Who Needs Ink? March 30, 2006

THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS

Will the future of print news be written in ink... or HTML code? Will competition from the Internet, broadcast and information repositories doom the journalism that newspapers have provided to broad groups of readers? Is traditional journalism essential, or on the way to obsolescence? The McClatchy Company's purchase of Knight Ridder for a whopping $4.5 billion in stocks and cash shows the financial stakes are enormous. What do financial analysts see around the corner for print media? Experts in the field tackle these questions and more.

6:30 p.m., Registration | 7:00 p.m., Program | City Hall, City Council Meeting Rooms 119-120, 200 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose | $10 for Members, $15 for Non-members, free for Students

Co-sponsored by Knight Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San Jose State University; media sponsor: Metro Newspaper.