What Can Computer Games Teach Journalists?
Keynote Remarks by: Glenn Thomas Co-Founder, Smashing Ideas, Inc. Thursday, August 8, 2002, 11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Miami Beach, FL Schaffer: Good afternoon and welcome to the fourth annual Pew Center luncheon here at AEJMC and probably our last as we morph into a new project. Although hopefully next year we’ll have a different luncheon in a different center. I’m Jan Schaffer. I’m the Director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. I know we have to move through the program fast because many of you have to be on panel discussions, so I wanted to sort of, while you are eating, please morph into an introduction of the Civic Journalism Interest Group, with which the Pew Center has worked these many long years and had a very good relationship. Sharon Iorio is the president of that group this year, from Wichita State. And they wanted to say a few words to our crowd before we move into our main program. So Sharon, do you want to come up now? Iorio: Thank you, Jan, for giving us some time at
