Media panel

Subject: Forum - "News Media in Transition: Trends and Future Prospects"
Sent by: Helen Donegan, Vice President Community Relations for UCF Global
Perspectives

A group of prominent writers, editors, columnists, broadcasters and bloggers
will share their thoughts on prospects for the news media during a public forum
Thursday, January 21, at the University of Central Florida.

"News Media in Transition: Trends and Future Prospects" will be held Thursday,
January 21, 2010, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the Cape Florida Ballroom of
the Student Union on UCF's main campus.

There will be an opening keynote address on the evolving role of electronic
media by Suzanne Seggerman, President and Co-Founder, Games for Change, and a
former documentary film producer for PBS.

Others presenting at this forum include Sara R. Brady, Sara Brady Public
Relations (formerly with Bright House Networks); Ruben Funes, Editor-in-Chief,
La Prensa; Charlotte Hall, Editor, the Orlando Sentinel; James S. Hill,
Managing Editor, The Washington Post Writers Group; Jamie McIntyre, former CNN
Senior Pentagon Correspondent, blogger and consultant; Amitabh Pal, Co-Editor,
The Progressive Media Project.

This forum is free and open to the public.

Sponsors of the forum include the UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Nicholson
School of Communication, UCF Political Science Department and the Global
Connections Foundation.