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Highlights
Panel discussions by five university presidents and top news media leaders, including Ted Koppel; a keynote address by Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. publisher of The New York Times; a conversation with author David Mindich; remarks by leaders representing three foundations supporting the News Literacy initiative, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the McCormick Foundation; a presentation of Stony Brook University’s pioneering News Literacy course; reports from other News Literacy innovators on the “front lines;” and conference recommendations and next steps.
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Special announcements
LSU President John Lombardi and Dean John Hamilton of the university’s Manship School of Communication announced a newly created endowed chair in Media Literacy to work in partnership with Stony Brook’s Center for News Literacy; Syracuse University President Nancy Cantor announced that her university will begin teaching News Literacy as a general education course in the spring of 2010.
At the concluding session of the conference, 