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Transcript for
2005 Batten Symposium
and
Awards for Innovations in Journalism
Sept.
12, 2005
National
Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Tom Kunkel
Dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
I'm Tom
Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University
of Maryland, and on behalf of Maryland and J-Lab I'd
like to welcome you to the Batten Awards and Symposium. I'd also like
to welcome you to Washington, D.C., or as we refer to it, greater-College
Park.
This has been a wonderful session and you're in for more of the same.
We're fortunate to have these two remarkable folks who are going to have
a discussion about the media world that we're in and where we are going.
How appropriate that we're doing it in the wake of one
of the most important – sad
but crucial – multimedia stories of our time.
I
think Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have really demonstrated
what a true multimedia world we live in, because each of these media
platforms
has its great strengths and they have been able to show those and demonstrate
those to great effect.
There was an interesting statistic just out that indicates how people
are getting their news about Katrina, and the main source of news, as
you would expect, has been television, 89 percent; followed by newspapers,
35 percent; and the Internet, 21 percent, and so on and so on.
We
are living in a wired world, and one of the neat things about the Batten
Awards is that it really brings home to us the kind of remarkable
things that can be achieved. I think it also puts up the challenge
for all of us to make sure that the kind of work that we are rewarding
today are not anomalies; we can do more and more of it every day.
So welcome, again. Sit back, and I know you're going to enjoy this session.
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