This is the era of alternative facts. Newsgathering and dissemination
is changing fast, and these experts are tirelessly working for the
truth — where to find it, how to present it, and who needs to hear
it — for a changing audience and national culture.The OUTSPOKEN
MEDIA STRATEGY SERIES returns with a panel of media experts: WAMC News
Director Ian Pickus, POLITICO Albany Bureau Chief Jimmy Vielkind, All
Over Albany co-founder Greg Dahlmann, and UAlbany Associate Professor
and investigative journalist Rosemary Armao who will discuss where the
news is today and where it's headed. Outspoken Media CEO Rhea Drysdale
will moderate.
SCHEDULE:
* 6:30pm – Networking, drinks, and hors d’oeuvres
* 7pm - 8:30pm – Panel discussion and Q&A
PANELISTS:
ROSEMARY ARMAO: Rosemary Armao returned to the Albany area after
decades covering news and politics around the world, including Eastern
Europe and Africa. She is the former Executive Director of
Investigative Reporters and Editors and former President of the
Journalism and Women Symposium. She teaches at SUNY Albany and can be
heard regularly on WAMC's The Roundtable.
GREG DAHLMANN: Greg Dahlmann is the co-founder of All Over Albany.
Before that, he worked in public radio as a reporter, host, and
producer.
IAN PICKUS: Ian Pickus has been news director at WAMC/Northeast
Public Radio since 2013, overseeing a network of reporters and
producers in a six-state listening area. He was previously a newsroom
producer, joining the station 2008. He has been a lecturer in the
University at Albany journalism program since 2013. He holds a BA in
English and journalism and an MA in English, both from the University
at Albany.
JIMMY VIELKIND: Jimmy Vielkind is a founding member of POLITICO's New
York State Capitol bureau, becoming bureau chief in 2013. He has been
reporting on New York State news and politics since 2008, first for
the _New York Observer_ and then for the _Times Union_.
All proceeds will be donated to _ProPublica_
[https://www.propublica.org/], an independent, non-profit newsroom
that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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