Featured Speakers

Featured Speakers

  • Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and 2008 political editor, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
  • Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University.

Presenters Listed alphabetically

  • Bob Calo, national coordinator of News21.
  • Robin Reiter-Faragalli, consultant to Council on Foundations.
  • Lewis A. Friedland, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Dan Gillmor, founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
  • Rich Gordon, associate professor of journalism and director of digital media in education, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
  • Steve Gunderson, president and chief executive officer of the Council on Foundations.
  • Jay Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Political Science at Duke University.
  • Alberto Ibargüen, president and chief executive officer of Knight Foundation.
  • Gary Kebbel, Journalism Program Officer, Knight Foundation.
  • Eric Klinenberg, associate professor of sociology at New York University and fellow, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
  • Dianne Lynch, dean, Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.
  • Mike Maidenberg, former vice president / Communities Program, Knight Foundation.
  • Eric Newton, vice president / Journalism Program, Knight Foundation.
  • Dale Peskin, principal and managing director, iFOCOS.
  • Vikki Porter, director, Knight Digital Media Center.
  • Mitchel Resnick, professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab.
  • Jan Schaffer, executive director, J-Lab, University of Maryland.
  • Scot M. Rourke, president, OneCommunity.
  • José Carlos Zamora, Journalism Program Associate, Knight Foundation.