Al Gore to headline We Media conference

September 8, 2005 by

Former Vice President Al Gore will be the keynote speaker at The Media Center’s October 5 We Media conference in New York City.

The day-long event will gather leading media analysts to discuss the Internet’s effects on mass collaboration, including lectures on citizen journalism, activism and democracy, the business of collaboration, and media watching.

Hosted by the Associated Press at its world headquarters, the symposium will also feature speakers Craig Newmark of craigslist.org; CBS Digital Media President Larry Kramer; and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

The Media Center is a non-profit think tank affiliated with the American Press Institute.

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About Karl-Erik Stromsta

Karl-Erik -- who has a master's in print journalism from the University of Southern California -- is a fellow in the Carnegie-Knight foundation's News21 initiative. He has written for Dow Jones Newswires, the Daily Breeze, Los Angeles Alternative and others. Before moving to Los Angeles, he studied biology at Michigan State University and taught English in France.