Date: Nov. 2, 2009
Time: 1 p.m. Eastern
Presenters: Len Downie
Moderator: Marty Kaiser

Is Leonard Downie Jr. right when he says that designating FCC fees and funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are acceptable means to strengthen local journalism and accountability reporting?

Here's your chance to engage Downie in candid discussion about The Reconstruction of American Journalism report. Join him in an ASNE webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern, Monday, Nov. 2. The session is free to ASNE members, $50 to nonmembers. Please click the link below to register.

The session will be moderated by Marty Kaiser, ASNE president and editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Downie is vice president at large at The Washington Post and Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Downie co-wrote the report with Michael Schudson, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The report, commissioned by the j-school, says journalism is being reinvented in promising ways.

Download the report here.

The ASNE webinars are supported, in part, by the McCormick Foundation. Participation is limited to 50 on a first-come, first-served basis.

Date: 9/3/09
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern
Presenters: John Cherwa, Kevin Goldberg, Dave Tomlin 
Moderator: Tim Franklin

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Faced with restrictive sports credentials?

ASNE can help. Register now for the webinar, “Unlocking the Mystery of Sports Credentials" on Thursday, Sept. 3 from 2 p.m.-3 p.m. Eastern. Registration is $50 for nonmembers of ASNE. Please click on the link below to register.

Hear from the experts what you can do to fight back . Join John Cherwa of The Los Angeles Times; ASNE Legal Counsel Kevin M. Goldberg and David Tomlin, Associate General Counsel of the Associated Press. The session will be moderated by Tim Franklin, ASNE Freedom of Information Committee Co-Chair and the Louis A. Weil Jr. Endowed Chair at the Indiana University School of Journalism.

You will learn:

• What rights you and other news organizations really have
• The "gotcha" phrases to look out for
• Ways around the restrictions
• Long-term solutions

The webinars are supported, in part, by the McCormick Foundation. They are the work of the ASNE Innovation Committee.

Date: July 29
Time: 4 p.m. Eastern
Presenters: David Bessen and Walter Hussman
Moderator: Edward Seaton

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Join a conversation with executives who are at various stages of charging for online content: David M. Bessen, vice president of MediaNews Group; Walter Hussman, president and CEO of WEHCO Media, Little Rock, Ark., and Edward L. Seaton, editor-in-chief, The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury.

The webinar will address a number of questions, including:

• Why have a pay wall?
• What form might it take?
• What goes behind the pay wall?
• How much to charge?

Presenter: Mike Fancher
Date: June 23
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern

How can we better serve our readers with new technologies, transfer our key journalistic values to online and leverage them to separate us from competitors?

Date: Wednesday May 13
Time: 4 p.m. Eastern
Moderator: Susan Goldberg, editor, The Plain Dealer
Presenters: David Shribman, executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Neil Brown, executive editor, St. Petersburg Times.

A look at new sharing initiatives in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida as papers cut costs by putting aside past competition and capitalizing on one another´s strengths.