Program Details

[Note the conference program is a work in progress and subject to change. This page will be updated as new information or changes are confirmed.]

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Friday, June 6th

10:00am - 12:00pm	Opening Plenary Lineup of Presenters To Be Announced
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Cable Battles: A Year in Review Barbara Popovic, Gene Kimmelman, Harold Feld, Harry Haasch, John Dunbar, Libby Beaty
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Organizing Faith Communities for Media Reform Bennett Guess, Cheryl Leanza, Kathy Partridge, Romal J. Tune, Vic Rosenthal
1:30pm - 3:00pm	First Amendment Challenge C. Edwin Baker, Caroline Frederickson, Josh Wolf, Marvin Ammori, Ted Miller
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Women & Journalism: Then and Now Catherine Crier, Jessica Valenti, Kathy Magnuson
1:30pm - 3:00pm	How Independent Media Creates Change Daisy Hernández, Jane Hamsher, Jefferson Morley, Robert Greenwald, Tracy Van Slyke
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Media and Elections David Sirota, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Robert Baker, Zack Exley
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Future of the Internet: Open, Neutral, Mobile and Ubiquitous Eloise-Rose Lee, Susan Crawford, Tim Karr, Tim Wu
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Spanish-Language Media Federico Subervi, Mari Castañeda, Mario Duarte, Ronald Gordon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Hip Hop Activism: Urban Strategies and Media Coalitions Julie Chang-Shulman, Shamako Noble, Willie "J.R." Flemming
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Shaping the Internet the Fun & Easy Way Abdulai Bah, Alexis Walker, Brian Garrido, Donald Anthonyson, Joshua Breitbart
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Legislation 2.0 Andre Banks, Judith Freeman, Matt Stoller, Micah Sifry
3:30pm - 5:00pm	In the Mix: Understanding New Music Services Ann Chaitovitz, Bryan Calhoun, John Strohm, Peter Gordon
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Media and Democracy Reform David Cobb, Malia Lazu, Rob Richie, Solange Hansen, Susannah Goodman
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Minnesota Model David Schimke, Janis Lane Ewart, Jeremy Iggers, Sarah Lutman, Vickie Evans-Nash
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Media Critics Diane Farsetta, Eric Boehlert, Eric Deggans, Janine Jackson, Jeff Cohen, Paul Schmelzer
3:30pm - 5:00pm	DTV: The Day TV Screen Go Dark Erica Swanson, Jeffrey Davis, Jennifer Simpson, Joel Kelsey, Leonie Campbell
3:30pm - 5:00pm	State of Diversity George Curry, Juan Gonzalez, Kristal Brent Zook, Rosa Clemente
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Organizing Locally at the Grassroots Karen Toering, Nancy Doyle Brown, Steve Macek, Todd Wolfson, Tracy Rosenberg
5:30pm - 7:00pm	State and Regional Caucuses Presented by the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG Net)

Saturday, June 7th

8:00am - 9:00am	Bill Moyers Keynote Bill Moyers
9:15am - 10:45am	From Broadcast to Broadband Amy Goodman, Robert McChesney, Tim Wu
9:15am - 10:45am	Precious Places: Public Platforms and Neutral Networks - Strategic Uses of Community Technology in our Wired and Wireless World Anthony Riddle, Dee Dee Halleck, Lauren Glenn Davitian, Louis Massiah
9:15am - 10:45am	Cell Phone Politics Becky Bond, Jed Alpert, Stephen Bradberry
9:15am - 10:45am	Grassroots Lobbying 101 Chris Murray, Hannah Jane Sassaman, Joel Kelsey, Parul Desai, Sakura Saunders
9:15am - 10:45am	Spectrum 2.0: How We Use Public Airwaves to Build the Future of the Internet Christopher Mitchell, Geoffrey Blackwell, Maura Corbett, Sascha Meinrath, Wally Bowen
9:15am - 10:45am	Media Reform and Social Change Movements Deepa Fernandes, E. Faye Williams, Mark Lloyd, Medea Benjamin
9:15am - 10:45am	Coverage of Race and Gender in Presidential Elections Kim Gandy, Laura Flanders, Laura Washington, Leonard Baynes, Roberto Lovato
9:15am - 10:45am	How to Tell your Story: Messaging Training Mike Smith, Robert Pérez
11:15am - 12:45pm	The Rise in Hate Speech Alex Nogales, Corrine Yu, John Trasviña, Marilyn Mayo, Mark Kapelhoff, Mark Potok
11:15am - 12:45pm	Media Ownership Fight: Where We Are, What's Next Alexandra Russell, Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Frannie Wellings, Ivan Roman, Silvia Rivera
11:15am - 12:45pm	Winning Technology and Media Reform Policy in the States Amina Fazlullah, Catherine Settanni, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Jef Pearlman, Julie Schwartz, Susan Satter
11:15am - 12:45pm	Media and the War Amy Goodman, Lennox Yearwood, Naomi Klein, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar
11:15am - 12:45pm	There is No Media Justice Without Women: Models for Feminist Social Justice Media Activism Anne Elizabeth Moore, Betty Yu, Deanne Cuellar, Jennifer Pozner, Shireen Mitchell
11:15am - 12:45pm	Netroots: What's Next? Baratunde Thurston, Cenk Uygur, Duncan Black, Gina Cooper, Robin Marty
11:15am - 12:45pm	Privacy in the Age of AT&T, 'GoogleClick' and the NSA Bob Edgar, Christy Hardin Smith, Lillie Coney, Tim Jones, Tim Sparapani
11:15am - 12:45pm	Campus Organizing Camille Cyprian, Erica Williams, Josh Stearns, Mattie Weiss
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Media Policy in a New Congress Ben Scott, Jonathan Adelstein, Michael Copps, Mike Doyle
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Fundraising Workshop Beth McConnell, Courtney Young, Hye-Jung Park, John Graves, Kwame Tsikata, Russell Roybal
2:15pm - 3:45pm	The State of Black Radio Bruce Dixon, Glen Ford, Jared Ball, Lisa Fager Bediako
2:15pm - 3:45pm	New Media and Investigative Journalism Dan Gillmor, Ellen Miller, Linda Jue, Marcy Wheeler, Michael Skoler
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Everyday Heroes Eric Klinenberg, Gina McCauley, Robb Topolski, Spocko
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Past Success and Future Possibilites: A Discussion with Media Reform Pioneers George Stoney, Nicholas Johnson, Randall Pinkston
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Consolidated Media and the Creative Talent of the Entertainment Industry – Lessons from the Past and Program for the Future Michael Winship, Patric M. Verrone
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Copyright Wars: Will Filtering Censor Free Speech and Undermine Network Neutrality? Alex Curtis, Alison Hanold, Elizabeth Stark, Fritz Attaway, Rob Millis
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Organizing for Change on the Social Web Andre Banks, Andrew Slack, Craig Newmark, Deanna Zandt, Ruby Sinreich
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Ethnic Media Anthony "Onie" Advincula, Edwin Okong'o, Juana Ponce de Leon, Kimberly Chuang, Loris Ann Taylor
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Owning Our Own & Reaching the Masses Arianna Huffington, Davey D, Greg Watkins
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Creating Media Reformers with Media Education Bob McCannon, Rob Williams
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Fight Fire with Fire: Strategic Media to Reform the Media Isobel White, Josh Seidenfeld
4:15pm - 5:45pm	Newspapers: Not Dead Yet? Joel Kramer, John Nichols, Linda Foley, Ryan Blethen
4:15pm - 5:45pm	An Inside Look at Washington: Report from Capitol Hill Kenneth DeGraff, Shawn Chang
8:00pm - 10:30pm	Keynote Session Lineup of Presenters To Be Announced

Sunday, June 8th

9:30am - 11:00am	New Directions in Public Media Alyce Myatt, Helen De Michiel, Jessica Clark, Jim Pagliarini, Nick Penniman
9:30am - 11:00am	Are You Being Served? A Beginner's Guild to the FCC in Holding Local Broadcast Stations Accountable Angela Campbell, Coriell Wright, Jessica Gonzalez
9:30am - 11:00am	Where We'll Take It Anthony Williams, Jeanette Lee
9:30am - 11:00am	Online & Offline: Connecting the Netroots & Grassroots Brian Reich, Chris Parandian, Cristen Perks, Ira Horowitz, Richard Beach
9:30am - 11:00am	Building & Framing a Progressive Infrastructure Josué Guillén, Kimberly Freeman, Richard Healy
9:30am - 11:00am	Grassroots Organizing Training Michael Jacoby Brown
11:30am - 1:00pm	Closing Plenary Lineup of Presenters To Be Announced