Citizen Journalism and OlympicsWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

• Citizen Journalism and its role to the Olympic communications

Dan Gillmor Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Gillmor also directs the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. A nationally recognized leader in new media, Gillmor is author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People,” a book that explains the rise of citizens’ media and why it matters. He served as a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and worked at the Detroit Free Press, the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont

• The business sector of the Olympic news reporting

Andrew Leckey The first Director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

He is a long-time syndicated investment columnist for The Chicago Tribune. He was previously a CNBC anchor, editor of the Random House anthology series The Best Business Stories of the Year and contributing editor to Quicken.com. The first Director of the Bloomberg Business Journalism Program at the University of California, Berkeley, Leckey is author or editor of 10 financial books.

• How to prepare for & deal with crisis during the Beijing Olympic Games

Xu Wu Assistant Professor, Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Dr. Wu received both his doctoral (2005) and master’s degrees (2002) from the University of Florida, with specializations in political communication and international public relations.His research interests center on China’s online media order, international public relations, crisis management, public diplomacy, political communication and mass communication theories.

Arizona State University, USA

March 13th, 2008, 2:00pm – 4:00pm,

Room 204, Omnicom Building, School of Journalism and Communication

Host: Center for International Communications Studies