Journalism Program Series:
Blaine Harden, Donald Macintyre & Gwen Robinson;
"The State of Journalism"

The speech and Q & A will be in English.

Join veteran journalists Blaine Harden, of The Washington Post, Gwen Robinson, The Financial Times and Donald Macintyre, Time magazine's Seoul bureau chief between 2001 and 2006, to discuss the true state of journalism today.

Should we give in to the doom and gloom predictions of the death of journalism? After all, more than 15,000 journalists were laid off in 2008 in the United States alone. Remarkably, that number is just among newspapers -- and few people remark on the alarmingly high numbers because the layoffs are carried out en-masse.

Reporters also need to be able to do a lot more today. Now, we are expected to multitask: We write the pieces, take the photos, sub-edit the pages, write another story for the paper's Web site and engage with video news. Many journalists are doing a lot more phone conferences than face-to-face interviews because it saves time and money. Deadlines have always existed, but now the workload is bigger than ever before.

Don't miss this opportunity to find out about the true state of journalism from our distinguished panel.

Gwen Robinson, Donald Macintyre & Blaine Harden