Protecting a Free Press while Journalism is in Turmoil
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
at the Gerald R. Ford Library
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GIL KLEIN Moderator Gil Klein is director of the National Press Club's Centennial Forums. For 22 years he was a national correspondent with the Media General News Service, writing for 25 newspapers in the Southeast including The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Tampa Tribune and The Winston-Salem Journal. He was National Press Club president in 1994 and wrote the Club's centennial history, Reliable Sources: 100 Years at the National Press Club. |
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DICK RYAN |
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JONATHAN WOLMAN |
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OMARI GARDNER Omari Gardner is news editor/digital media at the Detroit Free Press. He joined the Free Press’ copy desk in 1999 after working at the Tallahassee Democrat as a copy editor. He became an assistant business editor in 2005. He joined the Web department in 2006 while as the Free Press began growing its digital operation in earnest. |
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MARLA DRUTZ Marla Drutz was named Vice President and General Manager of WDIV-TV Detroit in 2008. Drutz joined the WDIV Local 4 family after spending 19 years at WXYZ-TV where she was Director of Programming and Special Projects for the E.W. Scripps Company. Drutz has received numerous professional awards including Emmy Awards, first-place awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and a “Top Woman in Management” Award from the Detroit Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. She was selected as one of Detroit’s “Top 40 Under 40” by Crain’s Detroit Business. Drutz was also selected by Corp! Magazine as one of Michigan’s Top Businesswomen. |