EVENTS: The Wall Street meltdown + One Web Day
Dear MA, PT and PhD students:
Wanted to alert you to two parallel events that you might like to consider attending on Monday.
The first is a special J-school panel aimed at the full-time MS class about connecting the Wall Street crisis with the everyday residents in NYC. We have a terrific set of speakers. See details below. All of you are welcome to attend.
The second is an event that’s part of One Web Day and takes place downtown at Washington Square Park by NYU (you can attend, or volunteer to help out). Details below. Because the other event runs exactly at the same time, we are not advertising this to the full-time MS students.
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A special panel on Wall Street and the economy will meet at noon-1 Monday, Sept. 22, in the Lecture Hall.
Our panel members will discuss how the immediate and the broader economic downturn will affect New York City. We believe students will learn a great deal about the complex events that led to this crisis and how they can come up with stories that reflect these issues.
The panel is expected to include:
— Ronnie Lowenstein, director of the city’s Independent Budget Office, which provides budgetary, economic and policy analysis for New York residents and officials. Before joining IBO, Ms. Lowenstein was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and taught economics at Barnard. She has a PhD in economics from Columbia.
— Connie Mitchell-Ford, who oversees real-estate coverage for The Wall Street Journal. Her reporters cover commercial and residential real estate, the mortgage market (including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and personal finance. She previously served as the Journal’s economics editor and oversaw coverage of employment, the domestic and global economy, and academic economics.
— Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, who previously worked as an editor and columnist at Barron’s, the Dow Jones weekly business magazine. Named the best commodities reporter in the country, Ms. Einhorn also worked for CNBC. Cheryl, an alumna of the Journalism School, has also taught business writing here and has written for the New York Times and other publications.
— Alair Townsend, an overseer of TIAA-CREF, which provides financial services to people in the academic and medical sectors. She previously served as publisher of Crain’s New York Business and is still a columnist for the publication. She also served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Finance and Economic Development and as its Budget Director.
Bill Grueskin, dean of academic affairs and former deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal will moderate.
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ONE WEB DAY
folks: looking for volunteers to help out and handle some of the
big-name speakers (well, all are big-name except for one) listed
below.
prof. susan crawford the organizer, asks: “Could you find 5-10
students who would be willing to wear OWD t-shirts (supplied by me)
and watch over individual speakers?”
if you can help, just send me your name and i will pass it along. we
could all head down there together or meet there. if you just want to
attend, no need to write to me, of course.
please do NOT sign up if your RW1 professor is expecting you to attend the economy panel taking place at the J-school at the same time.
OneWebDay Brings Internet Visionaries to New York City
Workshops for the Public, a Teach-in for Seniors and a Rally Starring
Hon. Gale Brewer, Sree Sreenivasan, Craig Newmark, John Perry Barlow,
Tim Westergren, Lawrence Lessig and Others
New York, NY – On the third annual “Earth Day for the Internet”,
communities across the country are holding events to learn about and
advocate for that marvel of modern infrastructure, the Internet. It
happens in the United States and around the world on OneWebDay,
Monday, September 22, 2008, with New York City, where it launched
three years ago, the epicenter of this year’s celebration.
“Earth Day was the model when I founded OneWebDay in 2006,” says Susan
Crawford, a professor of law specializing in Internet issues at the
University of Michigan. “In 1969, one man asked the people to do what
their elected representatives would not: take the future of the
environment into their own hands.” According to Crawford, “people’s
lives now are as dependent on the Internet as they are on the basics
like roads, energy supplies and running water. We can no longer take
that for granted, and we must advocate for the Internet politically,
and support its vitality personally.”
The theme of this year’s OneWebDay is online participation in
democracy, coinciding with the U.S. elections, and that will be the
central focus of events in Washington, DC.
The online hub for OneWebDay 2008 is www.onewebday.org, but New York
hosts the biggest real world events on September 20 and 22, including
a cyber-star studded rally where audience members will text questions
to the moderator. All events are free and open to the public.
New York City Events
(1) WHAT: Rally for the Internet Main Event
WHEN: Monday, September 22, 11:45 A.M. – 2 P.M.
WHERE: Washington Square Park Teen Plaza, W. 4th St. @ University Pl.
WHO: Susan Crawford, Founder of OneWebDay;
Hon. Gale A. Brewer, New York City Council;
Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism and WNBC-TV;
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora free Internet radio;
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law and author of “Code V.2″;
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist;
Dharma Dailey, Research Director at Ethos Wireless consulting;
John Perry Barlow, founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation;
Andrew Baron, producer at Rocketboom video news blog;
Samuel J. Klein, Director of Community Content at One Laptop Per
Child; others TBA.
Details at: http://www.onewebday.org/base/index.php/New_York
