What do Women Want?
What are Women Entrepreneurs Doing?

Panel Discussion Moderated by Jan Schaffer, J-Lab Executive Director
2010 AEJMC Conference
August 5, 2010
Denver, Colorado

Panelists:

Maria Ivancin, Assistant Professor, American University - Washington, DC
Susan Mernit, Founder, OaklandLocal.com
Susan McBride, Co-Founder, ChicagoTalks.org and AustinTalks.org, Columbia College - Chicago

New media women entrepreneurs area in the vanguard of creating hyperlocal community news sites and placeblogs around the country and new forms of journalism are being created where these sites have launched. Hear from several site founders about what they are doing and why. And hear about new J-Lab/American University research reporting how the new journalism is characterized by a new definition of objectivity, a drive for community conversation and discussion, and broader definitions of “news.”

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