Center for Independent Media President to Kick off Web Conference
january 22, 2010 01:30 pm
David Bennahum will kick off AAN's 2010 Web Publishing Conference with a keynote address on the rise of new media amidst the collapse of the newspaper industry. Bennahum has been following new media since 1994, when he began writing for
Wired magazine; additional reporting of his on the rise of the internet and its impact on our culture has been published in
The New York Times,
New York magazine, and
The Economist. His
Center for Independent Media, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, publishes six public-interest news sites around the country (many of which feature alt-weekly alums as reporters). Bennahum's talk will be Thursday, Jan. 28 at 9:15 am, kicking off a day and a half of intensive web publishing programming. For more details on the conference,
click here.