Dear Davis Center affiliates,
This week the Davis Center is serving as the local host for the U.S.-Russia Bilateral
Presidential Commission's U.S.-Russia Conference on Mass Media. The aim of this event
is to bring together media leaders from both countries for professional information
exchange and collaboration, reaching beyond the notion of traditional news media to
include film and the digital, social media, as well. (For more about the Commission,
please see
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/rs/usrussiabilat/index.htm)
We're very pleased to be able to offer Davis Center affiliates the opportunity to
attend the formal sessions of the conference. They will take place March 3–4 at the
Norton's Woods Conference Center of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 200
Beacon Street, Somerville.
If you cannot attend the conference, the panels will also be webcast. Please see the
attached PDF for details.
The conference schedule is outlined below. You need not RSVP, but please contact us
(daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-495-4037) if
you have any questions.
Regards,
Davis Center Staff
U.S.–Russia Conference on Mass Media
March 3–4, 2011
Norton’s Woods Conference Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts
under the aegis of
The U.S.–Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission
Working Group on Education, Culture, Sports and Mass Media
Sub–Working Group on Mass Media
and
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,
Harvard University
Thursday, March 3
8:30 a.m. Formal Opening
9:00–10:30 a.m. Joint U.S.-Russian presentation on “the Evolving Business of Media” (to be
webcast, with students in both the U.S. and Russia participating).
Azer Mursaliyev, Editor-in-Chief, Kommersant Publishing House
Jean M. Prewitt, President and CEO, Independent Film and Television Alliance
Konstantin Remchukov, Editor-in-Chief and Owner, Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Anna Robertson, Director of Original Video & Social Media, News and Information,
Yahoo! Inc.
Nikolay Uskov, Editor-in-Chief, GQ Russia magazine
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Joint U.S.-Russian presentation on “the Evolving Profession of
Journalism”
Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists
Joe Bergantino, Director, The New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Vladislav Fronin, Editor-in-Chief, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
Pavel Gusev, Editor-in-Chief, Moskovskiy Komsomolets
Eric Newton, Vice President for Journalism Program, Knight Foundation
Mikhail Ponomaryov, Editor-in-Chief, Information Programs, Directorate of Information
Programs, TV-Center
Marguerite Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Media Assistance, NED
Friday, March 4
8:30–10:00 a.m. Joint U.S.-Russian presentation on “New Media Technologies”
Nargiz Asadova, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Echo Moskvy radio
Rob Baker, Director, Universities for Ushahidi program
Mikhail Kotov, Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta.ru<http://Gazeta.ru/>
Angelika Petrochenko, General Manager for San-Francisco office, SUP
Rey Ramsey, President and CEO, TechNet
Michael Stanton, Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Blackboard, Inc.
Amy Webb, CEO and Principal Consultant, Webbmedia Group
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