Award-winning Blogger Josh Marshall to Speak September 16

09/09/08

Few journalists have caused the resignation of a member of the president's cabinet; fewer still have done so by blogging. Josh Marshall and colleagues at the Talking Points Memo/TPM Muckraker blogs won this year's Polk Award in legal reporting for their relentless coverage of the politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys by the White House. The coverage by TPM and others led to Congressional hearings and the ultimate resignation of attorney general Alberto Gonzales.

Marshall will speak at Ithaca College on Tuesday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites on the importance of independent media in this era of technological change and crisis in the mainstream media. He is keynoting the first symposium of the Park Center for Independent Media -- convening independent media leaders and experts to campus from across the country.

Josh Marshall built his blog network from a one-person operation into one of the most important journalistic sites on the Internet -- with a growing staff and active readers who support and contribute to its investigations. He has been credited with "reinventing investigative reporting" by emphasizing "collaboration over competition and working with readers and through collective weight of many news sources to expose government misconduct." In 1982, Marshall's persistent coverage on Talking Points of racist remarks by senator Trent Lott was a factor in Lott's resignation as the Senate's minority leader.

Launched in 2008, the Park Center for Independent Media is a national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. Located within Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications, the center's mission is to study the growing independent media sector, encourage career paths inside independent outlets, and examine the impact that maverick, entrepreneurial, and independent institutions have on journalism, politics, and culture.

Park Center for Independent Media

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