Media and Communication in the Information Age

Asheville-Citizen Times Building, Studio A, 3rd Floor , 14 O'Henry Avenue
and UNCA, Robinson Hall 223

October 16, 1996

"It is extremely powerful for people to learn from their own experience of failure"
-Ronald Heifetz

8:15        Meet at UNCA (gravel lot near intersection of Broadway and Division Street) for ride to Citizen Times Building

8:30        Coffee and Muffins

8:45        Welcome to the Asheville Citizen Times
                Virgil Smith, president and publisher

9:00         Mountain Area Information Network
                 Wally Bowen, executive director, Citizens for Media Literacy

9:45        Break

10:00       How the Media Shapes the Community or How We Influence the Media
                 Moderator: Cleve Mathews (LAS VI), former editor and Director of News and 
                  Public Affairs, National Public Radio
                 Ed Dawson, news editor, Asheville Citizen-Times
                 Jeff Fobes, editor and publisher, Mountain Xpress
                 David Hurand, news director, WCQS
                 Heide Neece, assignment editor, WLOS-TV
                 Bill McClement, news director, WWNC

12:00       Lunch

12:30       Tour
                  Bill Guadagnini, circulation manager

1:00         Van ride to UNCA

1:30         Communications in the Information Age: Untangling the Web
                 Kern Parker, director, University Computing, UNCA

Suggested Activities:

                      Browse the Web!

Special thanks to Mary Wylie (LAS IX), Donald Dossey (LAS IX), 
John Erwin (LAS VII), and Cleve Mathews (LAS VI)