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ASNE roundtable to help kick off Engage Local conference

 
ASNE's National Community and News Literacy Roundtables Project is helping kick off Engage Local, an important two-day dive into media and civic engagement, presented by Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media

The 7-9 p.m. town hall Monday, June 15, will feature a cross-section of community leaders and media members engaging the public in a discussion about what happens when money comes into an economically depleted city and how Newark's experience is reported and debated in the community.

 

Join us June 15-16 at Engage Local, an important dive into media and civic engagement, presented by Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative MediaOur National Community and News Literacy Roundtables Project will help open the conference. 

 

On Monday, June 15, journalists, civic leaders and the public will gather at NJPAC in downtown Newark to discuss a question raised by the very venue: Is one man's economic renaissance another man's gentrification? The 7-9 p.m. town hall will feature a cross-section of community leaders and media members engaging the public in a discussion about what happens when money comes into an economically depleted city and how Newark's experience is reported and debated in the community.

Day Two of the conference, Tuesday, June 16, will take place across the street at the historic Robert Treat Hotel and open with a conversation between Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, and Merrill Brown, director of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University.

Click here to read more, and click here to register for the conference and the opening town hall event!

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