roundtable: TPR-NE*What Journalists Know?*Jan18

roundtable: TPR-NE*What Journalists Know?*Jan18

TPR-NE*What Journalists Know?*Jan18

Howard Frederick (hfrederick@igc.apc.org)
Mon, 2 Jan 1995 12:18:59 -0800 

Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 12:18:59 -0800
From: Howard Frederick <hfrederick@igc.apc.org>
Message-Id: <199501022018.MAA28755@igc2.igc.apc.org>
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Subject: TPR-NE*What Journalists Know?*Jan18


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         TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY ROUNDTABLE--NORTHEAST
                       AND EMERSON COLLEGE 

                  "What Do Journalists Know and 
            What Ought They Know about the Internet?"  

           Press Conference and Cable Television Event
        -->>  Wednesday, January 18, 1994, 7 - 9 PM  <<--                             

    Emerson College Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts
  180 Tremont Street (Boylston), 12th floor  T Stop:  Boylston

  Sponsored by Telecommunications Policy Roundtable--Northeast
         and Emerson College Mass Communication Division 
               and Communication Studies Division

Journalists, educators and policy makers discuss Internet policies and 
     practice that affect journalists and the news business.  
     Moderator: Phyllis Haynes, journalism professor, Emerson College.

"Journalists of the Future," 12-minute video by and with d.b. 
     Roderick, a critical look at the challenges facing professional 
     journalists in cyberspace, produced for the Washington Post.  

"Factchecking, Disinformation, and Story Verification on the Net," 
     David Armstrong, Boston Globe 
"Roadmap to the Big 1995 Cyberstories," Simson L. Garfinkel, author 
     _PGP: Pretty Good Privacy_ (O'Reilly); contributing writer, Wired.  
"Telecommunications Policy in the New Congress," Jeff Chester, Center 
     for Media Education, Washington, DC

"How to Locate Alternative News Agencies on the Internet," Brian 
     Murphy, founder, Africa Information Afrique
"How to Use the Stanford NetNews Filter," Curtiss Priest, Center for 
     Information Technology & Society 
"How to Use IGC's ConfScan Feature," Peter Miller, "Community 
     Technology Center News" and Playing to Win Network

                 -->>  Upcoming TPR-NE/Emerson Events <<--

Feb 15: "Impact of Videodialtone on Public Broadcasting and Cable Access"  
Mar 15: "The Dark Side of the Chip:  Electronic Exploitation and 
        Violation of Privacy"  
Apr 20  "Health Stops on the Information I-way"  
May 17: "Designing the Next Millennium's Communication Infrastructure:  
        For Whose Benefit?"  
Jun 21: "How Communities Can Make the Internet Come to Town?"  
Jul 19: "Freedom to Communicate?  Internet and the Human Rights"  
Aug 16: "How Will the Disabled Navigate the Information Superhighway?"  

For more information on this event, call Howard Frederick, 617-578-8875

     ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY ROUNDTABLE -- NORTHEAST

     Since 1992 a coalition of non-profit and public interest groups 
concerned about the future of the information superhighway has been 
meeting in Washington D.C.  This group is known at the 
Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (TPR).  Its members include 
public access television professionals, computer professionals, 
activists, libraries, museums, media watchdog groups, educators, and 
many more.  The TPR is credited with making a positive impact on 
telecommunications legislation in the past year.
 
     In September 1994, a regional coalition was born in Boston.  The 
Telecommunications Policy Roundtable -- Northeast ("TPR-Northeast") 
brings together local counterparts of the national coalition in order 
to further the public interest in telecommunications policy.  The 
purpose of TPR-NE is to form a network of groups capable of taking 
coordinated action in representing the public interest in the National 
Information Infrastructure.  
 
     TPR-NE subscribes to a series of principles to guide policymaking 
in order to ensure that future generations inherit an information 
infrastructure which enhances the quality of life for everyone.  The 
seven principles are:

o  Universal access -- In our information age, everyone has a right to 
affordable news, education and government information.  Information 
that is essential to the functioning of citizens in a democracy should 
be free.

o  Freedom to Communicate -- Information is a two way street.  The 
design of the new networks should aid two-way audio and video 
communication from anyone to any individual, group or network.

o  Vital civic sector -- The new networks should allow all groups and 
individuals to freely express their ideas and opinions.  The new 
networks should include a way for us to build communities.

o  Diverse and competitive marketplace --  No one should ever control 
both the wire or wires into our home and the content of the programs 
that go over those wires.

o  Equitable workplace -- workers must be valued and protected in the 
new electronic workplace.  Nondiscriminatory practices must form the 
core of the new information marketplace.

o  Privacy protection -- Privacy should be carefully protected and 
extended.

o  Democratic policy making -- Every American deserves to be heard on 
this complex set of issues.

For more information about TPR-NE, contact:  
 
Paul Johnson, CPPAX, Tel: (617) 426-3040 or (508) 653-5987
pjbrady@delphi.com

Hans Klein, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
hklein@mit.edu

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