Posted on: Thursday, March 15, 2001

Media council plans 30th Information Day

Advertiser Staff

The Honolulu Community-Media Council's 30th Freedom of Information Day 2001 Conference, "Democracy and Emerging Media: Partners or Adversaries," is set for tomorrow evening and all day Saturday at the East-West Center, culminating in a 30th anniversary celebration dinner at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Halekulani Hotel.

The dinner celebration includes presentation of the Fletcher Knebel Awards for journalistic accomplishment, as well as food, drink and entertainment.

The schedule for the conference is as follows:

Friday

• 7 p.m.: "An Evening with James Fallows," an open-mike conversation with the author of "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy," followed by a reception.

Saturday

• 8:30 a.m.: Registration.

• 9 a.m.: Keynote address by James Fallows, "How the Media Undermine American Democracy."

• 10 a.m.: Panel discussion, "Media and Democracy in Hawai'i: Friends or Foes?," with Advertiser editorial page editor Jerry Burris, community activist Puanani Burgess, public relations specialist Kitty Lagareta, Honolulu Weekly cartoonist John Pritchett and UH journalism professor Beverly Keever (moderator).

• 11 a.m.: Panel discussion, "Can We Do TV News Better?," with Sean McLaughlin of Maui County Community Television, Mike McCartney of Hawai'i Public Television, Majid Tehranian of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, Wally Zimmerman of KITV-4 News and Richard C. Vincent of the UH Communications program (moderator).

• 1 p.m.: Keynote address by Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, "Surveying the Digital Future:

The Social Political and Economic Impact of the Internet."

• 2:30 p.m.: Panel discussion, "Remedial Media: Living in the Digital Future," with Kit Beuret of Oceanic Cable/AOL Time Water, Susan Kreifels of the East-West Center, Virginia Lowell of the Hawai'i State Library, Scott Whitney of Honolulu Magazine and Beth-Ann Kozlovich of Hawai'i Public Radio (moderator).

• 3:30 p.m.: Panel discussion, "The Future of News: It's All Geek to Me," with William Barker of Pacificnews.net, Jacki Dopplemayer of Hawaii.com, Blaine Ferg-strom of Starbulletin.com, Mike Meyers of Wave Internet and Peter Rosegg of StarrPR Public Relations (moderator).

• 7 p.m.: Honolulu Community-Media Council 30th Anniversary Celebration, Halekulani Hotel.

To be honored with the Fletcher Knebel Awards: retired Star-Bulletin managing editor David Shapiro and UH professor Beverly Keever.

Tickets for the conference: $50 with lunch; $30 conference only; $40 with lunch for Media Council members, sponsor members and students. Call 944-7111.

Tickets for the celebration dinner: $65; 222-3035 or e-mail bkoz1@aol.com

The celebration is open to the public. Reservations are still available at 222-3035 or via e-mail at bkoz1@aol.com