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Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community
Date(s): 11/4/2009Start Time: 3:30 pm
End Time: 5:30 pm
URL: http://
Price: Free
Location: Arkansas Union
Street: University of Arkansas
City: Fayetteville
Contact: Steve Voorhies
Contact Email: voorhies@uark.edu
Contact Phone: 479.575.3583
Marjorie Rosen, a writer and journalism professor from New York, will talk about her book, "Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community," in the Multicultural Center of the Arkansas Union at the University of Arkansas.
Her visit is being coordinated through the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism and the program in Latin American and Latino studies, both in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
Boom Town is Rosen's account of how, since Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton arrived in Bentonville in 1950, the region has changed from an area of mostly white Christians to include African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Marshall Islanders and the fastest-growing Latino population in the country.
Rosen explores the social, political and cultural character of the United States through the microcosm of northwest Arkansas and the personal stories of its people.
The Fog of New Media
Date(s): 11/4/2009 - 11/6/2009Start Time: 9:30 am
End Time: 11:30 am
Price: Free
Location: University of Arkansas
City: Fayetteville
Contact: Steve Voorhies
Contact Email: voorhies@uark.edu
Contact Phone: 479.575.3583
A panel of working online journalists will discuss The Fog of New Media during a three-day forum, Nov. 4-6, hosted by the Walter J. Lemke department of journalism in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas.
The panel members include Matthew Waite, the senior news technologist at the St. Petersburg Times and designer of PolitiFact, the first stand-alone Web site to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; Michelle Malashock, the Web content editor at The Morning News; Gordon Witkin, managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity; and Conan Gallaty, the online director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The panel discussion will be held at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Donald W. Reynolds Center Auditorium.
The panel is one of three featured events of When the Ink Runs Dry: A Forum on the Future of the News Business. The forum is funded in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. All events are open to the public, and faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.
A Glimpse of the Future presents three videos produced by the Washington, D.C.-based Newseum. The videos are part of a 10-part television series, The Future of News, which is set to air in early 2010 and features lively, cutting-edge conversations with well-known journalists and new media pioneers about the evolution of news reporting in an Internet age, according to the Newseum Web site. The videos will be shown at 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Kimpel Hall Room 111.
Advice for the Future, a student-moderated question and answer session with Matthew Waite and Gordon Witkin, will take place at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in Kimpel Hall Room 111. The session will be videotaped to air on UATV.
