How can a publication last in today’s economic climate? How much must print publications rely on the Internet to last? Where are the jobs, and what does it mean to be a journalist today?
Panelists: Carl Bialik, Ben Greenman, Bradley Peniston, Cynthia Watchtell
Given recent innovations in the field of journalism – Tumblr, Twitter, aggregation websites like the Huffington Post, and the hyperlocal-journalism sites like Patch.com – we have to ask ourselves: Can anyone with a smart phone be a journalist? What does that mean for local journalism?
Panelists: Stephen Lange Ranzini, Helen Bennett (New Haven Register), Vincent Vitkowsky (Advocate)
About The Yale Herald 25th Anniversary Alumni
Carl Bialik is best known for his work for The Wall Street Journal, where he founded and writes the weekly Number Guy column about the use and (particularly) misuse of numbers and statistics in the news and advocacy. Bialik also writes for the Journal and WSJ.com about numbers and statistics in sports. Bialik is a co-founder of Gelf Magazine where he hosts the monthly Varsity Letters sports reading series.
Ben Greenman was editor-in-chief of the Yale Herald in the Fall of 1988. He is an editor at The New Yorker, and has been with the magazine since 2000. Over the past decade he has published the various story collections such as Superbad, A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both, and Correspondences, as well as the novels Superworse and Please Step Back.
Stephen Lange Ranzini is the President and Chairman of University Bank. During his time at Yale, he was involved with starting two publications including the Yale Herald. Most recently, Lange Ranzini has helped launch an online digital media company, www.annarbor.com.
Bradley Peniston was editor-in-chief of the Yale Herald in the Fall of 1990 and is currently the editor of Armed Forces Journal, a monthly journal of opinion and analysis for military leaders. Since Yale, Peniston has written multiple books, founded the newsroom of Military.com, and has been an international editor of Defense News, a weekly newspaper about defense policy and procurement.
Cynthia Wachtell earned a joint BA/MA at Yale, and went on to receive a Ph.D in the History of American Civilization from Harvard. She is a professor of American Studies and the founding director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at the Yeshiva University in New York. Her book, War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, was published last year.