ...
Cristina Azocar, director, Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University
Bill Briggs, director, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University
David Cohn, founder, Spot.Us journalism microfunding project
Malkia Cyril, director, Center for Media Justice
Louis Freedberg, director, California Media Collaborative
Dorothy Kidd, professor of media studies, University of San Francisco
Steve Jones, city editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Holly Kernan, news director, Crosscurrents on KALW Radio
Lila LaHood, grant writer and journalist
David Mathison, author, “Be the Media”
Chris O’Brien, business columnist, San Jose Mercury News, and founder, the Next Newsroom Project
Jeff Perlstein, program coordinator for media policy, Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media
Jonathan Rowe, founding co-director, West Marin Commons, contributing editor, Washington Monthly
Ron Rowell, social justice program officer, San Francisco Foundation
Marc Smolowitz, producer, TellyTopia
Norman Solomon, author and syndicated columnist
Venise Wagner, journalism chair, San Francisco State University
About The Public Press: The San Francisco Public Press is a new nonprofit local news organization whose aim is to increase the coverage of important but under-covered news topics through a daily print newspaper and the Web. The paper will stress government and private-sector accountability, consumer protection and issues of social inequality. We are developing a business model unique in the newspaper world, balancing subscription revenue with public-broadcasting-style pledges and philanthropy.
About Newsdesk.org: Since 2000, Newsdesk.org has led commercial mass media with groundbreaking, nonpoliticized coverage of veterans' health care and PTSD; the 2004 presidential election and the 2003 San Francisco mayoral runoff; the energy industry in the developing world; genetically engineered agriculture, and much more. Newsdesk also is the producer of News You Might Have Missed, a unique source for important but overlooked news from around the world, published every Wednesday since February 2002.
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