Contact: Muriel Banares or
Carmen Ramos Chandler ,
(818) 677-2130
mbanares@exec.csun.edu

CSUN and George Washington University to Host
National Conference on Tabloidization

This and other questions will be examined on Thursday, May 6, in "News vs. Entertainment: Does It Matter if the Line Disappears?," a two-hour live bicoastal satellite conference. The conference will be broadcast from Cal State Northridge's Oviatt Library and George Washington University from 10 a.m. to noon Pacific Time.

Conference panelists from the East Coast include ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson and noted journalist Steven Roberts.

West Coast panelists are Robert J. Dowling, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter; Andy Friendly, president of First Run Programming and Production and King World Productions; Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times television critic and Fran Shea, E! Entertainment Television president.

The program is free and will be available to all colleges and universities throughout North America. Students with questions will be able to fax panelists in Northridge and Washington, D.C. during the live program.

In addition, the Inaugural Kenneth S. Devol First Amendment Forum Dinner will examine the First Amendment implications on the topic of tabloidization in journalism on May 5 at 6 p.m. in the Warner Center Woodland Hills Marriot.

For information, call the Department of Journalism at (818) 677-3135.