Poytner/Kent State Workshop to Look at Rules for Bloggers

By: E&P Staff The Poynter Kent State Media Ethics Workshop is going to take place on Sept. 18 at the Kent State main campus in Ohio. This year, the fourth annual conference theme is "Whose Rules?" which will focus on online ethics for bloggers.

Several speakers are lined up including New York University's Jay Rosen -- who will deliver the key note -- blogger and former Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget, The Plain Dealer Editor Susan Goldberg, Poynter's Kelly McBride and Bob Steele, and former newspaper analyst Lauren Rich Fine, now affiliated with Kent State.

The workshop will tackle such subjects as the landscape for online media, the definition of a journalist, and the future of traditional media in an online world.

The conference starts at 9 and will end at 4 p.m. Registration is $50. For more details, go here.