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Registration open for UH Hilo Media Symposium (Oct. 1)

MEDIA RELEASE

The University of Hawaii Hilo Media Symposium is meant to serve as a training for high school and college students involved in or interested in new media, at the same time it will be a gathering of statewide journalists and bloggers with Sunshine Law champion Sen. Les Ihara and Office of Information Practices Director Cheryl Kakazu Park.

Symposium attendees will explore journalism fundamentals, receive refreshers on the Sunshine Law, libel and citizens rights and responsibilities, at the same time that they discuss how new media has changed the professions of newspapering, radio, and television and explore press credentials in the age of new media.

The Sunshine Law and social media for lawmakers will also be discussed.

Intro to blogging, an AP Style Quiz, an iPad workshop, a review of the Hawaii Police Department’s General Orders on media credentials, and a press conference on legislative and other issues pertaining to the Sunshine Law can be expected.

For further information or to register, visit: www.bigislandchronicle.com/2011/09/16/hilo-news-—-register-for-oct-1-the-uh-hilo-media-symposium/

Symposium Schedule

9 a.m. – Welcome, introductions, logistics — with Tiffany Edwards Hunt – Rm 301

9:15 a.m. – Sunshine Law Basics and An Overview of the State Office of Information Practices (OIP) — with Cheryl Kakazu Park and Jennifer Brooks – UCB 100

9:30 a.m. – Journalism 101 – Fundamentals, Layout, Associated Press (AP) style — with Loren Mitchell – Rm 306

9:45 a.m. – Legislative and Other Issues Relating to the Sunshine Law (a press conference demonstrating interviewing technique) — with Cheryl Kakazu Park and Sen. Les Ihara; Moderator: Peter Serafin – UCB 100

10:00 a.m. – Introduction to Blogging/ New Media Journalism — with Ian Lind, John Temple and Andy Parx; Moderator: Sherry Bracken – Rm 301

10:15 am – Libel and Defamation — With Steve Strauss – Rm 306

10:30 am – Ethical Considerations For Counsel When Advising Sunshine Law boards — With Cheryl Kakazu Park and Jennifer Brooks – UCB 100

11 a.m. – Citizens Right and Responsibilities — with Rick Castberg – Rm 306

11:15 a.m. – Current Trends and Predictions in New Media Locally, Nationally, and Globally — with Steve Petranik – Rm 301

12:30 p.m. – iPad workshop — with Marty Orlando of Tropic Mac – Rm 306

1 p.m. – Practicing Journalism Versus Writing Press Releases —With Karin Stanton – Rm 306

1:30 p.m. AP Style Quiz and Drawing — with Jay Hartwell – Rm 301

1:45 p.m. Old Media Versus New Media, Comparisons and Contrasts, Issues, and Opportunities — With Andy Parx, Ian Lind, John Temple, Brenda Salgado, Nancy Cook Lauer, Baron Sekiya, Steve Petranik, Hugh Clark; Moderator: Kathy Frankovic – Rm 301

3 p.m. – Fair use in the age of new media — with Steve Strauss, Rick Castberg, Baron Sekiya, Sen. Les Ihara; Moderator: Stephanie Salazar – Rm 301

UHH Media Symposium Speakers and Moderators

* Ian Lind has been blogging daily since late 1999, before the word “blog” was in general use, and is generally regarded as one of the state’s most influential bloggers. Lind was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1993-2001, and previously published “Hawaii Monitor,” a monthly newsletter covering Hawaii politics.

* John Temple is editor and general manager of Civil Beat, named Hawaii’s best overall news site in the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist’s 2010 Excellence in Journalism contest. Temple was the editor of the Rocky Mountain News for 11 years before it closed in February of 2009. Temple also served the E.W. Scripps Co., owner of the Rocky, as vice president/news of the newspaper division. Temple is a native of Vancouver, B.C., and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where he has been inducted into the Hall of Achievement.

* Andy Parx has covered Kauai government and politics for more than 30 years. During the 90’s he produced “The Parxist Conspiracy” TV newsmagazine and currently writes Parx New Daily’s on-line news, commentary and analysis blog, “got windmills?”

* Steve Petranik has been an editor and reporter for more than three decades, and now is the editor of Hawaii Business magazine. He has reported from six countries on three continents and his stories have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He spent 18 years as an editor at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and five years at the Honolulu Advertiser before joining Hawaii Business in January 2009.

* Nancy Cook Lauer has worked for newspapers in four major U.S. media companies: Scripps Howard, Knight Ridder, Gannett and currently Stephens Media’s West Hawaii Today. Lauer is currently vice president and Neighbor Island representative for the Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists-Hawaii. She has won numerous awards, including a state first-place for government reporting from SPJ, a national first-place award from CapitolBeat and national news writing awards. Her blog, All Hawaii News, won first place in the SPJ-Hawaii solo news blog category this year. She holds a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in psychology from Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Va., and a master’s degree in library and information sciences from Florida State University.

* Hugh Clark spent 46 years working in jobs from a California weekly to editorships in Texas and Nevada and working in five states after receiving his degree in 1964 from Humboldt State University in California. He was Big Island bureau chief for the Honolulu Advertiser from 1971-2002. He helped found the Big Island Press Club.

* Brenda Salgado is a University of Hawaii Manoa grad (’88) who has been at KGMB in Honolulu since 1985 as an associate producer, weekend assignment editor/producer, hired fulltime in ’88 after graduation as assignment editor. In addition to managing daily news gathering, she works on special projects and various investigative projects.

* Loren Mitchell took his first reporting job during the summer after sophomore year at Emory & Henry College where he studied journalism and in 1983 graduated with a degree in Mass Communications/English. He was hired as a reporter with the Tazewell County (Va.) Free Press where he had worked that one summer and during the next 15 years would rise to the position of editor and eventually owner and publisher. He has been teaching writing at Hawaii Community College since 2005.

* Steven Strauss is originally from San Diego, and practiced intellectual property law in California before relocating to East Hawaii in 1989 and starting his own law practice. Currently, Steve focuses on civil and criminal trial work, business development, environmental law and intellectual property. He has presented seminars and workshops in copyright, image protection, trade infringement and civil rights and represented clients in defamation actions in state and federal courts. Strauss obtained his law degree in 1986 from the University of San Diego, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego with majors in chemistry and literature.

* Sen. Les Ihara, Jr. (D-Kaimuki/Palolo) is a 25-year veteran of the Hawaii Legislature, and the senate’s Majority Policy Leader since 2006. Considered the leading good government advocate in the Legislature, Ihara has sponsored legislation to increase government transparency, coordinated a successful lawsuit to prohibit serial communications, and organized freedom of information audits as Government Watch chair of the Honolulu Community-Media Council. He graduated from Mid Pacific Institute and the University of Hawaii.

* Cheryl Kakazu Park, J.D., M.B.A., was appointed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie in April 2011 to serve as the director of the Office of Information Practices. A 1981 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, Park obtained her Masters of Business Administration from the University of Hawaii Manoa in 1982. After nearly 19 years of living and traveling abroad and on the mainland, Park returned in 2011 to Hawaii, where she was born and raised.

* Jennifer Brooks has been a staff attorney at the Office of Information Practices since 2000. She has given numerous presentations on the Uniform Information Practices Act and the Sunshine Law and has participated in the Freedom of Information Week ActionLine program. Brooks has also taken part in the state’s informal HIPAA task force and the Revitalization Task Force of the Hawaii State Bar Association Government Lawyers Section. Brooks earned her law degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. She also received a bachelor’s (A.B.) degree in English from Harvard University and a master’s (M.Phil.) degree in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin.

* Dr. Rick Castberg is a professor emeritus of political science at University of Hawaii-Hilo, with an extensive background in academia at UHH; California State​​ ​University, Los Angeles; Northwestern ​University; Roosevelt University; and as a Fulbright specialist lecturer at Nagoya and Nanzan Universities in Japan. Among the books he has written are ​Cases on Constitutional Law (co-authored with Victor G. Rosenblum), Japanese Criminal Justice, and “Murder in Paradise” (co-authored with Chris Loos).

* Baron Sekiya has been involved in journalism for more than 28 years and is founder/publisher fro Hawaii 24/7. He has worked on assignment for and been published with numerous local, regional and national publications, in addition to Oahu TV stations and newspapers. Originally from Honolulu, Sekiya worked for West Hawaii Today and North Hawaii News from September 1990 until November 2008 where he won numerous state and national awards for photography. Sekiya has worked in the Office of the Mayor, County of Hawaii, as a Multi-Media Development Specialist. He is currently the President of Na Leo O Hawaii public access television and serves on the board of directors for the Big Island Press Club.

* Karin Stanton is the editor of Hawaii 24/7, an independent news website founded with Baron Sekiya in 2008, and also serves as the Associated Press stringer for the Big Island. Stanton earned her journalism degree at Western Washington University and has more than 20 years reporting/editing experience at daily and weekly newspapers, as well as magazines. She has won multiple awards, most recently sweeping all three spots in the Online Feature Writing category of the 2010 SPJ Hawaii chapter Excellence in Journalism Contest.

Moderators

* Jay Hartwell has been since 1997 the faculty advisor to student media at the University of Hawaii at Manoa: Ka Leo O Hawaii newspaper; Hawaii Review literary magazine; and from 1998-2005 KTUH FM radio station. His 1996 book “Na Mamo: Hawaiian People Today” won Book of the Year honors from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association. He was a general assignment reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser from 1980-1988. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

* Peter Serafin was the editor of Hawaii Island Journal, worked in Tokyo as a reporter for The Japan Times and Billboardmagazine, and has written freelance for the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications here and abroad. His feature story “BJ Penn: Outside the Octagon” (Honolulu Magazine, October, 2010) won the Society of Professional Journalists award for Best Magazine Sportswriting. He currently divides his time between the Big Island and Japan.

* Stephanie Salazar is considered a ‘veteran’ radio newscaster, starting with KIPA 620 radio while a UH Hilo student. Salazar’s news experience includes an internship at the Tribune Herald, as a stringer for the Honolulu Advertiser’s Big Island Bureau, as news director for KBIG-FM, Big Island Radio, KHBC, etc. She contributes daily news reports to Big Island Video News, and occasional contributions to Hawaii Public radio.

* Sherry Bracken, a Hawaii Island resident since 1994, hosts the weekly interview show Island Issues that airs Sunday mornings on LAVA 105.3 fm and on KKOA 107.7 fm. She also does the Community Corner daily event updates on both stations. Sherry has been the Hawaii Island news reporter for Hawaii Public Radio since 2005. She has moderated dozens of candidate forums for candidates for local, state and federal offices.

* Kathleen Frankovic spent more than three decades at CBS News as the point person for the CBS News Poll and the CBS News polling collaboration with The New York Times. As director of surveys and a producer at CBS News, she was responsible for the design, management and reporting of those polls, working with journalists and frequently appearing on television and radio as an analyst of poll results. She has served as president of the World Association for Public Opinion and the American Association for Public Opinion, and was presented with the 2008 AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement, the association’s highest honor. She has taught at Cornell University, Douglass College and Hunter College and was a Professional In Residence at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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