UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A two-day session with educators, media professionals and policymakers from across Pennsylvania will convene to address the challenges focusing local journalism and explore ways to strengthen its future.
The Keystone News Summit will be held May 15-16 in Harrisburg. The lineup of nearly three dozen speakers includes a Penn State faculty member and an alumna as participants gather to move toward workable solutions to shrinking newsroom budgets, staffing cutbacks and the impact on public trust in local news.
The two-day summit at the Harrisburg Hilton is open to educators, elected officials and non- and for-profit media professionals. Sessions begin at 9 a.m. each day. A full schedule, more information and registration information may be found at the Keystone Media Summit website.
Maggie Messitt, the Norman Eberly Professor of Practice in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, and alumna Halle Stockton, executive director and editor-in-chief of Public Source, a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region, will be among the speakers.
Host organizations for the Keystone News Summit include the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the Philadelphia-based Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Penn State and communications centers or departments from several institutions of higher education from across Pennsylvania, including Duquesne University, Lehigh University, Point Park University and Temple University.