{"id":13,"date":"2011-01-20T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T03:56:28","slug":"the-invitation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/the-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for saying \u201cyes\u201d to being part of the Fetzer Institute Advisory Group on Journalism that Matters.<\/p>\n<p>Among you are professionals in print, broadcast, new media,\u00a0community media, the business of journalism, and the academics of journalism.\u00a0 You come from traditional and independent media, covering the U.S. geographically, and reflecting at least some age, race, and gender diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some details about the meeting, including a few requests of you (in bold to spot them easily).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019ll meet from<strong> Thursday, April 28 at 3:30pm \u2013 Saturday, April 30, at noon<\/strong>.\u00a0 Jo Rewers from Fetzer will e-mail you information about arranging your transportation.\u00a0 (Please note, if you\u2019re on the West coast, you may need to arrive on April 27.)<\/li>\n<li>Our agenda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pre-meeting assignment (more on this soon)<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Thursday afternoon<\/span>: introductions\/what brings you here?<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Friday<\/span>: Journalism that Matters: Inspiring Conversations among Emerging Media Leaders<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll use a process that sets the specific agenda around what\u2019s important to you (to know more about the process, look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.org\/cgi\/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace\" target=\"_blank\">Open Space Technology<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Saturday am<\/span>: Next Steps (continue with a process in which you determine the specifics)<\/p>\n<p>Our long term purpose is to engage in a dialogue about a future for media that reconnects it to the best of its fundamental roots and imagines its potential for shaping\u00a0the future.\u00a0\u00a0 Our focus for this meeting is to create connections among us, forming a strong Advisory Group and inspiring next steps, likely to include a by-invitation conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>***\u00a0 Please send a short bio to share with your fellow participants. ***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We know everyone of you has dedicated time to the future of journalism.\u00a0 Thank you for your enthusiasm and commitment to this work,<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Silha and Peggy Holman<\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0 Within the next few days we&#8217;ll\u00a0send you some\u00a0information\u00a0on spending\u00a0about 45 minutes in conversation with another participant sometime before our meeting.\u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! Thank you for saying \u201cyes\u201d to being part of the Fetzer Institute Advisory Group on Journalism that Matters. Among you are professionals in print, broadcast, new media,\u00a0community media, the business of journalism, and the academics of journalism.\u00a0 You come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/the-invitation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}