New Rules for New Media: Let Those Citizen Cyber Rants Run Raw
12:00pm
City Club of Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
Join the Cleveland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at noon Monday October 1 at the City Club of Cleveland as two Benesch attorneys and an Internet media editor discuss how developments in media law are rewriting some rules for handling postings by “citizen journalists” and blog commenters on the web.
Mark Avsec, a Benesch partner specializing in intellectual property law, and Jayne Juvan, a Benesch associate whose nationally-noted health care blog has taken her practice into cyber-legal issues, will discuss the changing legal environment for citizen-sourced web commentary. Denise Polverine, executive editor of Cleveland.com, will talk about what it is like to run a web organization with vigorous citizen commentaries.
Reservations are required and must be made by contacting Tom Moore, SPJ Cleveland Pro secretary, at (440) 333-7382 or by e-mail at tmoore56@msn.com. The program will cost SPJ members $25, nonmembers $35 and students $15. SPJ bills no-shows. Network from 11:30 a.m. to noon and the panel will begin discussions at 12:20. The speakers will field questions by 1:10 p.m. and target program end is 1:30 p.m.
SPJ Cleveland is member organization with a 50-year history of promoting freedom of the press and professional development for journalists.
Stan Bullard, an SPJ Cleveland Pro board member and senior reporter at Crain’s, assembled the program. He can be reached at 216-771-5228.
This press realease was distributed by PR Newswire, the official distributor of news releases for the Cleveland Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
