ATHENS, Ohio -- International Media 2000, a conference on foreign correspondence and
overseas media systems, will be held March 1011 at Scripps Hall on Ohio University's Athens
campus. Deadline to register for the conference is March 3.
A Friday, March 10 luncheon at Baker Center opens the conference, featuring a dialogue about
Latin America between Brazilian journalist Rosental Alves, Knight Chair at the University of
TexasAustin, and Associated Press Deputy International Editor Kevin Noblet, a Scripps Howard visiting
professor.
Miami University Professor Sherrie Innes, author of "Millennium Girls," will deliver the keynote
address "Girls in the Global Village" at 1.30 p.m. in Scripps Hall's Anderson Auditorium. After the
keynote speech, three journalists Nick Tatro, G.G. Labelle and Eileen Powell will discuss news "From
Beirut to Cairo." All have been Associated Press foreign correspondents in the Middle East and other
areas. The "The Year of Living Dangerously," a film dealing with news coverage in Indonesia in 1966,
will be shown at 8 p.m. Friday.
The Saturday, March 11 schedule includes a luncheon at Baker Center with a talk "Stranger in a
Strange Land" by Terry Anderson, former AP Middle East Chief Correspondent and author of "Den of
Lions." Anderson is a Scripps Howard visiting professor.
"Since Kevin Noblet and Terry Anderson are both here this year, we decided this is the best time
for the International Conference," said Conference organizer Journalism Professor Anne CooperChen.
Concurrent research sessions featuring panelists from as far away as New Zealand will focus on
news, press freedom and control, conflict, case studies, television and technology. The invited
discussants for Saturday's sessions include John Merrill, journalism professor emeritus at University
of Missouri, Ohio University professors Dan Riffe, Robert Stewart and Ralph Izard and Professor Jae
Won Lee of Cleveland State University. Invited moderators for the discussions include Professor Nil
Bardhan of Southern Illinois University, Professor Hong Cheng of Bradley University and Ohio
University professors Pat Cambridge, Jean Steele and Hugh Culbertson.
The conference is subsidized and sponsored by the international communication division of the
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the Scripps School of
Journalism.
Registration begins at 10 a.m. in Scripps Friday. Registration fees are $45 for the full conference
and $25 for either day. Send checks payable to Ohio University, Media 2000, 102 Haning Hall, or call
593-1521 for phone registration or to pay by credit card.
